Malcolm Arnold

This collection for Voice and Piano contains four delightful and recently discovered early songs by the young Malcolm Arnold with words by Humbert Wolfe. The songs are named after four plants that can be found in London's Kensington Gardens: Daffodil Hawthorn Tree Laburnum and Lupin. This work provides an important and fascinating addition to the repertoire.

Edward Greenfield of Gramophone magazine says '. . .a piece full of colourful ideas including many good tunes with the three shepherds for example treated to a gallumphine song in the style of music-hall and with Susanna's Dance bringing anglicized Straussian echoes of Salome's Dance. As the title implies it all leads up to a setting of the Nunc dimittis Simeon's song. . .'September 1996

The Open Window by Malcolm Arnold is an opera in one act based on the story by H.H. Munro. Vocal score.

The Open Window by Malcolm Arnold is an opera in one act based on the story by H.H. Munro. Full score.