Essential Classics -Sir Malcolm Arnold - "Peterloo"

[Guest]

I don't know how many people will know this work, but it was on before lunch today.

Incredible piece, IMO. I like all Arnold's music that I know (which certainly isn't all of it) so I'm biased in a way, but this was special. The orchestration is what you'd expect from such a master, and there were some of his long melodic lines that were as usual sublimely harmonised. But there was also a raw and very emotional side, too - especially when the drums strated so ominously. If you hadn't known what it was about, I think you'd have guessed, to an extent, anyway. A tone poem, really...!

Anyway, well worth listening again too, if anyone has ten minutes free!

S-S!

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't know how many people will know this work, but it was on before lunch today.

Incredible piece, IMO. I like all Arnold's music that I know (which certainly isn't all of it) so I'm biased in a way, but this was special. The orchestration is what you'd expect from such a master, and there were some of his long melodic lines that were as usual sublimely harmonised. But there was also a raw and very emotional side, too - especially when the drums strated so ominously. If you hadn't known what it was about, I think you'd have guessed, to an extent, anyway. A tone poem, really...!

Anyway, well worth listening again too, if anyone has ten minutes free!

S-S!

Right up your street, I would think, Simon:

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre

Should this be on the Choir board? I don't recall there being any chorus in this work.

[Simon]

Right up your street, I would think, Simon:

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre

Should this be on the Choir board? I don't recall there being any chorus in this work.

No it shouldn't - sorry. It's with this pre-mod thing - I have to fill in a form every time I post and I made an error.

Perhaps some official will move it to where it should be.



btw what do you mean by "right up my street"?

[french frank]

On yesterday's Essential Classics.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Would have been good to hear the Arnold "Peterloo Overture" again (instead of the perennial R3 Arnold favourites - Padstow Lifeboat and English/Scottish Dances) but as soon as I heard the oh so familiar The Flying Dutchman overture starting up I turned off. Looking at the rest of the programme which, apart from the Arnold, was the usual slice of over-played pieces I don't think I missed much.

[Thropplenoggin]

Would have been good to hear the Arnold "Peterloo Overture" again (instead of the perennial R3 Arnold favourites - Padstow Lifeboat and English/Scottish Dances) but as soon as I heard the oh so familiar gallop of the Ride of the Valkyries starting up I turned off. Looking at the rest of the programme which, apart from the Arnold, was the usual slice of over-played pieces I don't think I missed much.

I believe it was Der Fliegende Holländer: Overture

[Andrew Slater]

I don't know whether it was deliberate on the part of MA, but the beginning of this piece seems to me to be a cousin of the main St. Trinian's tune (which came before Peterloo). A way of introducing some levity into a dark subject, perhaps?