Arnold: Cello Concerto

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[The Cello's Concerto] idiom ought to be too thin, but somehow it isn't: instead it's lean, clean, and uncannily precise...the Symphony for Strings remains one of his most impressive creations... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: 8572640
Label: Naxos
Length: 72 minutes

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Arnold: Shakespearean Cello Concerto, Op. 136

Work length20:08

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Raphael Wallfisch
Northern Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Ward

I. Allegro (2000 revised edition)

Track length6:40

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$1.30

II. Lento (2000 revised edition)

Track length7:52

$2.00

$2.60

III. Vivace (2000 revised edition)

Track length5:36

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Arnold: Concertino for Flute and Strings, Op. 19a

Work length8:07

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$3.90

Esther Ingham
Manchester Sinfonia
Richard Howarth

I. Allegro (Arr. D. Ellis from Flute Sonatina)

Track length3:00

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante (Arr. D. Ellis from Flute Sonatina)

Track length3:11

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III. Allegretto (Arr. D. Ellis from Flute Sonatina)

Track length1:56

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Arnold: Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet

Work length12:32

$5.00

$6.50

John Turner
Manchester Sinfonia
Richard Howarth

I. Andante e mesto (2001 revised Version)

Track length3:01

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II. Allegro (2001 revised Version)

Track length1:34

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III. Lento e mesto (2001 revised Version)

Track length2:42

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IV. Allegretto (2001 revised Version)

Track length1:32

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V. Vivace (2001 revised Version)

Track length3:43

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Arnold: Saxophone Concerto

Work length9:56

$3.00

$3.90

Carl Raven
Manchester Sinfonia
Richard Howarth

I. Allegro ma non troppo (Arr. D. Ellis from Piano Sonata)

Track length4:40

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$1.30

II. Andante con moto (Arr. D. Ellis from Piano Sonata)

Track length2:43

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III. Alla marcia (Arr. D. Ellis from Piano Sonata)

Track length2:33

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Arnold: Symphony for Strings, Op.13

Work length21:36

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$6.50

Northern Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Ward

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length8:19

$2.00

$2.60

II. Andantino, quasi allegretto

Track length7:28

$2.00

$2.60

III. Allegro feroce

Track length5:49

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Sir Malcolm Arnold’s preference for classical forms is fully explored in this representative but uniquely distinctive programme. Orchestrations of earlier works form the lyrical Concertino for Flute and Strings and a Saxophone Concerto whose bold statements foreshadow the gritty and powerful Symphony for Strings. Arnold’s virtuoso Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet is a late work, and the Cello Concerto was the composer’s last in this form; a piece which speaks directly from the soul, appearing here in its première recording.

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November 2011

[The Cello's Concerto] idiom ought to be too thin, but somehow it isn't: instead it's lean, clean, and uncannily precise...the Symphony for Strings remains one of his most impressive creations restlessly and probingly inventive. All the performances are excellent, each of them palpably savouring the composer's diamond-sharp craftsmanship; Raphael Wallfisch's mellow-toned virtuosity excells even in this company.

November 2011

The Northern Chamber Orchestra and the Manchester Sinfonia respectively deliver crisp, intelligent readings, supporting two stellar soloist performances. In the Cello Concerto, Wallfisch encapsulates Arnold's peculiarly British musical sensibility brilliantly, giving us pithy severity one moment and personal, lyrical expansiveness the next. John Turner's recorder performance is a virtuoso tour de force.

November 2011

[The Cello Concerto] emerges as an attractively clean-cut, formidably concentrated offering...The Symphony for Strings comprises another tautly argued, three-movement creation...The performances span a period of some five years (and emanate from no fewer than four different venues) but are never less than expert and thoroughly dedicated. No true Arnold enthusiast will want to miss this valuable release.

15th September 2011

Arnold’s Cello Concerto, written in 1988 for Julian Lloyd Webber, fully justifies its resurrection thanks to its characteristic mix of vitality, broad melody and taut compositional procedures. Raphael Wallfisch and the NCO relish its expressive and enlivening potential, the orchestra coming into its own again in the much earlier, flavoursome Symphony for Strings

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