Richard Rodney Bennett: Anspruchsvolle Noten

Murder On The Orient Express Theme, composed by Richard Rodney Bennett, from Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express, arranged for piano solo.

Is written in two movements. The slower opening movement is impressionistic and crystalline with the marimba serving as an obligate over the orchestral harmonies. Only in the two cadenzas does the mar...

Commissioned by the Harrogate International Festival. Written for and dedicated to Alexander Baillie. Duration 21 minutes. Includes score and part.

Composed in 1978, this arrangement of Richard Rodney Bennett's Concerto For Double Bass includes a Piano reduction of the orchestral material.

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...

This piece was written for the Nash Ensemble, for their concerto to mark the composer's 50th birthday, given at Wigmore Hall, London, in May 1986. It was composed during August 1985 in New York City,...

Alba is one of Bennett's serialism-tinged works that also touches on medieval rhythmic modes. He based the work on the Tema Seriale from Cantata Academica by Benjamin Britten, to whom Alba is dedicate...

I responded to this exciting but rather daunting commission by writing a very lively and I hope very accessible piece, which, I decided before I started composing, should be full of tunes. I wrote it...

Commissioned by Leslie Bishop for John Harle and London Music (1988) and dedicated to John Harle. Duration 16 minutes. Alto Saxophone and Piano reduction.

Composed in 1985, for Clarinet and Piano. The piece was commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival, with additional funds from South West Arts and the Royal Over-Seas League. It was first performed on 17...

Richard Rodney Bennett's piece for solo Piano, based upon a melody by the celebrated French composer and performer Henry Dutilleux.