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Richard Rodney Bennett
p, 1936-2012 GB
Musician / Composer of Classical and Soundtrack
A.k.a. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.
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Murder On The Orient Express - Waltz on Movie Memories- Music From the Greatest Films by Various Artists Four Weddings & A Funeral - Main Theme - From "Four Weddings and a Funeral" on Hollywood In Love - Romantic Movie Memories by Hollywood Bowl Orchestra & John Mauceri The Orient Express on Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack by Richard Rodney Bennett Overture And Kidnapping on Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack by Richard Rodney Bennett Far Away (Reprise) - Instrumental on All the Pretty Horses - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Various Artists Stamboul Ferry on Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack by Richard Rodney Bennett Entr'acte on Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack by Richard Rodney Bennett After the Ball on The Return of the Soldier by Richard Rodney Bennett Finale on Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack by Richard Rodney Bennett The Body / Remembering Daisy on Murder On The Orient Express - Original Soundtrack by Richard Rodney BennettTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Glory and the Dream: Choral Music by Richard Rodney Bennett | Richard Rodney Bennett | 2018 | Compil. |
| Morning Music, Midnight Music | Timothy Reynish, Richard Rodney Bennett And Irwin Bazelon, Royal Northern College Of Music Wind Orchestra, Martin Winter | 2017 | Album |
| Vol. 1: Marimba Concerto; Symphony No. 3; Celebration; Summer Music; Sinfonietta | Richard Rodney Bennett, Colin Currie | 2017 | Album |
| L'imprécateur / Interdit Aux Moins De 13 Ans | Richard Rodney Bennett / Gabriel Yared | 2012 | Compil. |
| My Dancing Day (Choral Music By Richard Rodney Bennett) | Richard Rodney Bennett / BBC Singers / Paul Brough | 2012 | Album |
| The Whisperers / Equus | John Barry, Richard Rodney Bennett | 2010 | Compil. |
| Zodiac | Auréole - William Mathias • Arnold Bax • Jan Bach • Richard Rodney Bennett | 2008 | Album |
| The Pick-Up Artist / Sherlock Holmes In New York | Georges Delerue / Richard Rodney Bennett / Leonard Rosenman | 2006 | Compil. |
| The Mimes Of Sulphur | Richard Rodney Bennett - Glimmerglass Opera, Stewart Robertson | 2005 | Album |
| Sea Change (The Choral Music Of Richard Rodney Bennett) | Richard Rodney Bennett, The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter | 2005 | Album |
| When Lights are low | Claire Martin, Richard Rodney Bennett | 2005 | Album |
| British Composers - The Rio Grande - Concerto For Piano & Nine Players - Elegiac Blues - Elegy - Symphony No. 2 | Constant Lambert, Sir William Walton, André Previn, Richard Rodney Bennett, Neville Dilkes | 2005 | Compil. |
| Love From A Stranger: Four British Film Scores | Benjamin Britten, Roberto Gerhard, Elisabeth Lutyens, Richard Rodney Bennett | 2004 | Album |
| Saison 2002-2003 : Psappha / Syrinx / After Syrinx II / I Ching (Extraits) / Kerberos | Christophe Roldan, Magali Mosnier - Iannis Xenakis / Claude Debussy / Richard Rodney Bennett / Per Nørgård / Sydney Hodkinson | 2003 | Album |
| Way Ahead Of The Game / The Lyrics Of Johnny Mercer | Richard Rodney Bennett . Johnny Mercer | 2003 | Album |
| "Fields" - American Music For Marimba | Joseph Schwantner, Richard Rodney Bennett, Andrew Thomas, Raymond Helble, Evan Hause, Filippo Lattanzi | 2001 | Album |
| Orchestral Jazz | The John Wilson Orchestra Featuring Richard Rodney Bennett | 2000 | Album |
| Gormenghast | Richard Rodney Bennett, John Tavener | 2000 | Album |
| Partita For Orchestra | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1995 | Album |
| Morning Music - Midnight Music | Richard Rodney Bennett, Royal Northern College Of Music Wind Orchestra, Timothy Reynish | 1994 | Album |
| George Gershwin's Solo Piano Works | Richard Rodney Bennett Plays George Gershwin | 1993 | Album |
| Poirot At The Movies - Murder On The Orient Express - Death On The Nile | Richard Rodney Bennett, Nino Rota | 1993 | Compil. |
| Enchanted April (The Film Music Of Richard Rodney Bennett) | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1992 | Compil. |
| Transatlantic Piano | John McCabe Plays John Adams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, George Rochberg, André Previn | 1991 | Album |
| Saxophone Concertos | John Harle, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner - Claude Debussy, Alexander Glazunov, Jacques Ibert, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Richard Rodney Bennett, Dave Heath | 1991 | Album |
| Far From The Madding Crowd: Music From The Original Sound Track | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1991 | Album |
