Richard Rodney Bennett

The Garden - A Serenade to Glimmerglass was commissioned by Nicholas Russell for Glimmerglass Opera in honor of Stewart Robertson for its Young American Artists Program. Written for 16 voices and pian...

For Jonathan Manners and DeChorum, on the occasion of the Cancer Research UK Carol Service at All Saints Church, Weston-super-Mare - 22 December 2008.

The playful side of versatile British composer, conductor, arranger and performer Richard Rodney Bennett comes to the fore with this delightful setting of seven nonsensical poems by Mervyn Peake. It w...

Scored for mixed chorus and organ set to text by William Wordsworth (Intimations of Immortality). This work was uniquely commissioned by the New Cambridge Singers and a consortium of 15 other choirs f...

The suggestion that I write my autobiography was made at a time when anyone who did not write one risked being called eccentric. It became, and still is, a major sport among the oldsters. Some of the...

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Actaeon is a concertante piece for Orchestra and Solo Horn, composed in 1977. A virtuoso and versatile composer, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was able to turnhis hand to a...

Suite For Skip And Sadie was inspired by the antics of the composer's cats who lived with him in his New York apartment. These four attractive and accessible pieces are for piano duettists of equal ab...

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Work for 4 Trumpets, 2 Tenor Trombones and 2 Bass Trombones.

For Coro and their conductor Mark Griffiths on the occasion of the choir's tenth anniversary, December 2010.

Composed in 2010 by Richard Rodney Bennett to words translated by J. B. Trend (1887-1958) from 'The Oxford Book Of Carols'.

Puer Nobis is an expressive choral work of a text upon the Nativity, wonderfully illuminating Bennett's gift of setting words naturally without ever losing sight of their meaning.

The setting of a blissfully pastoral text by Henry King, written for SAATB chorus by Richard Rodney Bennett.

However often Bennett may have employed serial techniques or introduced jazz and modern elements into his work, his Choral compositions are always tonal and melodic. In A Farewell To Arms he displays...

Richard Rodney Bennett 'Town And Country' arranged for unaccompanined SSAATTBB. Duration 7 minutes.