Richard Rodney Bennett

Edited by Veronica Jacobs. Commissioned for the 1997 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.

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).

Six Country Dances is an anthology of tunes from Playford’s ‘The English Dancing Master’ selected and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett. Playford’s collection was first published in 1651 and contained 535 popular tunes for country dancing. Richard Rodney Bennett’s skilful and inspired arrangements are perfect for intermediate standard players adding as they do a contemporary slant to these classics of the English folk repertoire. This edition is for Viola and Piano.

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.

Suite For Skip And Sadie was inspired by the antics of the composer's cats who lived with him in his New York apartment. These four attractive and accessible pieces are for piano duettists of equal abilitiy Grade VI and above. Duration 8 minutes

Three Piece Suite for alto saxophone and piano is a transcription made by the composer in 1996 of three movements from his Four Piece Suite for two pianos of 1974. First performed on 21 March 1996 by John Harle. Duration c. 10 minutes. Includes Score and Part. For ABRSM examinations.

Composed in 1985 for Clarinet and Piano. The piece was commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival with additional funds from South West Arts and the Royal Over-Seas League. It was first performed on 17th July 1986 by Nicholas Cox and Vanessa Latarche as part of the festival at the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham.

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

Six Country Dances is an anthology of tunes from Playford’s ‘The English Dancing Master’ selected and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett. Playford’s collection was first published in 1651 and contained 535 popular tunes for country dancing. Richard Rodney Bennett’s skilful and inspired arrangements are perfect for intermediate standard players adding as they do a contemporary slant to these classics of the English folk repertoire. This edition is for Violin and Piano.