Malcolm Arnold's music is always amazingly, even when composing film music, he never wrote a bad work, he needs to be celebrated much more than he does!
I'm almost afraid of the limp, non-committal "celebration" we'll get. At a sad guess, he'll be "Composer of the Week" on Radio 3, he'll turn up once or twice at the 2021 Proms - probably "A Grand, Grand Overture" will get wheeled out again on the last night for everyone to have a good old laugh, then he'll drift back into obscurity again... What would I give for a live symphony cycle...
A symphonic cycle at the Proms wouldn't be more than Malcolm Arnold deserves after all these decades of scandalous neglect by the BBC and the UK's concert and orchestra managers. I saw Arnold's 2nd performed at the 1994 Proms and it was so well received I thought it was bound to lead to more of his symphonies being scheduled. Twenty-four years later I'm still waiting for the next one.
Don't get me started! The BBC sit on so much wonderful archive and knowledge, yet if it weren't for the good guys like Martin Handley, Donald Macleod and a few others, we'd be left with little else but popular hackneyed listening on Radio 3. Sarah Walker's Sunday morning programme is quite far reaching and plays Arnold works, but alas, Through The Night and the Afternoon on 3 schedules and some live evening concerts are the only places we get to hear complete works now. Everywhere else on R3 is just clock-watching played-to-fit material. Thank you for this magnificent recording. The atmosphere and support for Sir Malcolm is so palpably clear!
No one quite like Arnold - a force of nature challenging to an establishment dedicated to cancelling cultural strength and verve. A wonderful composer taking forward in style the tradition of Walton - and a phenomenal composer of incidental music - especially film music - a ‘natural’ giant in that genre. A lovely generous natured man too!
I'm familiar with a lot of orchestral music by Sir Malcolm, but this one was new to me. And I loved it!! Wonderful music, and marvellously played by both orchestra and conductor, a great fan of Sir Malcolm too! Thanks ever so much for giving me an opportunity to hear this magnificent piece!!!
You have to play fast to break the sound barrier wait sound can never travel faster than the speed of sound unless you are in a jet plane relative to the earth
Still another delightful Arnold overture I hadn't heard before! Thanks for the opportunity to hear and see this performance, and for the time you invested in uploading it.
This is fun music for a 1952 British movie of the same name. Sadly the film, while well made, is incorrect in its implication that an English aviator was the first to go faster than the speed of sound. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_Barrier
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Malcolm Arnold's music is always amazingly, even when composing film music, he never wrote a bad work, he needs to be celebrated much more than he does!
Roll on 2021 and Malcolm Arnold's centenary, one year at least when we should be guaranteed to hear his music in the concert halls.
I'm almost afraid of the limp, non-committal "celebration" we'll get. At a sad guess, he'll be "Composer of the Week" on Radio 3, he'll turn up once or twice at the 2021 Proms - probably "A Grand, Grand Overture" will get wheeled out again on the last night for everyone to have a good old laugh, then he'll drift back into obscurity again...
What would I give for a live symphony cycle...
A symphonic cycle at the Proms wouldn't be more than Malcolm Arnold deserves after all these decades of scandalous neglect by the BBC and the UK's concert and orchestra managers. I saw Arnold's 2nd performed at the 1994 Proms and it was so well received I thought it was bound to lead to more of his symphonies being scheduled. Twenty-four years later I'm still waiting for the next one.
1:55 Malcolm played trumpet with the LSO and BBC SO
Don't get me started! The BBC sit on so much wonderful archive and knowledge, yet if it weren't for the good guys like Martin Handley, Donald Macleod and a few others, we'd be left with little else but popular hackneyed listening on Radio 3. Sarah Walker's Sunday morning programme is quite far reaching and plays Arnold works, but alas, Through The Night and the Afternoon on 3 schedules and some live evening concerts are the only places we get to hear complete works now. Everywhere else on R3 is just clock-watching played-to-fit material. Thank you for this magnificent recording. The atmosphere and support for Sir Malcolm is so palpably clear!
No one quite like Arnold - a force of nature challenging to an establishment dedicated to cancelling cultural strength and verve. A wonderful composer taking forward in style the tradition of Walton - and a phenomenal composer of incidental music - especially film music - a ‘natural’ giant in that genre. A lovely generous natured man too!
I'm familiar with a lot of orchestral music by Sir Malcolm, but this one was new to me. And I loved it!! Wonderful music, and marvellously played by both orchestra and conductor, a great fan of Sir Malcolm too! Thanks ever so much for giving me an opportunity to hear this magnificent piece!!!
Great. Sound Barrier is also popular among wind orchestra fans/players in Japan!
You have to play fast to break the sound barrier wait sound can never travel faster than the speed of sound unless you are in a jet plane relative to the earth
Still another delightful Arnold overture I hadn't heard before! Thanks for the opportunity to hear and see this performance, and for the time you invested in uploading it.
ronald b woodall You're very welcome! Normally I wouldn't bother with a tape that was as badly knackered as this one... but this is just special.
アーノルドはシンフォニー含め素晴らしい作曲家。
The very end is rather an anticlimax. "Boom".
Well, it's the sonic boom.
This is fun music for a 1952 British movie of the same name. Sadly the film, while well made, is incorrect in its implication that an English aviator was the first to go faster than the speed of sound. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_Barrier