Malcolm Arnold: Symphonie Nr.9 (CD)

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)

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+alcolm Arnold im Gespräch mit Andrew Penny (in engl. Spr.)

Künstler:: National SO of Ireland, Andrew Penny
Label:: Naxos
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 1995
Artikelnummer:: 7639290
UPC/EAN:: 0730099454025
Erscheinungstermin:: 28.2.1996

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The Ninth Symphony was eventually completed, by then several years behind schedule, on 5th September 1986, at Wymondham in Norfolk. Embarrassment then ensued, as first the BBC -where there had been a change of management, both in Manchester and in London -and Arnold's then publisher, Faber Music, took fright at the score, which was radically different from the composer's previous symphonies. The BBC's original commission was still not renewed. Sir Charles Groves meanwhile conducted a run-through of the symphony for the composer's benefit in early 1988 in Greenwich, by the Orchestra of the National Centre for Orchestral Studies (now disbanded). Sir Charles believed in the piece, and at his insistence efforts to secure a first professional and public performance elsewhere continued, without success. It was not until the showing of a film about Malcolm Arnold in the 'Omnibus' series of BBC-1's, timed to co-incide with his seventieth birthday, that the tide began to turn. The film included Arnold conducting the closing pages of the symphony. When Sir Malcolm Arnold came to Manchester to hear the Halle and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras perform several of his earlier symphonies as part of an Arnold- Haydn Celebration in November, 1991, in which Sir Charles conducted a memorable account of the Seventh, a happy combination of circumstances led to the eventual unveiling of the new symphony on a very cold Manchester night in January the following year: over five years having elapsed since its completion.
Ever since Beethoven, writing a Ninth Symphony has been for a composer something akin to climbing Mount Everest -the summation of a lifetime's achievement. In addition there has come to be something fatalistic about the very idea of a Ninth Symphony. To take two nearer examples, Bruckner died before he could complete what would have been the longest of his symphonies, while Mahler's Ninth was written in the shadow of his fatal illness. Shostakovich -much admired by Malcolm Arnold -was so over-awed by the burden of this musical tradition that he deliberately stood it on its head and wrote a lightweight piece. Arnold himself has admitted to being daunted by the weight of musical history; not surprising when we discover that it was written after a five-year period when the composer had, in his own words, "been through hell".

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H. Arnold in stereoplay 7/96: "Die irischen Nationalsymphoniker bewältigen diesen Brocken unter der souveränen Stabführung von Andrew Penny mit beachtlicher Perfektion und in den Bläsern brillant. Beeindruckende CD-Premiere."