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Alex Bozman

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December 06, 2023, 02:40:45 PM
Quote from: relm1 on December 01, 2023, 05:40:39 AMI also like the Philharmonic Concerto which I think is from the same period and feels like a symphony, perhaps a concerto for orchestra given its title. 
Agree about the Philharmonic Concerto. It's quite a gritty piece and packs a lot into a fairly short time span.

Roasted Swan

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December 06, 2023, 11:04:16 PM Last Edit: March 14, 2025, 11:59:21 PM by Roasted Swan
Quote from: Alex Bozman on December 06, 2023, 02:40:45 PMAgree about the Philharmonic Concerto. It's quite a gritty piece and packs a lot into a fairly short time span.

I like the Philharmonic Concerto  but critically it has divided opinion.  The nay-sayers find it too bombastic and full of empty noisy gestures.  The most recent biographer seems to fall into the camp of it being a work that in some way Arnold wrote against his will nd that it reflects his mental decline.

Carshot

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March 06, 2025, 10:27:26 AM
Has anyone here bought the new Malcolm Arnold album ? Opinions please...


https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100362-malcolm-arnold/


foxandpeng

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March 14, 2025, 01:24:39 PM
Quote from: Carshot on March 06, 2025, 10:27:26 AMHas anyone here bought the new Malcolm Arnold album ? Opinions please...


https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100362-malcolm-arnold/




I haven't, but I look forward to hearing it.
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lunar22

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March 15, 2025, 09:24:16 AM
didn't know he'd written an organ concerto! I though the 18 concertos I already own by him was already a fair haul.

Roasted Swan

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March 16, 2025, 03:46:00 AM Last Edit: March 16, 2025, 03:48:41 AM by Roasted Swan
Quote from: lunar22 on March 15, 2025, 09:24:16 AMdidn't know he'd written an organ concerto! I though the 18 concertos I already own by him was already a fair haul.

its on the Bostock/Symphonic British Music/Vol.11 disc previously (got re-released and recoupled with some Gipps and Butterworth too).  Arnold in a kind of neo-baroque mood (lots of Bachian trumpets in the 1st movement!)

relm1

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April 19, 2025, 06:02:37 AM
I think Arnold was an excellent and unconventional conductor.  I generally prefer his unorthodox interpretation of his own works.  I consider them unorthodox because they tend to be quite slower than even his score suggests and, in that slowness, something unusual emerges.  For instance, the score of his fourth symphony says the duration is 36 minutes but his performance is 54 minutes!  As far as I can find, he didn't conduct his eighth or ninth symphonies.  Would have been very interesting to hear him take his No. 9 very slowly like maybe an hour long.  Here are some of his interpretations:
 
Symphony No. 1, op. 22 (1949) (39') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4m7hjFBMQ
Symphony No. 2, op. 40 (1953) (27') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hin86t78wGA
Symphony No. 3, op. 63 (1957) (33') https://youtu.be/BofBEvoM9y0?si=5xRoCotShDWs99jK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TDU9OwYvI&list=PLzfJVysWqfNThGJeJIdoKhJK5AFdt9E00&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ewzKBkQuU&list=PLzfJVysWqfNThGJeJIdoKhJK5AFdt9E00&index=8
Symphony No. 4, op. 71 (1960) (54') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErixGZhrnnU
Symphony No. 5, op .74 (1961) (33') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luf-zMQ5Owc
Symphony No. 6, op. 95 (1967) (26') https://youtu.be/m4vfpDYMQG0?si=mYXDsUsId0slZD5_
Symphony No. 7, op. 113 (1973) (50') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TaAOT0RMmU
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