Richard Rodney Bennett

About the artist

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.

Top songs

  1. Love Scene - From "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
  2. Murder On The Orient Express - Waltz
  3. Puer nobis
  4. Anya
  5. Murder on the Orient Express - Overture
  6. A Good-Night
  7. Prelude (From "Far from the Madding Crowd")
  8. Theme and Waltz (Murder on the Orient Express)
  9. The Orient Express
  10. Overture and Kidnapping
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  1. Waltz (From "Murder On The Orient Express")
  2. Entr'acte
  3. Stamboul Ferry
  4. Four Weddings and a Funeral : Main Theme
  5. Clarinet Sonatina: II. Night Thoughts. Lento
  6. Out of your sleep
  7. Bennett: Songs Before Sleep: No. 1, The Mouse and the Bumblebee
  8. The Knife
  9. Rodney Bennett: Music for the Sydney Lumet's 1974 Movies "Murder on the Orient Express": No. 1, Overture
  10. Billion Dollar Brain (Main Theme)
  11. Princess Dragomiroff
  12. The Murder
  13. Finale
  14. a good night
  15. Four Weddings & A Funeral - Main Theme - From "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
  16. Prelude To Murder
  17. Balulalow (a cappella): Balulalow (a cappella)
  18. Symphony No. 2: Id. Non troppo allegro
  19. I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)
  20. The Body / Remembering Daisy
  21. Rodney Bennett: Lady Caroline Lamb: The Banquet
  22. 4 Weddings and a Funeral: Love Scene
  23. These Three
  24. Four Weddings and a Funeral: Love Scene
  25. I Never Went Away
  26. Five Studies for Piano: V. Appassionato
  27. Five Carols: Susanni
  28. Canzone, Op. 38a
  29. Skidoo
  30. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
  31. Far From The Madding Crowd
  32. The Witches
  33. Four Weddings and a Funeral: Four Weddings & A Funeral - Main Theme
  34. The Church
  35. Murder On The Orient Express: Theme And Waltz (Murder On The Orient Express)
  36. Love Scene
  37. The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, The Bringer Of War
  38. Five Studies for Piano: I. Flessibile
  39. lullay mine liking
  40. 5 Carols: No. 2: Out of your sleep
  41. The Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune, The Mystic
  42. World Weary
  43. The Birds Lament
  44. Kaarna
  45. Ambush
  46. I. Recitativo
  47. Eustace And Hilda
  48. Murder on the Orient Express: Waltz
  49. Five Studies for Piano: II. Presto, mano destra
  50. Hoe Down
  51. The seasons of his mercies
  52. Panic In The Brain
  53. Concerto for Stan Getz: 1. Con fuoco
  54. Theme and Wlatz (Murder on the Orient Express, 1974)
  55. What sweeter music
  56. Celebration
  57. Russian Cavalry
  58. Country Dances, Book 1: No. 4, Chelsea Reach
  59. The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
  60. In the Bleak Mid-Winter
  61. I Was A Little Too Lonely
  62. The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, The Bringer Of Peace
  63. Car Chase
  64. The Orient Express - From "Murder On The Orient Express" Soundtrack
  65. Theme and Waltz from 'Murder on the Orient Express'
  66. Little Suite: The Bird's Lament
  67. Overture And Kidnapping - From "Murder On The Orient Express" Soundtrack
  68. Barcarolle
  69. 5 Carols: No. 2, Out of Your Sleep
  70. Suite From Enchanted April (From the Original Film Score for "Enchanted April")
  71. Murder On The Orient Express
  72. Suite for Skip and Sadie: III. Sadie's Waltz
  73. Midwinter's Army
  74. Little Elegy
  75. My One and Only
  76. The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, The Winged Messenger
  77. Sea Change: Full fathom five
  78. Sea Change: The isle is full of noises
  79. Five Studies for Piano: III. Agitato
  80. Little Jazz Bird (Lady, Be Good!, 1924)
  81. The Planets, Op. 32: V. Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age
  82. St. Louis Woman, musical play: Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
  83. The Child That is Born on the Sabbath Day (Grade 6, Group C)
  84. Concerto for Stan Getz: II. Elegy. Lento
  85. Song Of Titus
  86. Summer Music: II. Siesta. Lento E Dolce
  87. The Red Room
  88. The Planets, Op. 32: VI. Uranus, The Magician
  89. Stamboul Ferry - From "Murder On The Orient Express" Soundtrack
  90. Rosemary's Waltz (From "Tender Is the Night") [Arr. for Saxophone & Piano]

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