Study score of Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No.6 Op.95.

'[...]a bleak unease in the unrelenting energy of the first movement, which becomes even more discomforting 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, The Gramophone.