". . .a bleak unease in the unrelenting energy of the first movement, which becomes even more discomfiting in the desolate start to the Lento. This leads to a forlorn suggestion of a funeral march, which then ironically quickens in pace but is suddenly cut down; the drum strokes become menacingly powerful and the despairing mood of the movement's opening returns. . . and grips the listener in the music's pessimism. . ."
Ivan March, Gramophone, December 1995
| ISBN: | 9780571501878 |
| Publication date: | 15th July 1974 |
| Author: | Malcolm Arnold |
| Publisher: | Faber Music |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 132 pages |
| Genres: |
Musical scores, lyrics and libretti |