The brand new issue of Beckus is out!
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The contents:
- Festival 2026
- Arnold fan at the Hallé
- Solitaire goes on tour
- Convert reviews
- John Wallace, RIP
- Fifth Symphony returns to Cheltenham
- New CD releases
- Wicked As They Come + A Prize of Gold
- From Penny Arnold’s collection
- British symphonic criticism: a tale of two symposia by Ryan Ross
- The Myth of the Nine: The last symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Malcolm Arnold by Jürgen Schaarwächter
- Committee news
Here, the “secret of the Ninth” is indeed confirmed, perhaps in a
Jürgen Schaarwächter on Malcolm Arnold’s 9th Symphony
reverse Schoenbergian sense: Here, the Ninth is a fully composed, transcendent
summation of a composer’s life – nothing more can be achieved in earthly life.


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