Richard Rodney Bennett

Composer, performer and arranger Richard Rodney Bennett was internationally respected for his serious music and many award-winning film scores (Murder on the Orient Express, Nicholas and Alexandra) as...

Composed in 1984

Commissioned by the Swaledale Festival for a performance by the Royal Holloway Choir and Acoustic Triangle in Richmond, North Yorkshire on 26th May 2012. Sir Thomas Brown (1605-1608) always used this,...

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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