Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was an English composer and pianist. He was noted for his musical versatility, drawing from such sources as jazz, romanticism, and avant-garde; and for his use of twelve-tone technique and serialism. His body of work included over 200 concert works and 50 scores for film…

Albums

• Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 (2025)
• I Watch You Sleep (2023)
• Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 (2020)
• Symphony No.1 / A History of the Thé Dansant / Zodiac / Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune (2019)
• BBC Music, Volume 26, Number 12: Saxophone Concerto / Reflections on a 16th-Century Tune (2018)
• Orchestral Works Volume 2 (2018)
• The Glory and the Dream: Choral Music by Richard Rodney Bennett (2018)
• Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2017)
• British Works for Cello and Piano, Volume 4 (2015)
• Hymns to Saint Cecilia (2014)
• Letters to Lindbergh (2013)
• Say It Isn't So (2013)
• Nocturnal (2013)
• Witchcraft (2011)
• Songs Before Sleep (2010)
• Words & Music (2007)
• Symphonies of Wind Instruments (2005)
• The Mines of Sulphur (2005)
• When Lights are Low (2005)
• Sea Change: The Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett (2005)
• Complete Works for Solo Piano (2004)
• Murder On The Orient Express - Lady Caroline Lamb (2004)
• Love From a Stranger: Four British Film Scores (2004)
• The Film Music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (2000)
• English Guitar Music (1997)
• Diversions / Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 3 (James DePreist, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo) (1996)
• Sax Drive (1995)
• A Different Side of Sondheim (1995)
• This Green Tide (1995)
• Richard Rodney Bennett Plays George Gershwin's Solo Piano Works (1993)
• Rebounds (1992)
• I Never Went Away ... (1990)
• Lush Life (1988)
• The Planets (1987)
• Town and Country (1978)
• New Music From Britain (1965)
• The Midnight Thief (1964)
• Alexa Still, flute (New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, James Sedares, Susan DeWitt Smith)
• John Harle Collection