Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]

50 Best Romantic Piano Classics - Popular romantic classics for solo piano or piano & orchestra

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; The Seasons, Op. 47b; Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Conc...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Ahn Trio; Alexeev, Dmitri; Andsnes, Leif Ove; Angelich, Nicholas; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Bran, Tim; Collard, Jean-Phillipe; Donohoe, Peter; Duchable, Francois-Rene ...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Marriner, Sir Neville; Maksymiuk, Jerzy; Thompson, Bryden; Galliera, Alceo; Jansons, Mariss; Foster, Lawrence; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; ...
Ensemble: ; Rostal & Schaefer Piano Duo

This 3-CD set contains 50 tracks of romantic piano music from catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics performed by some of the world's finest...continue...

Essential American Classics - Over 2 hours of America's best-loved classical music

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-06-05

Works: Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Bamboula, danse des nègres for piano, Op. 2, D. 13 (RO 20); Stephen Foster: My Old Kentucky Home, for voice & piano; Beautiful dreamer; Edward MacDowell: To a Wild Rose;...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Barclay, John; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Carter, Regina [Violin]; Criswell, Kim; Gardner, Simon; Glaser, Matt; Goodchild, Mark; Hampson, Thomas; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Voc...
Conductors: Foley, Timothy; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Slatkin, Leonard; Slatkin, Felix; Richardson, Neil; McGlinn, John; Thomas, Michael Tilson; Bátiz, Enrique; Davies, Dennis R.; Paavo, Järvi; Warren-Green,...

The Super Audio Collection, Vol. 5 / A Linn Records Sampler

1 Super Audio CD / Linn Records / 2011-08-30

Works: Barb Jungr: Sara, song; Fernando Sor: Three Minuets, Op. 11; Nigel Clark: Moon Blue, song; Fiona Mackenzie: When the Sunny Sky Has Gone, song; Claire Martin: With Every Breath I Take, song; Francis P...
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Beznosiuk, Pavlo; Bryan, Katherine [Flute]; Carter, William; Clark, Nigel; Harvey, Peter Harvey; Jungr, Barb; Kidd, Carol; Mackenzie, Fiona; Martin, Claire [Vocals...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Avison Ensemble; Classical Opera Company; Dunedin Consort; Magnificat (UK); Phantasm (Viol Consort); Retrospect Ensemble; The Prince Consort (Vocal Ensemble)

The fifth volume of the popular sampler series from Gramophone's current 'Label of the Year' features an appealing selection of tracks from its catalogue of...continue...

Duke Ellington

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-17

Works: Duke Ellington: Caravan; Le Sucrier Velours; The Mooche; Sultry Sunset; Minnehaha; Isfahan, song; Sonnet for Caesar; Star-Crossed Lovers, song; In a Mellotone; I let a song go out of my heart; Don't ...
Performers: Barclay, John; Beckett, Edward; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Brooks, Stuart; Downey, Alan; Eastop, Philip; Edwards, Terry [Bass Vocal]; Findon, Andrew; Harle, John; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano...
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Ensemble: Monty Alexander Trio

BBC Music Magazine
The Duke might have bridled at John Harle's arrangement of Ellington standards, but the saxophonist's virtuosity would have brought him to his feet.
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British Composers: A Celebration / EMI

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite no 1, Op. 1a no 4; Symphony no 1 in A flat, Op. 55; Ave Maria, Op. 2 no 2; Quartet for Strings in E minor, Op. 83; Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 no 1; Falstaff; Dream Chil...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Bowen, John; Bramma, Harry; Brown, Wilfred; Dilkes, Neville; Donohoe, Pete...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Willcocks, David; Boult, Adrian; Walton, William; Harding, Daniel; Robinson, Christopher; Wordsworth, Barry; Finzi, Christopher; Bliss, Sir Arthur; Goodall, Reginald; Davies, M...
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Britten String Quartet; London Music Group; The Band of the Royal Military School of Music Kne

Taking a panoramic view of British music between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries, this fascinating collection features some 30 composers. From the...continue...

