Richard Rodney Bennett

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...

Richard Rodney Bennett presents a set of delightful yet simple Piano pieces based around the traditional song of the Twelve Days Of Christmas. This particular title contains pieces seven to twelve, an...