Richard Rodney Bennett

Composed in 2010 by Richard Rodney Bennett to words translated by J.B. Trend (1887-1958) from ‘The Oxford Book Of Carols’.

Puer Nobis is an expressive choral work of a text upon the Nativity wonderfully illuminating Bennett's gift of setting words naturally without ever losing sight of their meaning.

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.

Richard Rodney Bennett's setting of Christina Rossetti's text In the Bleak Mid-Winter. For SATB chorus unaccompanied.

Accessible and beautifully written this original setting of I Saw Three Ships by Richard Rodney Bennett is for SATB a cappella; a perfect addition for a carol service.

The playful side of versatile British composer conductor arranger and performer Richard Rodney Bennett comes to the fore with this delightful setting of seven nonsensical poems by Mervyn Peake. It was said of Peake during his lifetime that his serious work was full of humour while his nonsense verse was full of philosophy. This duality makes his lyrics a superb match for Bennett a composer who it is impossible to categorise. Composer performer and arranger Richard Rodney Bennett was internationally respected for his serious music and many award-winning film scores (Murder on the Orient Express Nicholas and Alexandra) as well as his works for children and his religiouspieces. In addition this markedly versatile musician frequently performed as a jazz pianist and arranger. Nonsense works equally well for students Choruses as well as for adult groups.

POD-Richard Rodney Bennett's Lullaby Baby is dedicated to the Choir of King's College Cambridge. This work for SATB choir unaccompanied is a setting of text by John Phillip.Duration: 3 minutes. 'This delightful setting of a 16th-century text was written for the choir of King’s College Cambridge and requires fine intonation especially in the jazz-influenced harmonies. A good performance of this carol will create a momentary time of peace amid the jollity of Christmas'. 'Sunday by Sunday’ December 2017   Lullaby Baby a 1986 setting of words by the 16th-century John Phillip (alsoset by Britten) is dedicated to King's College Cambridge and needs such a choir to do justice to the richly varied harmonies which set the repeated stanzas and refrain. Organists Review December 2017

Richard Rodney Bennett's setting of Christina Rossetti's text, In the Bleak Mid-Winter . For SATB chorus unaccompanied. / SATB

For Jonathan Manners and DeChorum on the occasion of the Cancer Research UK Carol Service at All Saints Church Weston-super-Mare 22 December 2008.

POD-Richard Rodney Bennett's Nowell Nowell Tidings True sets a 15th century carol that tells of the Angel Gabriel's visit to the Virgin Mary. This work is for SATB choir unaccompanied. Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds.   Richard Rodney Bennett's spiky arrangement of the carol Nowell nowell tidings true dating from 1963 is reissued with its alternation of unaccompanied solo-voice verse and differently realised choral refrains following the medieval pattern. - Organists Review December 2017

The setting of a blissfully pastoral text by Henry King written for SAATB chorus by Richard Rodney Bennett.

Work for SATB Choir A Cappella. Written for Philip Brunelle for the 35th anniversary of Vocalessence. Text: Jone Donne (from Sermon LXXIII).