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Stephen Oliver
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Oliver was born in Chester, the son of Charlotte Hester (Girdlestone), a religious education adviser, and Osborne George Oliver, an electricity board official.[1] His maternal great-grandfather was William Boyd Carpenter, a Bishop of Ripon and a court chaplain to Queen Victoria.[1] Oliver was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, Ardingly College and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read music under Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson. His first opera, The Duchess of Malfi (1971), was staged while he was still at Oxford. Later works include incidental music for the Royal Shakespeare Company (including The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby), a musical, Blondel (1983; with Tim Rice), and over forty operas, including Tom Jones (1975), Beauty and the Beast (1984) and Timon of Athens (1991). Oliver also wrote music for television, including several of the BBC's Shakespeare productions (Timon among those), the soundtrack to the 1986 film Lady Jane, and some chamber and instrumental music. He was a good friend of Simon Callow who commissioned the piece Ricercare No. 4 for vocal quartet Cantabile. He also composed the score for the thirteen-hour radio dramatization of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981. The work combined a main theme with many sub-themes, all composed within the English pastoral tradition. In Tony Palmer's film Wagner (1982–83), Oliver can be seen playing the part of conductor Hans Richter and conducting
top songs
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White Sand
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music From The BBC Radio Dramatisation Of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings
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The Lord of the Rings
Lady Jane
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Sunday Morning Classical
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The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
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The Lord of the Rings (disc 14: Soundtrack)
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The Return of the King
Lord of the Rings (BBC Radio Series)
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Music From The BBC Radio Adaptation Of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings
The Lord Of the Rings - BBC Records