wimpel69
11-03-2016, 12:37 PM
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On balance, Vernon "Tod" Handley's is the best of the three existing complete symphonic
cycles of Malcolm Arnold (the others are Hickox/Gamba and Penny). They combine interpretive
fluidity with excellent playing and recorded sound. Also included are the three Conifer albums
of Arnold's concertante works, as conducted by Mark Stephenson.
Sir Malcolm Arnold's 60-year career has shown him to be perhaps the most versatile and prolific of the many
British composers who emerged in the post-World War II era. Born in Northampton in 1921, Arnold was trained as a
composer and trumpeter at the Royal College of Music from 1938 to 1941 (under Gordon Jacob for composition and
Ernest Hall for trumpet), after which he won a trumpet position with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. After a
promotion to principal trumpet in 1942, Arnold's career there was interrupted by two years of military service (1944-1945)
and a year with Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony (during the 1945-1946 season). Arnold returned to the London
Philharmonic in 1946, but soon found that composition was exercising an increasingly strong hold over his musical
attention. Upon receiving the Mendelssohn scholarship in 1948 (which, in addition to prestige, provided the young
composer with funds to spend a year in Italy), Arnold resigned from the orchestra to devote himself to composition
(and, later, conducting) on a full-time basis.
Arnold's output over the next 50 years was prodigious: nine symphonies, 20 concertos, five ballets (including a version
of Sweeney Todd in 1959), and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of smaller pieces for all kinds of ensembles. A successful
secondary career as a film composer resulted in over 80 scores, including the Academy Award-winning Bridge on the
River Kwai. Arnold has been the recipient of many public and academic honors, including honorary doctorates from the
universities of Exeter, Durham, and Leicester, and the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Services to British Music"
in 1986. Named Commander of the British Empire in 1970, he was further honored in 1993 when his name appeared
among those selected as Knights of the British Empire.
His resistance to identification with any of the various and ubiquitous "schools" of composition during the latter half of
the twentieth century earned him the unbridled displeasure of many critics and fellow composers. On the surface, his
music seems more intended to welcome audiences than to put his formidable technical skills on display, or to make
musical or artistic "progress." While at times the overly accessible surface contours of his work (particularly the large-
scale orchestral pieces) obscure the fundamental tensions that drive the music at a deeper level, Arnold's sense of
craftsmanship -- an aristocratic pride that prohibits him from engaging in what he sees as vulgar twentieth century
techniques, while also perhaps causing his music-making to fall short of its deeply expressive potential -- has resulted
in an enviable consistency of output. Arnold named Berlioz as an inspiration; influence also came from a composer
who provided England with its wartime anthem and who was always more popular in England than on the Continent -
the similarly anti-modernist and individualist Jean Sibelius.
This collection includes:
Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Complete)
Concerto for Two Pianos (Three Hands)
Fantasy on a Theme by John Field
Tam O'Shanter Overture
A Grand, Grand Overture
Carnival of the Animals
Sweeney Todd Suite
Oboe Concerto
Fantasy for Oboe and Strings
Concerto for Two Violins
Flute Concerto No.1
Clarinet Concerto No.1
Horn Concerto No.1
Concerto for Piano Duet
Flute Concerto No.2
Horn Concerto No.2
Clarinet Concerto No.2
Viola Concerto
Concerto for 28 Players
Sernade for Small Orchestra
Larch Trees
Music Composed by
Malcolm Arnold
Played by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
London Musici
Conducted by
Vernon Handley
Mark Stephenson
"One of England's busiest and most recorded conductors of the late 20th century, Vernon Handley (1930-2008)
emerged in the 1970s as the successor to Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli as the leading exponent of English
music. Like Boult before him, he made a career specialty out of performing and recording symphonic music from England,
some of it well-known and much of it overlooked by previous generations of conductors and audiences.
Vernon George Handley was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and the Guildhall School of Music. His earliest engagements
as conductor were with the Oxford University Musical Club and Union, the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society, and the orchestra
of the Hatfield School of Music and Drama. He became a professor of orchestra and conducting at the Royal College of
Music during 1966, a post he held for six years. During the 1960s and 1970s, Handley was a frequent guest conductor
with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic,
the BBC Welsh Orchestra and the BBC Northern Symphony, the London Philharmonic, and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
He was also frequently seen as a guest conductor on tour in various European countries, including Germany, Holland,
Sweden, and France. Handley was also seen as a conductor at the London Proms concerts, and was the chief guest
conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 1994, in addition to holding posts with several
Australian orchestras. In 1998 he became principal guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and was, as well,
associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Handley's major impact as a conductor was through his recordings for EMI and Chandos, where he performed a large
body of important English music. For EMI, his recordings of the music of Delius and Elgar, and, especially, the nine
Vaughan Williams symphonies have proved perennially popular, the latter good successors to the earlier recordings
by Sir Adrian Boult. For Chandos, he recorded a more unusual and specialized body of work, including the six
symphonies of Sir Charles Villier Stanford -- which had largely been forgotten since the first decade of the 20th
century -- and the works of E.J. Moeran, Sir Arnold Bax, Sir Arthur Bliss, Peter Warlock, and Gerald Finzi, among
many others. Handley also occasionally did work with more mainstream European composers, including conducting
Jill Gomez's highly effective performance of the Joseph Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne.
When he wasn't conducting, Handley spent much of his time studying and photographing birds in their natural
habitats."
Source: Conifer Records CDs (My rips!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 files (each disc incl. cover & booklet)
File Sizes: 294 MB / 242 MB / 336 MB / 372 MB / 283 MB / 225 MB / 228 MB / 221 MB / 223 MB
Total Size: 2.4 GB
Please request the FLAC links (including the most of
the covers and booklets) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
the covers and booklets) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
On balance, Vernon "Tod" Handley's is the best of the three existing complete symphonic
cycles of Malcolm Arnold (the others are Hickox/Gamba and Penny). They combine interpretive
fluidity with excellent playing and recorded sound. Also included are the three Conifer albums
of Arnold's concertante works, as conducted by Mark Stephenson.
