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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... and, particularly in spooky October, how can I not share my favourite work "Tam o' Shanter" (after Burns). by Alexander Goudie, from an impressive cycle of paintings inspired by the poem, now held by the South Ayrshire Council

https://t.co/z2eVJP1cFd

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