Malcolm Arnold 'English Dances' (Set 2) - Sir Adrian Boult conducts the LPO

[@ntnstern]

An underestimated composer and conductor-the best recording I ever heard of this wonderful music -thanks for posting this jewel!!!!!!!

[@rickydonutrm3165]

The most undervalued composer in this day and age. New Zealand radio hardly plays any of his symphonies. Must be some bigot residing in the programme department.

[@pljms]

It's ludicrous how Malcolm Arnold's music is virtually ignored in the UK. It's a sad fact that you're now much more likely to hear the Broadway songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein at the BBC Proms than Arnold's wonderful English Dances.

[@lawrencetendler2342]

Ignored because of snobbery ,Arnolds' music is terrific.

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Paul James Perhaps with the Arnold centenary coming up

[@smudger671]

Or some dreadful modern composer commissioned by the BBC.

[@jessforeman831]

he is my great uncle, grandpas uncle, love his jolly music xxx

[@VenomEmperor]

Played this a lot in high school that I know this piece like the back of my hand. I would love to play it with an orchestra.

[@derek24hudson]

Marvellous tunes, and masterly orchestration. Absolutely wonderful.

[@KARENK72886]

just heard this for the first time, and am in love with it...thanks.

[@colleenmcdermott5492]

same here

[@Kavismate]

Boult was the master of interpreting 20th century British music. A superb arrangement of this under rated work

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Arrangement? No. This is the original. It also exists as a piano duet and for brass band.

[@markyjkl]

What a brilliant piece!

[@jilltittley1613]

Boult the Great! Incomparable with LPO and their timeless recordings from the 1950’s!

[@peshawk]

I agree that is sad that Arnold's music is not played much in the UK. Some lovely music. I paricularly like the Scottish dances.

[@pljms]

Just lmagine how often his dances would be played if they'd been composed by either Britten or Vaughan-Williams?

[@lawrencetendler2342]

Arnold was a better composer .

[@poupee58]

Excellent music ,excellent conductor and excellent orchestra . Just perfectly played.

[@poupee58]

Wow ...Arnold was one helluva composer.

[@Merlin-lc4zu]

Featured as composer of the week on BBC Radio 3 at the moment.So anybody who is interested you can not only hear his music but also all about his life and battles with his demons on their site for the next few weeks.As said by many he is highly undervalued even in his homeland.

[@SovereignChancellor]

Magnificent music! Very British in character.

[@MrPoupard]

Asa Brit that had never occurred to me - but you're spot on.

[@MrPoupard]

I've never heard any American orchestra play anything by Arnold, the big 5 that is.

[@mikefuller6959]

I love this music!

[@heterosectional]

Really great performance! I hope the remaining English Dances are here on YT.

[@DeepBlueDream96]

We're playing this in the band at my high school

[@stellarris4878]

The II truly feels like a film ending when a soldier from the war sees his love on a field then they meet each other on a sunny day with a gentle breeze.

[@colinglass1342]

⭐🇬🇧 Im so glad I'm brittish THIS MUSIC IS ONE OF MY ALLTIME FAVOURITE CLASSICAL PEICES OF MUSIC. The music to What THE papers say although it's a very short peices but part of a longer peice very well conducted Does any one REMEMBER that program from granada tv 📺FROM THE 1970Ss WHAT THE PAPERS SAY THE MUSIC I SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER I ALWAYS WONDERD WHAT THIS MUSIC WAS WHO CONDUCTED IT now I know.And I know the music to itv seventies series THIS WEEK SIBILIOUS FIFTH SYMPHONY and WORLD IN ACTION

[@kjmeyers86]

I- 00:00 II- 2:45 III- 4:15 IV- 6:35

[@WorldNews92]

This week, What The Papers Say is read by Charles Moore of the Daily Telegraph...

[@christophernunn943]

Today it would be read from the pages of the Guardian!!

[@martindytham7705]

Lovely..just lovely

[@colleenmcdermott5492]

the 2nd sequence is exquisite with horns, bells, strings. heard this for 1st time recently on local npr station.

[@camello1995]

fm91?

[@colleenmcdermott5492]

Minnesota public radio

[@buildsbest]

Lovely. Thanks for uploading.

[@SuperHans64]

The first dance was used as the theme music for the UK TV programme "What the Paper's Say".

[@rainbowmerlin1]

thanks - I was trying to remember where I'd heard it before!

[@MrPoupard]

Yes you're right.

[@rays7437]

Our high school marching band won the ISSMA state championship playing this. Our version was called "Son of English Dances."

[@sub-zeroseanotrs1857]

how can a band of any sort (especially one with marching involved) possibly have the required expression for this?

[@07regia]

Wonderful as ballet music. The Royal Ballet's "Solitaire," the Washington Ballet's "Roundabout."

[@spinback72]

That ending...oh man!!

[@thatonekid13579]

I just played this in high school band. the bassoon part is a bear

[@jonatron01]

thatonekid13579 especially the 6th movement

[@rickyt8131]

Is the part at the beginning for the flute or piccolo

[@aqualoon9120]

Ricky Taing piccolo

[@MrPoupard]

About 4 years after this was issued the Philharmonia conducted by Robert Irving recorded the same set No 2 - a far superior orchestra and recording imho. For many years Dance No 2 opened up BBC Radio 3's daily broadcasts.

[@karldelavigne8134]

And the first of these dances introduced What The Papers Say.

[@smudger671]

I disagree - the The Boult recording has superior sound (albeit mono) and I don't hear how one orchestra is far superior to the other.

[@MrPoupard]

@@smudger671 There's a huge gulf in quality between the Philharmonia of the 1950s and the LPO of the same period. We'll disagree.

[@smudger671]

@@MrPoupard Can't argue with you as I wasn't born early enough to hear the orchestras in the 1950's. I assume you were?

[@adam28xx]

@@smudger671 ... The Irving / Philharmonia recording of the complete Arnold "English Dances" is right here on KZbin, so anyone can hear both. According to the info under the video, and also a Music-Web International review, this recording was made in 1953, so it pre-dates the Boult version ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmbNY4yogb2oZ9k

[@yoshschnittke6845]

Es un sintoma de esquizofrenia: ser un genio!

[@gwendolineroom8240]

What film or tv was this music a theme for

[@philippalmer2741]

I Think it was What The Papers Say.

[@hollyrhodeshr]

I'm doing ballet to this

[@jrich78759]

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[@scabbycatcat4202]

Arnold was a bit of a nutcase. He shot himself in the foot to get out of the army. But every genius seems to have a hangup somewhere !!

[@geoffwalker9392]

I think he *wanted* to serve in the military (he volunteered) but wasn't happy when they put him in the band rather than letting him be a fighting soldier.

[@Kidderman2210]

The demands of writing film music took its toll. Over a hundred film scores in just over 20 years- that's five a year!

[@scabbycatcat4202]

@@geoffwalker9392 i don't think so.

[@scabbycatcat4202]

@@Kidderman2210 You could equally say thank heavens he was gainfully employed over a full 20 years doing something he enjoyed and was passionate about which gave him a reason for living .

[@ianstewart290]

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[@ianstewart290]

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