July 2010
The 1959 film ‘The Boy and the Bridge’ – directed by Kevin McClory with music by Malcolm Arnold – is to receive an all too rare screening this July. The British Film Institute will show this atmospheric and evocative film at 3pm on July 17, at the South Bank’s National Film Theatre 1. The film will be introduced by Robin Baker, Head Curator at the BFI Archives . Read more

June 2010
Malcolm Arnold chosen for proposed new academy name. The David Ross Foundation is pleased to announce that its proposed new academy in Northampton will be called the Malcolm Arnold Academy. Over 400 students and staff submitted their suggestions for a name for the proposed new academy. Malcolm Arnold was the most popular choice for a unique academy name. Read more

March 2010
Paul Harris, Artistic Director of the Malcolm Arnold Festival, speaks about his plans for the  5th Malcolm Arnold Festival, the weekend of 16th and 17 October 2010, at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton. (Box office opens on  23 April: Tel. 01604 624811)

"The Theme for this year's Festival will be Stage & Screen. Ideal mediums for Sit Malcolm's gloriously colourful, evocative and melodic music. In fact Sir Malcolm wrote the scores for over 70 major feature films - indeed in the 50s and 60s he was one of the most sought after film composers, both here and in Hollywood. There are 5 ballets, one musical and a fascinating assortment of incidental music. We shall be exploring each of these genres in this year's Festival, which will be launched by the legendary actress Hayley Mills, star of 'Whistle down the Wind'. During the launch 12 trumpeters from the award winning Northampton County Youth Orchestra will play Sir Malcolm's exuberant and high-spirited 'Hoffnung Fanfare'  "... Read more

March 2010
The Stockholm Chamber Brass new release of Malcolm Arnold's Brass Quintet No1, Op 73 (BIS-CD 1438)
Gramophone Magazine, April 2010 – Richard Whitehouse
‘Malcolm Arnold’s First Quintet (1961) remains a model of how to invest the classical formal sequence with an immediately identifiable personality and a technical expertise acquirable only “from the inside”… a disc that, finely recorded and well annotated, deserves to be in the collection of more than just brass buffs’

November 2009
The Hitchin Symphony Orchestra was in celebration mode this November! With 4 major anniversaries to their credit - the 80th year of the orchestra’s founding, the 70th birthday year of the HSO’s President, John McCabe, the 40th anniversary of its Leader, Janet Hicks, and the 25th anniversary of their conductor Paul Adrian Rooke – a special concert was given by the orchestra on Saturday 21 November at St Mary’s Church, Hitchin. The programme, conducted by Paul Adrian Rooke, featured Sir Malcolm Arnold’s Symphony 3, Wagner’s Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin and Standford’s Violin Concerto.

October 2009
The conductor John Gibbons discusses Arnold’s Symphonic status with particular reference to the Fourth Symphony - a work he conducted in two concerts this October, including the gala evening at this year's 'Malcolm Arnold Festival' in Northampton.
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October 2009
This autumn sees the release of an important and exciting new addition to the expanding Arnold/Chandos recording catalogue: Sir Malcolm Arnold – Ballet Music CHAN 10550, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rumon Gamba
Rumon Gamba’s reading of the Arnold ballet scores on this disc – ‘Electra’, ‘Rinaldo & Armida’, and the two suites from ‘Homage to the Queen’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’ – shows once again the empathy and feeling this fine conductor has for Sir Malcolm’s music. The BBC Philharmonic deliver performances that combine all the sweep and élan needed for ballet music containing such brilliant colours; whilst in the haunting lyrical passages of ‘Rinaldo & Armida’ and ‘Homage to the Queen’ especially, their playing is at once nuanced and sensitive.
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October 2009
In the glorious North Cornwall venues of Prideaux Place and St Petroc's Church, the very first ‘Padstow Arts Festival’ took place between the 2nd and the 4th October. The Festival celebrated the life and work of two of the town’s former residents, Sir Malcolm Arnold and Sir John Betjeman. Read More

October 2009
The Salieri Quartet has Malcolm Arnold's 'String Quartet 2' firmly established within their repertoire. Their leader, Nick Barnard, reflects on this profound work - and the process of bringing it to performance - with fascinating insight. Read more

September 2009
Last night of the Proms: “A Grand, Grand Festival Overture”  Reviews
The Sunday Telegraph, 13 September 2009
Classical music critic, Geoffrey Norris, reviews the last night of the Proms.
Vacuum cleaners and a floor-polisher were the bizarre stars of the evening. The 115th season of BBC Proms ended last night with the usual balloon-popping, flag-waving and lusty singing of "Land of Hope and Glory", but the novelty item, embellished with household appliances and rifle shots, came in the shape of Sir Malcolm Arnold's eight-minute "Grand, Grand Overture".
Consternation has often been expressed that Arnold, who died in 2006, has received little or no recognition at the Proms in recent years despite his major contributions to the film and concert repertoires, and, if the overture cannot be counted among his more serious works, it does at least show that he could cock a snook with the best of them. Read more

June 2009
Musicologist Dr Raphael Thoene, author of 'Malcolm Arnold - A Composer of Real Music: Symphonic Writing, Style and Aesthetics' (pub:Entercom Saurus)  was interviewed on the subject of Malcolm Arnold's music for 'Music Academy onLIVE' on June 15th 2009.

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April 2009
The Three Musketeers go to the Baltic in 2009
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The Three Musketeers. An interview by Liina Viru, Literary Editor of the Estonian National Opera, with the Choreographer/Stage Director David Nixon (Northern Ballet Theatre), Set Designer Charles Cusick Smith, and dancers from the Estonian National Ballet, on the eve of their premiere of  The Three Musketeers in Tallinn on 23 April. Read more

February 2009
Moritz Ernst plays Malcolm Arnold

Moritz Ernst has released a new all-Arnold CD on the Entercom Saurus label. The recording comprises major works from the Arnold catalogue, alongside several of the composer’s smaller piano pieces - gems rarely heard in the concert hall, still less available on CD.
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