Malcolm Arnold

From the classic WWII film from 1957 Bridge on the River Kwai, here is Malcolm Arnold's famous march that incorporates Kenneth Alford's Colonel Bogey March along with Arnold's original counterline mel...

From the classic WWII film from 1957 Bridge on the River Kwai, here is Malcolm Arnold's famous march that incorporates Kenneth Alford's Colonel Bogey March along with Arnold's original counterline mel...

Originally entitled 'Flourish for a 21st Birthday' (opus 44) the work was scored for 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani and 3 percussion. This new version for concert band by M...

A rarely performed gem, this 1952 one-act comic opera by Malcolm Arnold is adapted from William Wycherley’s ‘The Gentleman Dancing Master. The plot follows the heroine, Miranda and her two suitors: a...

Malcolm Arnold is well known to brass players as a composer of often extrovert sounding music specially suited to the bright colors obtainable from brass instruments. . .The first symphony that was wr...

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(2): cyms/BD/SD/tam-t/glsp/tamb/xyl/cast - harp - strings

Writtend for the 1956 Hoffnung Festival this piece is really the stuff of legend. Features solo efforts by 3 Vacuum Cleaners, 1 lonely Floor-Polisher and 4 Rifles.

Premierd by Leon Goosens under the direction of Boyd Neel in June 1953.