Malcolm Arnold's ballet Sweeney Todd was first staged in 1959 by The Royal Ballet Company with choreography by John Cranko. The music was later adapted as a concert work and it is from this version that this brass band arrangement is made. The original concert suite lasts some 20 minutes but this version has been shortened to a more manageable eight minutes. The first performance of this arrangement was given on the 22nd October 2006 at the Malcolm Arnold Festival Derngate Northampton by the Rushden Windmill Band conducted by Richard Graves. Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section. Duration 8 minutes.

from the ballet 'Solitaire'. Par ARNOLD MALCOLM / SPARKE PHILIP (Arr.). En 1956, Sir Kenneth MacMillan créa un ballet en un acte pour le ballet du théâtre de Sadler?s Wells, à Londres. Il sélectionna la musique de plusieurs des English Dances (Danses anglaises) que Sir Malcolm Arnold avait composées en 1950 et 1951 et avaient été fort bien reçues. Le compositeur écrivit deux nouvelles danses, une Sarabande et une Polka, spécialement pour le ballet, qui fut créé au théâtre de Sadler?s Wells en juin 1956. Devenues des ?uvres à part entière dans les salles de concert, ces nouvelles danses sont typiques d?Arnold : la Sarabande contient l?une de ses mélodies les plus mémorables, tandis que la Polka le montre sous son jour le plus excentrique et spirituel. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Répertoire / Brass Band

for Brass Ensemble-Written for the inaugural Farnham Festival in 1961 Festival Fanfare from Malcolm Arnold is scored for 5 French Horns 6 Trumpets 5 Trombones Tuba Cymbals and Timpani.

Little Suite for Orchestra No. 1: Op 53-Malcolm Arnold is one Britain’s best-loved composers. In 1948 he composed a very short suite for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain - entitled simply To Youth. Seven years later he took To Youth and made some fairly major revisions including a complete new movement and the Little Suite for Orchestra was born. The Little Suite for Orchestra follows a very similar pattern to the later suites for brass band starting with a bold strident Prelude which strangely ends quietly before a lovely lilting Dance composed in 3/8 time. Finally a rollicking and militaristic March brings the suite to a conclusion. This arrangement for brass band by Robin Norman is sure tobecome a classic in the brass band repertoire.

Fanfare For Malcolm has been beautifully composed for 3 Trumpets and 3 Trombones by Toby Young. Specially commissioned for the 8th Malcolm Arnold Festival Toby Young's brilliant Fanfare catches both the wit and ceremony of the master's style.

Written in 1966 Arnold drew on a more personal inspiration for these dances rather than folk music. Transcribed by Ray Farr the music depicts the fishermen farm workers and tin miners native to Cornwall going about their lives - it also includes a brief visit to the local Methodist chapel for a Sunday morning sevice!

This new Leyland Band release features seven first-time recordings including 'The Alchymist’s Journal' by Kenneth Hesketh and 'Four Sketches' by Simon Dobson - the winning entry in the 2002 European Brass Band Composer Competition. Soloist James Gourlay performs the brass band arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto. Other works included are 'Global Variations' and 'Thames Journey' by Nigel Hess 'RPM' and 'Headbanger' by Matthew Hindson 'Peterloo' by Malcolm Arnold and the comical encore piece 'Keystone Kops' by Carl Davis.