Maestro Journal

MAESTRO
The Journal of the Malcolm Arnold Society

Maestro 10

Issue 10 October 2025
72 pages, with b&w illustrations. Please purchase here.

Sheila Nicholson: Malcolm Arnold’s wartime bride
Four Cornish Dances
Arnold’s 1954: a year in music
Music for low comedy and high romance: Malcolm Arnold’s score for Hobson’s Choice
Symphonies, serious or for fun: Malcolm Arnold, the BBC, and the production of taste
A Bridge Too Far? Music in the British war film, 1945–1979
The legacy of Malcolm Arnold’s music for winds
Malcolm Arnold’s music for wind: a chronological catalogue
Performing the Fantasy for B-flat Trumpet and other contemporary trumpet works
20 years of the Malcolm Arnold Festival

Maestro 9

Issue 9 October 2024
68 pages, with b&w illustrations. Please purchase here.

Malcolm Arnold’s contribution to music for brass3/1/1900
The genesis of Arnold’s Brass Quintet Op.73
Malcolm Arnold and Walton’s Five Bagatelles
Sir Malcolm Arnold, honorary rock star (Deep Purple)
The Dean Hussey Choral Commissions
My time in Northampton (Philip Pfaff)
Shopping and Fricker: the Cheltenham Festival
Arnold at the Cheltenham Festival: concert reviews
Letters to Arnold
Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University
Arnold at the Wigmore Hall
The search for the missing scores

Maestro 8

Issue 8 October 2022
68 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

To what extent is Malcolm Arnold a misunderstood composer? by Becky-Ellice Creighton
Malcolm Arnold and the CRMS by Ian Graham-Jones
Reassessing Arnold by Piers Burton-Page
Malcolm Arnold’s scrapbook by David Dunstan
Capel Garmon: the Arnolds’ retreat by Paul Harris
Lost and found by Alan Poulton
Arnold’s legacy by Piers Burton-Page
The cadenza of Malcolm Arnold’s Second Clarinet Concerto by
Peter Cigleris, Brian Inglis and Paul Harris
The New Elizabethan Soundtrack by Stephen Banfield
From the archives: articles from Beckus 2009-2014

Maestro 7

Issue 7 October 2020
60 pages, with colour illustrations, plus a 12-page supplement. Please purchase here.

Malcolm Arnold and Julian Bream by Piers Burton-Page
Working with Malcolm Arnold by Michala Petri
Thoughts on the Fourth Symphony by David Dunstan
Feature Films in Performance by Alan Poulton
A Cornish Diary, 1965-1972 by Alan Poulton
From the archives: articles from Beckus 2009-2010

Maestro 6

Issue 6 October 2019
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

Arnold on the Small Screen by Alan Poulton
A Catalogue of Achievement: Alan Poulton’s early years by Anthony Meredith
Arnold’s feature films and their literary sources by Alan Poulton
Malcolm Arnold’s 1954 Incidental Music to The Tempest by Thomas Nettle
The Arnold Documentaries by Alan Poulton
From the archives: Beckus 2005–2008

Maestro 5

Issue 5 October 2018
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

Malcolm Arnold’s concertos: masterpieces of mélange by Isaac Adni
“Just great”: Malcolm Arnold’s Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op.115 by Eleanor Fox
The Arnold Quartets revisited by Piers Burton-Page
Lamond Clelland: piccolo player by Alan Poulton
Arnold’s shortest symphony: the Toy Symphony by Alan Poulton
Fantasy for Harp by Osian Ellis
Pilot Officer Philip Arnold (1919-1940) by Anthony Meredith
Elgar’s influence on Malcolm Arnold by Dr Raphael Thoene
Malcolm Arnold and the BBC by Alan Poulton
From the archives: Beckus 2004

Maestro 4

Issue 4 October 2017
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

More Fantasies for Solo Instruments
Thomas Merritt: “Music is meat and drink to me”
Arnold’s ‘other’ Ballets
Arnold film and concert music on 7″ vinyl
Invitation to the Dance
The Symphonies of Malcolm Arnold
Letters between Malcolm Arnold and William Walton
Donald Mitchell on Malcolm Arnold
From the archives: Beckus 2002-2003

Maestro 3

Issue 3 October 2016
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

The brass instrument Fantasies
Through the soloists’ eyes: Harmonica concerto
Arnold’s published film music
The Haweses: a musical family
A bibliographical update
From the archives: Beckus 2000-2002

Maestro 2

Issue 2 October 2015

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Henry Christophe and other operas
Dennis Brain and the Horn Concerto
Birmingham International Wind Competition 1966
National Youth Orchestra
Kwai: a cinematic review
Arnold on LP

Maestro 1

Issue 1 October 2014
Articles from Beckus 1991-2000. Please purchase here.

Malcolm Arnold and Jon Lord
The ballet music
Malcolm Arnold and me (by Joe Mendoza)
Film music: the Arnold-Lean trilogy