The brand new issue of Beckus is out!
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The contents:
- Choral music première recordings
- Dances for orchestra
- Brass music
- Cornish Dances in Worthing
- More Gipps from Gamba
- Malcolm Arnold Festival 2025
- Special events
- BBC Concert Orchestra CD recording
- Committee news
- A year in the life: 1974 by Eleanor Fox
- New sheet music: The Song of Accounting Periods
- Sibelian Formal Principles in the First Movement
- of Malcolm Arnold’s Fifth Symphony (excerpt) by Ryan Ross
- Symphonies Serious or for Fun:
- Malcolm Arnold, the BBC and the Production of Taste
- Malcolm Binns
Malcolm Arnold’s symphonies have persistently divided critical opinion because of their problematic relationship with traditional genre expectations. This is especially the case in works that eschew sonata-style tonal conflicts and formal markers in favour of theme- and timbre-driven processes. In these respects, Sibelius, rather than members of the Austro-German symphonic tradition, was an important model for Arnold’s individual approach to symphonic composition.
Ryan Ross
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