Sir Malcolm Arnold's 60-year career has shown him to be perhaps the most versatile and prolific of the many
British composers who emerged in the post-World War II era. Born in Northampton in 1921, Arnold was trained as a
composer and trumpeter at the Royal College of Music from 1938 to 1941 (under Gordon Jacob for composition and
Ernest Hall for trumpet), after which he won a trumpet position with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. After a
promotion to principal trumpet in 1942, Arnold's career there was interrupted by two years of military service (1944-1945)
and a year with Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony (during the 1945-1946 season). Arnold returned to the London
Philharmonic in 1946, but soon found that composition was exercising an increasingly strong hold over his musical
attention. Upon receiving the Mendelssohn scholarship in 1948 (which, in addition to prestige, provided the young
composer with funds to spend a year in Italy), Arnold resigned from the orchestra to devote himself to composition
(and, later, conducting) on a full-time basis.
Arnold's output over the next 50 years was prodigious: nine symphonies, 20 concertos, five ballets (including a version
of Sweeney Todd in 1959), and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of smaller pieces for all kinds of ensembles. A successful
secondary career as a film composer resulted in over 80 scores, including the Academy Award-winning Bridge on the
River Kwai. Arnold has been the recipient of many public and academic honors, including honorary doctorates from the
universities of Exeter, Durham, and Leicester, and the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Services to British Music"
in 1986. Named Commander of the British Empire in 1970, he was further honored in 1993 when his name appeared
among those selected as Knights of the British Empire.
His resistance to identification with any of the various and ubiquitous "schools" of composition during the latter half of
the twentieth century earned him the unbridled displeasure of many critics and fellow composers. On the surface, his
music seems more intended to welcome audiences than to put his formidable technical skills on display, or to make
musical or artistic "progress." While at times the overly accessible surface contours of his work (particularly the large-
scale orchestral pieces) obscure the fundamental tensions that drive the music at a deeper level, Arnold's sense of
craftsmanship -- an aristocratic pride that prohibits him from engaging in what he sees as vulgar twentieth century
techniques, while also perhaps causing his music-making to fall short of its deeply expressive potential -- has resulted
in an enviable consistency of output. Arnold named Berlioz as an inspiration; influence also came from a composer
who provided England with its wartime anthem and who was always more popular in England than on the Continent -
the similarly anti-modernist and individualist Jean Sibelius.
This collection includes:
Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Complete)
Concerto for Two Pianos (Three Hands)
Fantasy on a Theme by John Field
Tam O'Shanter Overture
A Grand, Grand Overture
Carnival of the Animals
Sweeney Todd Suite
Oboe Concerto
Fantasy for Oboe and Strings
Concerto for Two Violins
Flute Concerto No.1
Clarinet Concerto No.1
Horn Concerto No.1
Concerto for Piano Duet
Flute Concerto No.2
Horn Concerto No.2
Clarinet Concerto No.2
Viola Concerto
Concerto for 28 Players
Sernade for Small Orchestra
Larch Trees
Music Composed by
Malcolm Arnold
Played by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
London Musici
Conducted by
Vernon Handley
Mark Stephenson
"One of England's busiest and most recorded conductors of the late 20th century, Vernon Handley (1930-2008)
emerged in the 1970s as the successor to Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli as the leading exponent of English
music. Like Boult before him, he made a career specialty out of performing and recording symphonic music from England,
some of it well-known and much of it overlooked by previous generations of conductors and audiences.
Vernon George Handley was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and the Guildhall School of Music. His earliest engagements
as conductor were with the Oxford University Musical Club and Union, the Tonbridge Philharmonic Society, and the orchestra
of the Hatfield School of Music and Drama. He became a professor of orchestra and conducting at the Royal College of
Music during 1966, a post he held for six years. During the 1960s and 1970s, Handley was a frequent guest conductor
with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic,
the BBC Welsh Orchestra and the BBC Northern Symphony, the London Philharmonic, and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
He was also frequently seen as a guest conductor on tour in various European countries, including Germany, Holland,
Sweden, and France. Handley was also seen as a conductor at the London Proms concerts, and was the chief guest
conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 1994, in addition to holding posts with several
Australian orchestras. In 1998 he became principal guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and was, as well,
associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Handley's major impact as a conductor was through his recordings for EMI and Chandos, where he performed a large
body of important English music. For EMI, his recordings of the music of Delius and Elgar, and, especially, the nine
Vaughan Williams symphonies have proved perennially popular, the latter good successors to the earlier recordings
by Sir Adrian Boult. For Chandos, he recorded a more unusual and specialized body of work, including the six
symphonies of Sir Charles Villier Stanford -- which had largely been forgotten since the first decade of the 20th
century -- and the works of E.J. Moeran, Sir Arnold Bax, Sir Arthur Bliss, Peter Warlock, and Gerald Finzi, among
many others. Handley also occasionally did work with more mainstream European composers, including conducting
Jill Gomez's highly effective performance of the Joseph Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne.
When he wasn't conducting, Handley spent much of his time studying and photographing birds in their natural
habitats."
Source: Conifer Records CDs (My rips!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 files (each disc incl. cover & booklet)
File Sizes: 294 MB / 242 MB / 336 MB / 372 MB / 283 MB / 225 MB / 228 MB / 221 MB / 223 MB
Total Size: 2.4 GB
Please request the FLAC links (including the most of
the covers and booklets) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
These are my own rips. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
