Overture for Wind Octet
Malcolm Arnold (arr. Uwe Radok)
General Info
Year: 1940 / 2004
Duration: c. 3:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano four-hands
Publisher: Queen's Temple Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £12.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Unpublished for over 60 years, this typically characterful work is very much in the style of Sir Malcolm's great film scores of the fifties and sixties.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- l'Otto Vent (Montreal, Que., Can.) – 20 May 2013
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Brass Quintet No. 2 (1987)
- Concerto for Oboe and Strings (arr. Watts) (1952)
- Divertimento for Wind Octet (1988)
- English Dances, Book One (tr. Johnstone) (1950/1965)
- English Dances, Book Two (tr. Herbert) (1951/1989)
- English Dances, Book Two (tr. Sudduth) (1951/)
- English Dances Set 2 (tr. Thompson) (1951/)
- Fanfare for a Festival (arr. McDermott) (1955/1986/2000)
- Flourish for a Battle (1989)
- Four Cornish Dances (tr. Marciniak) (1966/)
- Four Scottish Dances (tr. Paynter) (1957/1978)
- Four Welsh Dances (tr. Parkes) (1989/2003)
- A Grand, Grand Overture (tr. Wilson) (1956/1983)
- H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge (1957)
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (arr. Suzuki) (1958/)
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (arr. Senoo) (1958/1998)
- March from "A Little Suite" (arr. Sumner) (1955/1965)
- Overseas (1960)
- Overture for Wind Octet (1940/2004)
- The Padstow Lifeboat, op. 94 (arr. Woodfield) (1966)
- Peterloo Overture (tr. Sayre) (1968/1989)
- Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (tr. Paynter) (1963/1979)
- Quintet for Two Trumpets, Horn, Trombone and Tuba (1961/2004)
- The River Kwai March (1957)
- The River Kwai March (arr. Longfield) (1957/2017)
- Sarabande and Polka from "Solitaire" (tr. Paynter) (1956/1983)
- Symphony for Brass, op. 123 (1978)
- Symphony No. 2: Allegretto and Vivace, op. 40 (tr. Parkes) (1953/)
- Symphony No. 2: Finale, op. 40 (tr. Sudduth) (1953/)
- Tam O'Shanter Overture, op. 51 (tr. Paynter) (1955/1991)
- Three Sea Shanties (1943)
- Trevelyan Suite, op. 96 (1967)
- Variations on a Theme of Ruth Gipps (trans. Braddock) (1978/2019)
- Water Music, op. 82 (1964/1993)
Resources
- Arnold, M.; Radok, U. [2004]. Overture for Wind Octet [score]. Queen's Temple Publications: Buckingham, Eng.
- Pease, Andy. "Overture for Wind Octet by Malcolm Arnold." Wind Band Literature, 19 November 2021. Web. Accessed 19 November 2021