CD, Arnold (composer)
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Shibe performs with superb artistry some of the now classics that Bream inspired...Prime in any such catalogue is Britten's 1963 Nocturnal after John Dowland, and Shibe gathers the listener... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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Special offer. Malcolm Arnold: The Dancing Master
Mark Wilde, Ed Lyon, Fiona Kimm, Graeme Broadbent, Catherine Carby, Eleanor Dennis
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews
This premiere recording from conductor John Andrews, a vivacious cast and BBC Concert Orchestra is dollops of fun, and more besides. Arnold’s inventive, eclectic score is vividly brought to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Opera
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Special offer. Malcolm Arnold Overtures
RecommendedKathy Jones (principal vacuum cleaner), Helena Miles (sub principal vacuum cleaner), Chris Hoyle (section vacuum cleaner), Fiona Macintosh (principal floor polisher)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Arnold's genius was particularly suited to smallscale orchestral works, and every one of these examples shows his orchestral personality at its exuberant best. Beckus the Dandipratt came first,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Arnold: English & Irish Dances, Scottish & Chamber Dances and Sarabande & Polka
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Arnold
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British Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Norman Del Mar, John Pritchard, Lennox Berkeley, William Alwyn, Josef Krips
this is a very significant release which really deserves to be snapped up by everyone, not least those who still cling to the discredited belief that when it comes to composing symphonies, Britain... —
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Malcolm Arnold - Homage to the Queen & Sweeney Todd (complete ballets)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
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The Music of Malcolm Arnold
James Orford, Edward Picton-Turbervill (piano), Cameron Richardson-Eames, Jack Liebeck (violin), Alexander Sitkovetsky, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
There’s an appealing directness to Arnold’s music, aided in the choral selections here by crystal-clear diction and hearty performances. The non-choral items are a knockout, too, most notably... —
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The Dowland is immediately compelling, both intimate and, yes, orchestrally conceived: the range of dynamics in Forlorne Hope Fancy is especially HIP-less…But the highlight by far is Hancher’s... —
