Richard Rodney Bennett

Arranged for Oboe (or Soprano Saxophone) and Piano.

Richard Rodney Bennett's A Song at Evening for voices and small orchestra was commissioned by Jesus College Cambridge, in gratitude for the work of Robert and Margaret Mair, and first performed at St...

Richard Rodney Bennett's Sounds And Sweet Aires for Flute, Oboe and Piano.

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,...

Scored for tenor saxophone, timp and strings. First performed on 1st August 1992. Full Score.

Work for Double Woodwind Quintet, based on the sixteenth century French popular song A l'ombre d'un buissonet, first printed in La Couronne et Fleur (1536).

Work for Double Woodwind Quintet, based on the sixteenth century French popular song A l'ombre d'un buissonet, first printed in La Couronne et Fleur (1536).

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...

Richard Rodney Bennet's Symphony No. 3 commissioned for the 1987 Three Choirs Festival by the Elgar Foundation with additional funds from West Midlands Arts is now published in a facsimile studyscore....

Composed in 1986

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...