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Northampton School for Boys
Billing Road
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 5RT
England
Tickets
Prices: Day Ticket £18, Under 18s / Students FREE
Book Tickets
Programme
Malcolm Arnold – Wind Quintet, Op.2
Malcolm Arnold – Sonata for flute and piano (1940, rev.1942)
Malcolm Arnold – Sonata for Piano
Malcolm Arnold – Three Sea Shanties for Wind Quintet, Op.4
Performers
Julia Klampfer – flute
Myrthe Egberink – oboe
Hannah Shimwell – clarinet
Molly Bielecki – horn
Jon Churchett – bassoon
Sabina Suciu – piano
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Programme Note
A concert of pieces written by the 21-year old Malcolm Arnold.
Julian Lloyd Webber launches a day of live performances of Arnold’s music for strings, wind and brass from 11am in the composer’s hometown at Cripps Hall, to include the Cello Fantasy played by Jiaxin Cheng Lloyd Webber, and an evening Gala concert performed by Northampton Symphony Orchestras at St James' Church.
Arnold completed his Piano Sonata in 1942 at just 21 years old. It is an enigmatic work, reflecting not so much the glories of the Arnolds' Cornish holiday as the war that was raging beyond. The first movement, in traditional sonata form, has a restlessness about it, a strongly dissonant second subject never allowing the calmer first subject to settle. The short Andante with its gentle, blues-tinged love theme is desperately sad, and roughly broken into by the third movement, a ghoulish military march. A candid portrait of the young composer.
Enjoy access to all daytime concerts by purchasing a low cost day pass, with the evening concert priced separately. Tickets are available from the website or on the door.
You can also find full details of the complete programme on Classical Events.
The festival continues with a live-stream on Sunday 1st November presenting a programme themed around Arnold's music of 1956 and a discovery of his piano repertoire.
