Those who think of Malcolm Arnold as the composer of sparkling orchestral music and highly successful film scores will be delighted and perhaps surprised at the feast of smaller-scale treasures on this recording, several of them recorded here for the first time. They span virtually his entire composing life from the early Constant Lambert-inspired Overture for Wind Octet to the enigmatic Duo (Divertimento) for Two Clarinets written after serious mental illness and a number of years of compositional silence.
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