George Gershwin, Jerome Kern: Songs & Piano Music/Various

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-05-04

Works: George Gershwin: Little Jazz Bird, song (from Lady, Be Good!, musical); Bess, Oh Where's My Bess; Oh, Kay!; Preludes (3) for piano; Walking the Dog, promenade for piano or orchestra (arrangement from...
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Tuckwell, Barry [French Horn]
Conductors: Richardson, Neil

Bennett: Piano Concerto, 5 Studies for Piano, etc

1 CD / Lyrita / 2008-01-08

Works: Richard Rodney Bennett: Concerto for Piano no 1; Studies (5) for piano; Capriccio, for piano duet; Commedia IV, for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone & tuba
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Kovacevich, Stephen; Musgrave, Thea
Conductors: Gibson, Alexander, Sir

Williamson: Piano Concerto no 3, Organ Concerto, etc

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-11-13

Works: Malcolm Williamson: Organ Concerto; Concerto for Piano no 3 in E flat; Sonata for 2 pianos
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Williamson, Malcolm
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Dommett, Leonard
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Legendary performances on CD for the first time! Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003) was born in Australia, but came to London in 1950 and remained there for...continue...

Holst: The Planets - Two-Piano Version / Bennett, Bradshaw

1 CD / Delos / 2007-06-07

Works: Gustav Holst: The Planets, for 2 pianos (original version of work), Op. 32, H. 125
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Bradshaw, Susan

Bennett: Words and Music

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-02-13

Works: Richard Rodgers: It Might as Well Be Spring, song (from film "State Fair"); Tony Hatch: Don't Sleep In The Subway; James Van Heusen: Get Rid of Monday, song; George Gershwin: Oh, Kay!; How Long Has T...
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]

Having regularly performed cabaret in the UK and US, this is the first disc of Bennet's cabaret performances as a solo artist, performing his own...continue...
Personnel: Richard Rodney Bennett (vocals, piano).

Recording information: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, England....continue...

Lord Berners: Polka, Songs, etc / Dickinson, Irving, et al

1 CD / Symposium / 2001-01-01

Works: Lord Berners: Polka, for piano; Lieder Album ("Three Songs in the German Manner"), for voice & piano; Fragments psychologiques, for piano; Dialogue between Tom Filuter and his Man by Ned the Dog Stea...
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Berners, Lord [Composer/Writer]; Bradshaw, Susan; Dickerson, Bernard; Dickinson, Meriel; Dickinson, Peter
Conductors: Adkins, H.E.; Erving, Ernest
Ensemble: ; Kneller Hall Musicians

Bazelon: Cross-Currents, Fairy Tale, etc / Farberman, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 1998-04-01

Works: Irwin Bazelon: Fairy Tale for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, percussion & piano; Re-Percussions for piano; Cross-Currents for brass quintet, percussion & piano; Vignette for harpsicho...
Performers: Balm, Neil; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Buskirk, John van; Dunkel, Paul Lustig; Dunn, Scott; Estrin, Mitchell; Goldberg, Marc; Haas, Jonathan; Lang, Jeffrey; Lawson, Dorothy; Martin, Lois; Ma...
Conductors: Farberman, Harold
Ensemble: ; Ensemble

Mystery Classics

1 CD / Delos / 1996-01-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Tone-Pictures (3), arranged for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, doubl...
Performers: Bae, Ik-Hwan; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Britton, David; Doppmann, William; Frank, Pamela; Kavafian, Ani; Lash, Warren; Li, Honggang; Li, Wei-Gang; Neubauer, Paul; Noehren, Robert; Rockmore,...
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; ; de Carvalho, Eleazar
Ensemble: ; Sequoia String Quartet; Shanghai Quartet

Classical Princess - Music for Dress-Up

1 CD / Delos / 1996-01-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; The Snow Maiden, incidental music, Op. 12; Edvard Grieg: From Holberg's Time, Op. 40; Alan Menken: Beauty and the...
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Cardenes, Andres; Golabek, Mona; McDonald, Susann [Harp]; Solow, Jeffrey
Conductors: Litton, Andrew; Schwarz, Gerard; Fraser, Donald; Macal, Zdenek
Ensemble: Dallas Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments, etc / Rattle

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-06-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Pieces (3) for string quartet; Poems of Balmont (2), for voice & piano; The Jackdaw, for voice & piano (Petites Chansons no 3); Mavra; Chanson russe f...
Performers: Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Lumsden, Ronald; McMahon, Richard; Shasby, Anne
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: Chilingirian Quartet; Nash Ensemble

Engineer's Choice

1 CD / Delos / 1991-01-01

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 in F minor, Op. 10; David Schiff: Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool, for clarinet, violin, cello & piano; Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass, for orchestra, No...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baldwin, Dalton; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Browning, John [Piano]; Cardenes, Andres; Crozier, Catharine; Golabek, Mona; Gordon, David [Tenor Vocal]; Neriki, Shigeo; Rosenberg...
Conductors: DePreist, James; Schwarz, Gerard; Wagner, Roger
Ensemble: ; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra