Program Highlights

German composer, sculptor, and co-director of the Berlin Opera, whose instrumental works were frequently performed in Germany and Central Europe.

Malcolm Arnold – the centenary of whose birth we celebrate on 21 October – was subject throughout his life to severe depression and extreme mood swings which, with acute alcoholism, led to several suicide attempts.

“Jimmy ‘lit a bonfire’ with his superb playing … playing that embraces all the elements of the greatest artistry.”