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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.
Bennett was born at Broadstairs, Kent, but was raised in Devon during World War II. His mother, Joan Esther (Spink), was a pianist who had trained with Gustav Holst and sang in the first professional performance of The Planets. His father, Rodney Bennett, (1890-1948) was a children's book author and poet, who worked with Roger Quilter on his theatre works and provided new words for some of the numbers in the Arnold Book of Old Songs.
Bennett was a pupil at Leighton Park School. He later studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Howard Ferguson, Lennox Berkeley and Cornelius Cardew. Ferguson regarded him as extraordinarily brilliant, having perhaps the greatest talent of any British composer in his generation, though lacking in a personal style. During this time, Bennett attended some of the Darmstadt summer courses in 1955, where he was exposed to serialism. He later spent two years in Paris as a student of the prominent serialist Pierre Boulez between 1957 and 1959. He always used both his first names after finding another Richard Bennett active in music.
Tracklist 01.- 0:00 - I Never Went Away (Richard Rodney Bennett) 02.- 3:28 - A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (M. Sherwin/E. Mashwitz) 03.- 7:40 - Paper Moon (Harold Arlen/Harbury/Rose) 04.- 11:24 - Let’s Take the Long Way Home (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer) 05.- 14:02 - These Foolish Things (Holt Marvell/Jack Strachey/Harry Link) 06.- 17:25 - Home Thoughts from Abroad (Clifford Bord) 07.- 21:09 - You’d be so Nice to Come Home to (Cole Porter) 08.- 23:15 - I Thought About You (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Mercer) 09.- 26:32 - The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein III) 10.- 30:40 - Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke) 11.- 34:49 - Do You Miss New York? (David Frishberg) 12.- 38:13 - Paris is My Old Kentucky Home (Coleman) 13.- 40:03 - If You Were the Only Girl in the Worl...
Richard Rodney Bennett(1936-2012): Symphony No. 1 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, conducting. Richard Rodney Bennett was an English composer who spent much of his time in New York composing jazz, film music, and television scores as well as concert music. His Symphony No. 1 (of three symphonies) was completed in 1965 and originally recorded by RCA Victor on vinyl with Igor Buketoff conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. (Rare used copies are available at several used and rare record sellers online.) The present uploaded recording was the first Boston Symphony Orchestra performance, Colin Davis conducting, on October 25, 1968. 0:00 Introduction: WIlliam Pierce 3:05 Symphony No. 1
Richard Rodney Bennett Summer Music for flute and piano 1. Summer Music 2. Siesta 3.Games Angelo Ragno flute Ettore Papadia piano Auditorium della Fondazione Paolo Grassi di Martina Franca (TA) 08 maggio 2013 www.angeloragno.com
Richard Rodney Bennett: Oboe Concerto (1971) Conducted by Paul Sacher. English Chamber Orchestra. Heinz Holliger, oboe.
Prelude and Epilogue from the Original 1967 MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording, composed by Richard Rodney Bennett and conducted by Marcus Dods.
Brian Diller, conductor CCM Wind Orchestra April 14, 2015. Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati
This highlight from the 2015 Southwell Music Festival – from the programme Voices on Water on Thursday 27th August – features a magical setting of Caliban’s famous speech from Shakespeare’s The Tempest – ‘The isle is full of noises’ – from Richard Rodney Bennett’s work Sea Change. The Southwell Festival Voices are conducted by Festival Founder and Artistic Director Marcus Farnsworth. This is the fourth of 12 highlights from the 2015 Southwell Music Festival to be published – one each day – to celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas 2015. All the published highlights from the 2015 and 2014 Festival are available via the Festival’s YouTube channel. Southwell Music Festival takes place in the small cathedral town of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England, UK. This annual classical music fes...