sir Malcolm Arnold

[Alex Bozman]

I 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]

Agree 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 dividied 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.