Malcolm Arnold

A cantata for chorus and orchestra written specifically with young performers in mind. English poet Patrick Dickinson sets the story of Odysseus returning for Penelope, with Arnold's music serving the...

The concerto has a dashing first movement marked by jazz memories and a lento whose wistful melancholy also suggests the sentimental lyrical style of the 1930s. The leap from this to the crude whoopin...

Contemporary-music-without-tears has always been his aim, and this succinct little three-movement work showed him as skilful as ever in unpretentious directness of utterance, as it were in the vernacu...

... a 17-minute, three-movement work in which orchestra suits and colours are dealt with concision, wit, fluency and light-fingered skill... Gillian Widdicombe, Financial Times, November 1976 Instrume...

... has a genuine music-hall flavour, with lots of gusto, a winning waltz theme, an Offenbachian can-can and even twittering bird effects in the tuneful pot-pourri towards the end of the suite. Ivan M...

... has an enchatingly gentle Ravelian slow movement, and an outrageously jazzy finale which was encored at its Proms premiere - understandably as it centres on one of Arnold's most infectious tunes.....

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4000 - strings

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(3): t.bells/glsp/cyms/tam-t/BD - strings

Instrumentation: 1.picc.2.2.2 - 2200 - timp - strings

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Cymbals, Side drum, Bass drum, Triangle. Tambourine, Glockenspie...

Whistle Down The Wind, Small Suite For Small Orchestra, is three-movement suite Prelude, The Three Kings, Finale played as one continuous piece. Its melodic charm and instrumentation, including vibrap...

Full score. Music from Hobson's Choice, Film Suite, composed 1992. Duration 17 minutes.

Exploits for Orchestra. Comedy Suite, composed 1991.

Full Score. Composed 1991. Duration 24 minutes.

Fantasy on Christmas Carols'.

One of the towering musical figures of the 20th century, Sir Malcolm Arnold has a remarkable catalogue of major concert works to his credit, including nine symphonies, seven ballets, two operas, one m...

The Sound Barrier Rhapsody was composed in 1952. It is made up of five sections.

Scored for 12 toy instruments, piano and strings. Composed 1957.