Richard Rodney Bennett

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 for many years and bring a welcome fresh approach to the festive idiom: along with the well-loved Away In A Manger and I Wonder As I Wander Bennett gives us his interpretation of two Spirituals - A Child of God and Rise Up Shepherd and Follow.For unison high voices with Piano accompaniment.Score and parts of an orchestral string accompaniment by the composer are available on hire from the publisher (Novello &Company).

5 Carols Nr. 4-This wonderful title includes five fantastic Christmas carols to add to your choirs festive repertoire. Includes There is No Rose Out of Your Sleep That Younge Child Sweet was the Song Susanni. Arranged for SATB includes Piano accompaniment for rehearsal.As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians Bennett produced over two hundred works for the concert hall and fifty scores for film and television as well as having been a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years.Studies with Boulez in the 1950s immersed him in the techniques of the European avant-garde though he subsequently developed his owndistinctive dramato-abstract style. In recent years he adopted an increasingly tonal idiom. He was knighted for Services to Music in 1998.

Five carols by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett for mixed choir or SATB soloists in English.

For solo voice or unison voices (SA) and Piano. *This edition is not compatible with the ensemble version.

For four male voices unaccompanied. Piano part is included on the score for rehearsal purposes only.

This is a beautiful setting of Lullay Mine Liking by Richard Rodney Bennett. It is arranged here for SATB choir a cappella and includes a Keyboard reduction for rehearsal purposes.

Commissioned by and dedicated to the King's Singers in celebration of their twenty-fifth anniversary Sermons and Devotions is a setting of texts by John Donne (1572-1631).

Richard Rodney Bennett's Sea Change for SATB voices was commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival and was first performed by the Donald Hunt Singers conducted by Donald Hunt in Worcester Cathedral in August 1984.This work is for a minimum of 24 voices.Duration: 15 minutes.

Dream-Songs is a short cycle of settings of Walter De La Mere suitable for solo voice but ideal also for children's voices to sing in unison. Bennett's atmospheric music provides an imaginative foil to de la Mare's wonderful poems and a stimulating work for classroom study or concert performance.

Commissioned by the Swaledale Festival for a performance by the Royal Holloway Choir and Acoustic Triangle in Richmond North Yorkshire on 26th May 2012.Sir Thomas Brown (1605-1608) always used this his own poem as a 'dormitive' to lull himself to sleep. The composer is grateful to his sister Meg Peacocke for her help in editing the poem.

Commissioned by Jerry Johnson and VocalEssence in memory of JoAnn Catherine Johnson First perfomed on 7th December 2008 at the VocalEssence ‘Welcome Christmas’ concert. For SATB unaccompanied chorus.Includes a Piano part in the score for rehearsal purposes.