Malcolm Arnold

Malcolm Arnold's Clarinet Concerto No.2 Op.115 was dedicated to Benny Goodman and first performed by him as part of the Red Rocks Music Festival with the Denver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brian Priestman on 17 August 1974. The third movement known affectionately as The Pre-Goodman Rag is an outrageous ragtime parody with a hauntingly wistful middle section. The work has now been made more widely available in this transcription for wind band.

The study score of Malcolm Arnold's 1955 concert masterpiece in a new engraving and edition. / Orchestre

Malcolm Arnold's ballet in one act Electra is presented here as a full study score. Based on a reduced version of Sophocles' play Arnold's ballet was commissioned by the Royal Ballet and first performed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden on the 26th of March 1963. Electra lasts around 15 minutes and was given its first concert performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London conducted by Barry Wordsworth on the 5th of November 2004. For this full score Arnold adopted the normal anglicised spelling of Electra  however the firstperformance had it billed in the original spelling of Elektra as in the more famous opera by Richard Strauss.  The ballet is exciting dynamic and dark making for a wonderful performance that's as compelling as it is enjoyable. The power of the music married with the intense percussion in Electra are fitting for such a classically tragic tale.

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. String Quartet #2 Op. 118 by Malcolm Arnold was first performed at the 1976 Aldeburgh Festival by the Allegri Quartet. This new edition has been arranged for two violins, viola and cello./ Répertoire / Alto, Violon et Violoncelle