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David Bedford

About the artist

David Bedford was born in London in 1937 of a musical family, (his grandmother was the composer Liza Lehmann, and his mother, Lesley Duff, was a member of the English Opera Group just after the war and took part in several Britten premières). He began composing at the age of seven and after attending Lancing College, where he studied with John Alston and Christopher Headington, went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley. A grant awarded by the RAM in 1961 enabled him to study with Luigi Nono in Venice.

Top songs

  1. King Aeolus
  2. The Phaeacian Games
  3. Penelope's Shroud (I)
  4. The Sirens
  5. It's Easier Than It Looks
  6. Sad and Lonely Faces
  7. Nurses Song With Elephants
  8. Penelope's Shroud (II)
  9. Wagner's Ring in One Minute
  10. Penelope's Shroud (III)
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  1. Scylla and Charybdis
  2. An Extract From 'Star's End'
  3. Star's End (Part One)
  4. Circe's Island
  5. Theme
  6. Penelope's Shroud (IV)
  7. The Battle in the Hall
  8. Penelope's Shroud Completed
  9. Trona
  10. Star's End (Part Two)
  11. Some Bright Stars for Queen's College
  12. Variation 6: Instructions For Angels
  13. The Rio Grande
  14. Two poems for chorus on words of Kenneth Patchen: O how the drenched land wakes
  15. 2 Poems: No. 1, O Now the Drenched Land Wakes
  16. The Rio Grande - From 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'
  17. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Part One)
  18. Some Bright Stars for Queens College
  19. The Orchestral Tubular Bells, Pt. 1
  20. 2 Poems: No. 2, The Great Birds
  21. Overture: Scene 1: The Forest/Anders And The Red One/Anders' Capture
  22. Two poems for chorus on words of Kenneth Patchen: The great birds
  23. Variation 5: First Came The Lion Rider
  24. An Extract from Stars End
  25. The Rio Grande (From 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner')
  26. The Orchestral Tubular Bells, Pt. 2
  27. The Phaecian Games
  28. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Part One
  29. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Part Two)
  30. Scene 3: Kapper And Lee In The Forest/The Death Of The Orange One/The Funeral Procession
  31. Part 1
  32. Scene 2: The City/Anders And The Red One
  33. Variation 1: Wanderers Of The Pale Wood (Part 1)/Variation 2: Wanderers Of The Pale Wood (Part 2)
  34. The Song of the White Horse
  35. Variation 3: The Dazzling Burden/Variation 4: Be Music, Night
  36. Variations on a Rhythm of Mike Oldfield
  37. Its Easier Than It Looks
  38. Part 2
  39. Day of the Percherons (demo)
  40. Scene 4: Anders Alone In The City/The Ritual Song/Anders' Flight Through The Forest / At The Ship: Countdown/Lift Off / Finale
  41. Instructions for Angels
  42. O now the drenched land wakes
  43. The great birds
  44. Finale: The Valley-Sleeper, The Children, The Snakes And The Giant/Alleluia Timpanis
  45. Great Equatorial (Part 1)
  46. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Part Two
  47. Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
  48. Star Clusters
  49. Great Equatorial (Part 2)
  50. Great Equatorial (Part 3)
  51. Wagner`s Ring In One Minute
  52. Alleluia Timpanis
  53. Variation 1: Wanderers Of The Pale Wood (Part 1) / Variation 2: Wanderers Of The Pale Wood (Part 2)
  54. Preparation - Live At Royal Albert Hall
  55. Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places in Devon
  56. Great Equatorial (Part 5)
  57. Great Equatorial (Part 4)
  58. Even Now
  59. Bash Peace
  60. Variation 3: The Dazzling Burden / Variation 4: Be Music, Night
  61. Great Equatorial (Part 6)
  62. First Excursion
  63. Side 1
  64. Rhayader - Live At Royal Albert Hall
  65. The Rio Grande (From "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
  66. Penelope's Shroud I
  67. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
  68. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1
  69. Recorder Concerto: I. —
  70. The Great Marsh - Live At Royal Albert Hall
  71. Recorder Concerto: II. —
  72. Twelve Hours of Sunset
  73. Fritha - Live At Royal Albert Hall
  74. Variation 6: "Instructions for Angels"
  75. An Extract From Star's End
  76. Recorder Concerto: V. —
  77. Symphony No. 1: II. Adagio
  78. Penelope's Shroud II
  79. Penelope's Shroud III
  80. Great Equatorial (Part III)
  81. Recorder Concerto: III. —
  82. Symphony No. 1: Introduction - I. Allegro
  83. Wisdom Of The World
  84. Fridiof Kennings
  85. Penelope's Shroud IV
  86. Finale: The Valley-Sleeper, The Children, The Snakes And The Giant / Alleluia Timpanis
  87. Symphony No. 1: III. Presto
  88. Sunset over Stac Pollaidh
  89. Friendship - Live At Royal Albert Hall
  90. Side 2

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