MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold - Symphony No. 6 / Fantasy on a Theme of John Field / etc

"As his Symphony No. 6, completed in the summer of 1967, shows, Arnold was as great a symphonist as Tippet or Walton, but he was a harder, tougher, and sharper composer than them. And such a cornball: the Sixth has pages of solemn and profound thought juxtaposed against page after page after page of vulgar banality....And, amazingly enough, Vernon Handley is such a serious and conscientious conductor and the Royal Philharmonic performs Arnold's Sixth with such gusto and virtuosity that it all works." AllMusic.com