100 years of great music-making marked in a new BBC season Our Classical Century is starting this month. It involves BBC Four, BBC Two, Radio 3 and all the BBC orchestras from November 2018 to July 2019. One episode is dedicated to Malcolm Arnold and his film score to the […]
MAESTRO The Journal of the Malcolm Arnold Society Issue 5 was released at the 13th Malcolm Arnold Festival Price: £10. To order please contact Terry. It includes p&p in the UK. Issue 5 October 2018 64 pages, with colour illustrations: Malcolm Arnold’s concertos: masterpieces of mélange by Isaac Adni “Just […]
Cameo Classics, an offshoot of Lyrita, released Stokowski recordings from 1954 and 1973. Most material originated from concert given in a studio on 5 May 1954 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra recorded at the time by Richard Itter. George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody, No. 1 in A Major, Op. 11 Malcolm […]
Are you a member of the Malcolm Arnold Society? Then the brand new issue of Beckus (No 110) should be with you shortly. If you are not yet a member: Just click here! The contents: Tavistock Festival Sean Shibe wins RPS music award Ruth Gipps Variations – Vanbrugh Ensemble Arnold on […]
Sounds of Brass presented by Philip Hunt Sunday 15th July 2018 Broadcast on BBC Radio Cornwall, Devon, Guernsey & Jersey @ 8 pm and on BBC Radio Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset Sound, Swindon & Wiltshire @12am. And available on the iPlayer until 30 days after broadcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7s2 More information will be […]
Are you a member of the Malcolm Arnold Society? Then the brand new issue of Beckus (No 109) should be with you shortly. If you are not yet a member: Just click here! The contents: Brighton Philharmonic concert A new Patron Eton Essay Prize winners Tavistock Festival The Eton Collection New […]
Returning to the UK stage, David Nixon OBE’s The Three Musketeers is a dashing tale of intrigue, treachery, romance and thrilling swordplay. With a sweeping score by Sir Malcolm Arnold, played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia. The Three Musketeers will tour to Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield and Canterbury from October to November 2018. More […]
A new Chandos release! Fanfares performed by Onyx Brass conducted by John Wilson Chandos CHSA 5221 Purchase the recording here! Contains the following Fanfares by Sir Malcolm Arnold: Fanfare for a Royal Occasion (1956) * A Richmond Fanfare (1957) * Kingston Fanfare (1959) Festival Fanfare (1961) Railway Fanfare (1975) *Premiere […]
Eton College has announced the winners of the Malcolm Arnold essay prize! Eleanor Fox of Kings College London and Isaac Adni of Westminster School. Congratulations! More on this in the upcoming Beckus and the essays themselves will be published in the next Maestro!
Over the decades owing to all too human nature concert music manuscripts, film score manuscripts and even films themselves get lost. A new endeavour was started in the Winter 2017 issue of Beckus (No 107) by our chairman Alan Poulton to locate the missing materials. Bit by bit we will be […]
The Dutch label Zefir Records has released a new recording of the Scottish Dances. The Zeeland Orchestra conducted by Ivan Meylemans. The CD also contains Britten’s Violin Concerto with soloist Mathieu van Bellen. Purchase the recording here:
Are you a member of the Malcolm Arnold Society? Then the brand new issue of Beckus (No 108) should be with you now. If you are not yet a member: Just click here! The contents: Eton College Malcolm Arnold Competition Heatwave: Music for flute, oboe, and piano A heatwave in December […]