Richard Rodney Bennett

Memento is a work for Violin and Piano by Richard Rodney Bennett, composed in 2010. The work was written for violinist Ruth Palmer, for a memorial service in London for Dan Klein.

Six Country Dances is an anthology of tunes from Playford's 'The English Dancing Master' selected and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett. Playford's collection was first published in 1651 and containe...

Piano Score And Part (Tenor Saxophone)

Bennett 'A History Of The The Dansant' arranged for Mezzo Soprano and Piano. Commissioned for the twenty first anniversary of the Burnham Market Concerts. This work is a setting of poems by M R Peacoc...

Version for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of the New Generation artists scheme. The texts for the work were taken from the Oxf...

Three songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra with words by M. R. Peacocke.

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...

Kadinsky Variations was written in 1977. The movement titles of this work were suggested by paintings and graphic pieces by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).

Richard Rodney Bennett, 'Fanfare On A Sixteenth Century Tune' arranged for two Pianos. Score format, includes two separate parts.

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 1976

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...

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...

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...