Malcolm Arnold

Sarabande And Polka are two dances, written in 1956 by Malcolm Arnold. Together with his English Dances, they formed the music for Solitaire, a new ballet by the British dancerand choreographer Sir K...

Premiered at the British Music Information Centre by Richard Deering.

Malcolm Arnold completed this piano sonata in August 1942 when he was just 20 years old. He took up the trumpet at the age of 12 after seeing Louis Armstrong perform in a concert in Bournemouth. Five...

'Peterloo' is the derisive name given to an incident on 16th August 1819, in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, when an orderly crowd of some 8,000 people met to hear a speech on political reform. On the...

Malcolm Arnold's score to David Lean's 1954 film, Hobson's Choice, was one of three collaborations between the composer and director. It's a story of Henry Hobson, played by Charles Laughton, who runs...

For almost two centuries, the enduring legend of the maniacal barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd, and his savoury human pies has inspired terror in the hearts and minds of the public, whether throug...

Malcolm Arnold's one act ballet score Homage To The Queen was commissioned in 1953 by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to celebrate the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The ballet wa...

Written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the legendary oboist Leon Goossens, and first performed by him and the Carter Trio in 1958, this delightful 13-minute quartet is a fine showcase of Malcol...

This is the cadenza for the first movement to the Clarinet Concerto No. 2 written by Christopher Palmer and Thea King.

This setting of a seasonal text by Mary Wilson is for unaccompanied mixed chorus. It would be an attractive addition to a Christmas choral concert.

Arnold Malcolm Prelude Sicillano And Rondo Wind Ensemble Score Only

... a piece full of colourful ideas, including many good tunes, with the three shepherds for example treated to a gallumphine song in the style of music-hall and with Susanna's Dance bringing angliciz...