Browse: Orchestral, Symphonies, Arnell (composer)

Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way — Gramophone Magazine, April 2010 More…

Written in London between 1955 and 1957 and revised seven years later, Richard Arnell's Fifth Symphony is an enormously sincere, patiently argued statement, full of rhetorical grandeur and unapologetically... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…Arnell…completed the third of his six symphonies in August 1945. …an enormously ambitious canvas… whose staggering reserves of energy, affirmative spirit and lack of inhibition should gain... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 More…

[The Bate] is a grippingly argued utterance, full of durable invention, compellingly paced...[The Arnell] is a big-hearted statement, often angular and not afraid of embracing dissonance, yet... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…