The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Volume 1 (Incls Bridge on the River Kwai & Hobson's Choice )

'This splendid CD is as much a tribute to the skills of the late Christopher Palmer who created the suites for this recording as it is to the performers and engineers and the ever-imaginative Arnold.'
Gramophone

'Malcolm Arnold wrote well over 100 film scores, and it was the music for The Bridge on the Rive Kwai (as the composer acknowledged) that put his name before a wider public. All this music is superbly played by Richard Hickox and the LSO (who obviously relish the often virtuoso instrumental scoring) and the recording is as lavish as anyone could wish - very much in the Chandos demonstration bracket.'
(Penguin Guide)

Richard Hickox is one of Britain's leading conductors, recipient of the 1995 Philharmonic Society Music Award, three Gramophone Awards, the Diapason d'Or, the Deutsche Schalplattenpreis and a Grammy (for Britten's Peter Grimes). He is founder and Music Director of the City of London Sinfonia and (with Simon Standage) of Collegium Musicum 90, Associate Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of the Northern Sinfonia.

Operatic engagements have included Los Angeles Opera, Rome Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opera North and English National Opera. He has guest conducted in Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Tokyo (New Japan Philharmonic), and the radio orchestras of Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris (Orchestre philharmonique), the Berlin Symphony, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, and the Camerata Academica Salzburg at the Vienna Easter Festival.

Richard Hickox records exclusively for Chandos, for whom he celebrated his one hundredth recording in 1997. Future plans include works by Grainger, Rubbra, Bruch, Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Delius and Schmidt.