If I Could Choose Only One Work By...ARNOLD
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2023
- It Would Have To Be...Symphony No. 5
Because it's one of the great examples of eclectic, sentimental expression in modern symphonic form.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
The 🔔 bells 🔔 and the jazziness of Arnold’s specific movement you played definitely 💯 transmit that shopping 🛒 feelings you mentioned.
Oh my goodness, I love this work. My best friend in high school played trombone, and when I play this symphony, I always fondly recall my dear friend. But yes, Arnold is one of the greats of the 20th century. If only his music were programmed here in the USA... What I find amazing about his music is how it can sound so familiar yet so fresh and original at the same time.
The slow movement is one of the greatest slow movements ever.
It really just had to be the Fifth. An extraordinary work, start to finish. An album of all the dances would be an excellent alternative.
Absolutely. He was the English Shostakovich IMO. The music to the St Trinians movies are fabulous.
Just relistened to this symphony for the first time in several years. The two outer movements are brilliant. Almost a Concerto for orchestra. Even the tuba has its moments in the 1st movement.
When the big tune from the slow movement returns at the end of the 4th movement, it almost sounds cliche but humorous and all I can say is that it works. Kind of a Sibelian 2nd symphony reminder.
Great Choice!
I absolutely love the music of Sir Malcolm, and thanks to you over the last couple years have taken the deep dive & and so happy I did.
Arnold had a fantastic head for tunes and was a genius of orchestral colors. The listeners just get so much bang for the buck with his music 👍
Yeah had to be the 5th it’s a outstanding work. It was you DH that got me into Arnold with the Naxos box set review that you did.
Yah for Arnold! I got the Naxos set because of Dave. Really enjoying it.
Hi Dave I love this video because I love Arnold who is the most underrated of all composers I think. And you know what? I was listening to the Connifer box and I fell in love with him when I heard that theme of the scherzo that you sing !
The second movement of Arnold’s Symphony No.5 reminds me of the Mahler’s 5th Adagietto.
Love this work. Highly sophisticated and also thoroughly enjoyable
I love the slow meandering theme of the slow movement. Could fit into a 1940s romantic film.
It sounds Mahlerian to me, much akin to the Italian aria without words in the finale of the 1st.
Guess I'm tacky, but I love the slow movement tune.
Not at all. MA knew exactly what he was doing! 🙂 sheer genius.
Ah cruel Cancrizans, though foul fiendish malefactor! Off the top of my head, I probably wouldn’t have named Malcolm Arnold one of my favorite composers. But then I think about it some more, and of the Arnold works I know, I’d hate to part with a single one. As you say in the Hovhaness Cancrizans video, if you love the composer’s style, you’ll love all of his works. The 5th is both typical and the best of the lot, so I’m glad it will be preserved in posterity forever. Maybe it will even get played now, too.
That beautiful flute melody in the slow movement, is like the greatest John Barry theme that John Barry never wrote. And it predates most of his work!
Great talk, best possible selection of Arnold's work. Will you include the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks? I find his music so emotionally resonant and powerful.
Hello, Dave. Nothing to do with this specific topic, but a few suggestions for future "If I could choose only one work..." (in brackets, my own preferences) : Zelenka (Missa votiva) ; Lotti (Missa sapientiae) ; Rameau (Hippolyte et Aricie) ; Couperin (Pièces de clavecin) ; Lassus (Psalmi penitentiales) ; Palestrina (Sicut cervus) ; Byrd (Missas 3, 4 and 5 voices) ; Gesualdo (Tenebrae responsoria) ; Alonso Lobo (Versa est in luctum) ; Dufay (Missa Se la face ay pale) ... Best regards !
Oh, I was hoping for the school song from 'Blue Murder at St Trinian's' 😉
An album of his many dance suites would be my choice.
At least you didn't choose the Grand, Grand Overture. Ha Ha
Another great video. Would you please consider making more videos regarding music for trumpet in particular and brass in general?
The Conifer recordings are available in an eleven CD box from Sony, at a very attractive price.
Next suggestion for the series- Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel