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Richard Rodney Bennett
12+ albums
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was a British composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works. He was based in New York City from 1979. 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 own distinctive dramato-abstract style. In later years he adopted an increasingly tonal idiom. Despite his early studies in modernist techniques, Bennett's tastes were catholic, and he wrote in a wide range of styles, being particularly fond of jazz. Early on, he found success by writing music for feature films, although he considered this to be subordinate to his concert music. Nevertheless, he continued to write music for films and television; among his best-known scores are the Doctor Who story The Aztecs (1964), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Enchanted April (1992) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He was also a prolific composer of orchestral works, piano solos, choral works and operas. Despite this eclecticism, Bennett's music rarely involves crossover
top songs
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Love Scene - From "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
8062Murder On The Orient Express - Waltz
7443Puer nobis
7374Anya
4835Murder on the Orient Express - Overture
4816A Good-Night
4617Prelude (From "Far from the Madding Crowd")
3678Theme and Waltz (Murder on the Orient Express)
3499The Orient Express
26310Overture and Kidnapping
244albums
Bennett: Piano Concerto, Five Studies for Piano, Capriccio for Piano Duet, Commedia IV
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The Return of the Soldier (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Love Story: Piano Themes From Cinema's Golden Age
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Movie Memories- Music From the Greatest Films
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Sea Change - The Choral Music Of Richard Rodney Bennett
Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack
Murder on the Orient Express
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express . Lady Caroline Lamb [original soundtrack recordings]
Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Greatest Film Classics
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Gustav Holst: The Planets
Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4