This afternoon's listening: all three commercial recordings of Symphony No. 8, one of his most striking and disturbing scores and his last major work before a seven-year creative silence during which he was hospitalised and treated for depression.

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to two of the four commercial recordings of Arnold's powerful Symphony No. 3: Vernon Handley & (the orchestra that commissioned and premiered it) followed by the composer with (in which he once played trumpet).

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