Richard Rodney Bennett

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...

Anthem for unaccompanied SATB. Set to words by Clement Paman. Piano accompaniment included for rehearsal use.

Richard Rodney Bennett's New Year Carol set for SATB chorus unaccompanied.

Richard Rodney Bennett sets the text of popular sixteenth-century Christmas carol, Coventry Carol, for SATB chorus unaccompanied. Commissioned and first performed by YiRu Hall and the Portsmouth Gramm...

Commissioned by Jerry Johnson and VocalEssence in memory of JoAnn Catherine Johnson First performed on 7th December 2008 at the VocalEssence 'Welcome Christmas' concert. For SATB unaccompanied chorus...

This is Bennett's first collection of choral pieces written specifically for the Christmas season. These four carols to American texts recall traditional music of the New World, the composer's home fo...

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...