Malcolm Arnold - Music for Brass Band

The CD features some of Malcolm’s best music for brass and includes no less than 4 CD premieres

Track Listing

• Fantasy for Brass Band Op 114
• Little Suite No 1 Op 80
• Little Suite No 2 Op 93
• Song of Freedom Op 109 – CD Premiere – including a soprano/alto chorus from Chetham’s Music School Manchester
• Fanfare for a Festival (1955) (arr. for brass band by Philip Sparke)
• March: Overseas Op.70 (1960) [arr. Neil Richmond, 2008] – CD Premiere
• The Roots of Heaven (1958): Overture (arr. for brass band by Neil Richmond) – CD Premiere
• Sweeney Todd (arr. Philip Littlemore) – CD Premiere
• Peterloo Overture (arr. Andrew Duncan)

Reviews

4Bars Rest

Planet Hugill

Paul Hindmarsh’s review

Watch the 2nd movement of the Song of Freedom being recorded at Stoller Hall, Manchester: