The Music of Malcolm Arnold London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron

• Malcolm Arnold (1921 - 2006): Concerto for Organ and Orchestra:
• 1 Arnold: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra: Vivace 05:16
• 2 Arnold: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra: Lento 05:57
• 3 Arnold: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra: Allegretto 03:09
• Song of Praise:
• 4 Arnold: Song of Praise 02:53
• Two Ceremonial Psalms:
• 5 Arnold: Two Ceremonial Psalms: O come let us sing unto the Lord 02:12
• 6 Arnold: Two Ceremonial Psalms: Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands 01:49
• Psalm 150 ‘Laudate Dominum’:
• 7 Arnold: Psalm 150 ‘Laudate Dominum’ 07:22
• The John Clare Cantata:
• 8 Arnold: The John Clare Cantata: Winter Snow Storm 02:56
• 9 Arnold: The John Clare Cantata: March 01:50
• 10 Arnold: The John Clare Cantata: Spring 02:06
• 11 Arnold: The John Clare Cantata: Summer 01:33
• 12 Arnold: The John Clare Cantata: Autumn 03:07
• 13 Arnold: The John Clare Cantata: Epilogue 01:30
• Two Part Songs:
• 14 Arnold: Two Part Songs: Spleen 02:36
• 15 Arnold: Two Part Songs: Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam 01:55
• This Christmas Night:
• 16 Arnold: This Christmas Night 02:07
• Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra:
• 17 Arnold: Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra: Allegro risoluto 06:00
• 18 Arnold: Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra: Andantino 07:11
• 19 Arnold: Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra: Vivace 02:53
• The Pilgrim Caravan (Christmas Hymn):
• 20 Arnold: The Pilgrim Caravan (Christmas Hymn) 03:35
• The Padstow Lifeboat:
• 21 Arnold: The Padstow Lifeboat 04:46
• Total Runtime 01:12:43

Info zu The Music of Malcolm Arnold

Dieses neue Album der London Choral Sinfonia haucht den Werken von Malcolm Arnold neues Leben ein und feiert seine lebendige und meisterhafte Kompositionskunst von Sinfonien bis hin zu Chorstücken und Konzerten. Es hebt das oft übersehene Genie eines der vielseitigsten Komponisten Großbritanniens hervor. Für den Kurator des Albums und LCS-Direktor Michael Waldron begann die Reise mit Kindheitserinnerungen an das Spielen von Arnolds Blasorchesterstücken in der Schule. Während des Covid-Lockdowns wurde „The Belles of St Trinian's“ zufällig wiederentdeckt, was Waldrons Bewunderung für Arnolds Musik neu entfachte und zu einer Erkundung seiner Sinfonien, Blasorchesterwerke und des fesselnden Orgelkonzerts führte. Diese Entdeckung brachte auch eine Reihe von größtenteils unveröffentlichten Chorwerken ans Licht, darunter „Laudate Dominum“ und „The John Clare Cantata“, die Arnolds bemerkenswerte Fähigkeit zeigen, Erhabenheit mit Geheimnisvollem zu verbinden. Auch Jack Liebeck und Alexander Sitkovetsky sind zu hören, sie spielen im Konzert für zwei Violinen, ein etwas düstereres Stück als die anderen auf dem Album und sehr kontrastreiche, vom eindringlichen Mittelsatz bis zu den verspielten Rhythmen des Finales. Die Aufnahme endet mit „The Padstow Lifeboat“, einem dynamischen Arrangement, das Charme und Widerstandsfähigkeit vereint, und die Energie und den Witz einfängt, die Arnolds Stil ausmachen.

Jack Liebeck, Violine
Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violine
Edward Picton-Turbervill, Klavier
Cameron Richardson-Eames, Klavier
James Orford, Orgel
London Choral Sinfonia
Michael Waldron, Dirigent

Nick Pritchard
is gaining fast recognition for his performances of the music of Bach and in particular his interpretation of the Evangelist in the Passions. Described as a ‘Masterly Evangelist’ in The Guardian, he has sung the role in Bach’s St John and Matthew Passions around the world and his recording of the St John Passion (Evangelist) for Deutsche Grammophon with Sir John Elliot Gardiner was nominated for a Grammy Award for best Choral Performance (2023). Recent performances of the piece include those with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at the Concertgebouw under Jonathan Cohen, for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Polyphony and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.

On the concert platform he has performed with Ensemble Pygmalion, Concerto Köln, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Violons du Roy, L’Orchestre du Chambre de Paris, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, Early Opera Company, Philharmonia Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gabrieli Consort, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Early Opera Company and he made his BBC Proms debut with Britten Sinfonia under David Bates performing Mozart’s Requiem. He has performed under conductors including Harry Bicket, John Butt, Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Cohen, Christian Curnyn, Maxim Emelyanychev, Adam Fischer, Emmanuelle Haïm, Simon Halsey, George Petrou, Raphaël Pichon, Christophe Rousset, Sir András Schiff and Ryan Wigglesworth.

A fine actor and equally at home on the operatic stage, roles have included Oronte, Alcina in a new Tim Albery production for Opera North, Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Aldeburgh Festival’s 70th anniversary, Tamino, Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour and for Irish National Opera and Peter Whelan, Prologue The Turn of the Screw and Ferrando, Cosí fan tutte for Opera Holland Park, Amphinomus, The Return of Ulysses for the Royal Opera House, Purcell’s The Indian Queen for the Opéra de Lille, Théâtre de Caen, Opera Vlaandern and Grand Theatre Luxembourg all under Emmanuelle Haïm as well as Albert Albert Herring, John/Angel 3, Written on Skin, Colonel Fairfax, The Yeomen of the Guard, Acis, Acis and Galatea and the title role in Candide. A regular performer of New Music he has also given several World Premieres, including creating the role of Matthew in Mark Simpson’s opera Pleasure (Opera North, Aldeburgh and The Royal Opera House), Through these Pale Cold Days, a song cycle for Tenor, Viola and Piano written by Ian Venables for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, Sleepsinging by Cassandra Miller (with David Bates and La Nuova Music at Wigmore Hall), Daniel Kidane’s Songs of Illumination (with Ian Tindale at the Leeds Lieder Festival), Gabriel Jackson’s Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ (with The Choir of Merton College, Oxford and Benjamin Nicholas) and Bob Chilcott’s Christmas Oratorio (The Three Choirs Festival and Adrian Partington).

In August 2023 Nick gave his Edinburgh International Festival recital debut with pianist Ian Tindale which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 including works by Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc and Benjamin Britten. He has also given recitals with Gary Matthewman, James Bailieu, Simon Lepper, Sholto Kynoch, Christopher Glynn, Graham Johnson and Malcolm Martineau at Wigmore Hall, Oxford International Song Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Ryedale Festival, Lammermuir Festival and Two Mores Festivals.

The 23/24 season highlights include a US tour of Handel’s Allegro and Bach’s B Minor Mass with Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra with two performances at Carnegie Hall, New York, performances with Early Opera Company, Les Talens Lyrique Lully’s Atys at l’Opera Royal de Versailles and at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Evangleist with Irish Baroque under Peter Whelan, Residentie Orkest under Richard Egarr and Stavanger Symfoniorkester under Masato Suzuki, George Benjamin’s Written on Skin (John/Angel 3) with the Finnish Radio Symphony conducted by the composer, Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music and the Flemish Radio Choir and Britten St Nicolas at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Miriam Allan
The “sublime singing” (Gramophone, 2017) of Soprano Miriam Allan has been enjoyed across the world, from her native Australia, through Japan and Singapore, as well as at festivals throughout Europe and North America and the Funeral of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Recent engagements saw her return to Australia for a recital tour of Haydn’s Canzonettes with fortepianist Erin Helyard, as well as performances of Vivaldi with Pinchgut Opera, productions of The Indian Queen (Purcell) in Caen, Antwerp and Luxembourg with Emmanelle Haim and Concert d’Astree, as well as Bach’s B Minor Mass with Berner Kammerchor, St Matthew Passion with John Butt and Dunedin Consort and two documentary recordings with Sir John Eliot Gardiner around the life and work of Monteverdi for Mezzo and Stage+. Recordings of Gesualdo Madrigals with Les Arts Florissants were awarded several international prizes.

Highlights during the 2021-22 season saw Miriam perform with Philippe Herreweghe & Collegium Vocale Gent; multiple projects with Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew, as well as engagements at the Wigmore Hall with Jonathan Cohen & Arcangelo; return performances for Christian Curnyn & Early Opera Company; Messiah in Madrid and Oxford with The Instruments of Time and Truth and concerts at King’s Place with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

“the vocal magic of the night…she took the audience’s breath away.”

On the opera stage she is a regular company soloist with Pinchgut Opera, for whom she has sung Isifile (Giasone, Cavalli) and Costanza (Griselda, Vivaldi). For the Innsbruck Festival she has sung Galatea (Acis & Galatea, Handel), whilst she has taken various roles in The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Comique, Paris, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Other roles include Queen of the Night (Magic Flute, Mozart), Musica and Proserpina (Orfeo, Monteverdi) and various roles in Dardanus, Rameau.

She has appeared alongside Sir John Eliot Gardiner & English Baroque Soloists, Masaaki Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan, Nicholas Collon & Aurora Orchestra and Lars Ulrik Mortensen & Concerto Copenhagen as well as conductors William Christie, Stephen Layton and Laurence Cummings and orchestras the BBC Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, Les Violins du Roy, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Academy of Ancient Music.

She has sung Mozart Mass in C Minor in Lincoln Centre, New York, Bach Magnificat in the Musikverein, Vienna, Handel Messiah in Sydney Opera House, Haydn Die Schöpfung at the Barbican, London, Rameau In Convertando in Chapelle Royale, Versailles and appeared in Mozart Opera Galas at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Salle Pleyel, Paris.

Her discography includes the Gramophone award winning series of Monteverdi Madrigals with Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew, with whom she can also be seen in the DVD release of Orfeo as Proserpina , as well as the Mozart Requiem with Leipzig Kammerorchester, a recital of Handel and Purcell on ABC Classics and Pinchgut Opera’s series of live recordings.

Reviewing the latter’s release of Giasone, Gramophone remarked that her “stylish [Isifile] steals the show several times,’ whilst Voix des Arts wrote of the same performance “the timbre is one of polished gold from the top to the bottom.”

The London Choral Sinfonia
is a dynamic professional ensemble, who specialise in bringing new life to a wide range of choral and orchestral music, striving to deliver world-class performances of mid-sized repertoire.

Each season the LCS performs in a number of concerts across London, at venues including Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square and Kings Place. These performances involve collaborations with emerging composers to commission new works, whilst also seeking to shine a light on lesser-known pieces in the canon of classical music.

Recent concerts have included ‘Colourise: Music from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ with violinist Jack Liebeck, and ‘Sword in the Soul: Music for Good Friday’. Each year the ensemble also enjoys smaller concerts, including their music and wine, Tasting Notes series, as well as private events and social gatherings for Friends of the LCS.

The ensemble’s 2023-24 Season sees the launch of two exciting new initiatives: a singing competition and a composition competition.

Since 2019 the LCS - in association with Orchid Classics - has released seven albums, ranging from popular Christmas music (O Holy Night) to a 3-disc project of more music by Richard Pantcheff. Recordings also feature world-premiere recordings by Vaughan Williams, a rediscovered cantata by Lennox Berkeley (Colourise), music for Passiontide (Sword in the Soul) and their newest release, a double disc of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. September 2023 sees the release of an album of music by Sir Stephen Hough.

Michael Waldron
is establishing himself as one of the leading conductors of his generation. His work has been praised in the national press and appears frequently in concerts in the UK and internationally.

Michael works regularly with many of the top choirs and orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Polyphony, London Mozart Players, Holst Singers, and City of London Choir.

Operatic collaborations including projects with the Royal Opera House, Iford Opera Festival, Buxton Festival Opera, West Green Opera, and Opera Della Luna, building on his experience in the worlds of vocal and instrumental music gained during his time as Organ Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge.

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