Richard Arnell: Elegy Musica Nova Orchestra, Warren Cohen conductor

Recorded at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on April 11, 2010. Richard Tony Arnell (19172009) was a British composer who studied composition with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music. In 1939 he was in New York visiting the World s Fair when war broke out and he ended up spending the next eight years in the US. During this time he met Sir Thomas Beecham, who was to become his most ardent champion; he was prolific and happy, and his first three quartets and Symphonies date from this peri