| I Never Went Away ... | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1990 | Album |
| From This Moment On | Maria Ewing, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Rodney Bennett, Neil Richardson | 1990 | Album |
| My Keyboard Friends (Piano Music Of Bennett And Walton) | Richard Rodney Bennett And Carol Rosenberger | 1990 | Album |
| Oboe Sonatas | Camille Saint-Saëns · Francis Poulenc · Henri Dutilleux · Eugène Bozza · Richard Rodney Bennett - Hansjörg Schellenberger, Rolf Koenen | 1989 | Compil. |
| Scenes From West Side Story / Fantasy On George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess / Four Piece Suite | Leonard Bernstein / Percy Grainger / Richard Rodney Bennett - David Nettle & Richard Markham | 1988 | Album |
| Lush Life | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1988 | Album |
| Take Love Easy | Richard Rodney Bennett, Richard Sarpola, Tony Tedesco | 1985 | Album |
| Puttin' On The Ritz | Marian Montgomery And Richard Rodney Bennett | 1984 | Album |
| Plays Little Jazz Bird And Others Standards By... | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1984 | Album |
| The Return Of The Soldier (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1983 | Album |
| Partners In Crime | The South Bank Orchestra, Marian Montgomery, Richard Rodney Bennett | 1983 | Single |
| Harold Arlen's Songs | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1983 | Album |
| A Tapestry Of Songs And Chamber Music | Igor Stravinsky - Sir Simon Rattle, The Nash Ensemble, Chilingirian String Quartet, Jane Manning, Richard Rodney Bennett, Ronald Lumsden, Anne Shasby, Richard McMahon | 1982 | Album |
| "I Got Rhythm" Richard Rodney Bennett Plays The Complete Solo Piano Music Of George Gershwin | Richard Rodney Bennett, George Gershwin | 1981 | Album |
| The Planets | Gustav Holst - Richard Rodney Bennett / Susan Bradshaw | 1981 | Album |
| A Sure Thing - Music Of Jerome Kern | Barry Tuckwell & Richard Rodney Bennett | 1979 | Album |
| A Different Side Of Sondheim | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1979 | Compil. |
| Yanks Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1979 | Album |
| A Sure Thing - Music Of Jerome Kern | Barry Tuckwell & Richard Rodney Bennett | 1979 | Album |
| Spells | Richard Rodney Bennett, Jane Manning, David Willcocks, Philharmonia Orchestra | 1978 | Album |
| A Portrait Of Lord Berners. Songs And Piano Music | Lord Berners, Meriel & Peter Dickinson & Bernard Dickinson, Susan Bradshaw And Richard Rodney Bennett | 1978 | Album |
| Surprise, Surprise | Marian Montgomery And Richard Rodney Bennett | 1978 | Album |
| Plays The Ballet Music Of Cole Porter, Harold Arlen & Richard Rodgers | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1978 | Album |
| Town And Country | Marian Montgomery And Richard Rodney Bennett | 1978 | Album |
| Musik Für 20 Finger / Vierhändige Klaviermusik Des 20. Jahrhunderts | Max Reger, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, Richard Rodney Bennett, Werner Heider / Vivienne Und Dirk Keilhack | 1977 | Album |
| Equus - The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1977 | Album |
| L'Imprécateur (Bande Originale Du Film) | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1977 | Album |
| Concerto For Solo Piano And Nine Players Plus Piano Pieces By Bliss, E Goossens, Lambert, Walton | Richard Rodney Bennett - Constant Lambert / Arthur Bliss / Sir Eugene Goossens / Sir William Walton | 1976 | Album |
| Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Plays Music By Addison • Dodgson • Gardner • Bennett | Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Plays Music By John Addison • Stephen Dodgson • John Gardner • Richard Rodney Bennett | 1975 | Album |
| Nobody Else But Me | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1975 | Compil. |
| Plays George Gershwin & Billy Mayer | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1975 | Album |
| オリエント急行殺人事件 = Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1974 | Album |
| Assassino sull' Orient Express | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1974 | Album |
| Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1974 | Album |
| Overture from 'Murder On The Orient Express' / Prelude To Murder | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1974 | Single |
| Composers At The Piano | Richard Rodney Bennett, Thea Musgrave, Malcolm Williamson | 1972 | Album |
| Lady Caroline Lamb (Original Soundtrack) / Elegy For Caroline Lamb | Richard Rodney Bennett / Marcus Dods Conducts New Philharmonia Orchestra | 1972 | Album |
| All The King's Men | Richard Rodney Bennett, Trinity Boys Choir | 1971 | Album |
| Nicholas And Alexandra (Original Sound Track) | Richard Rodney Bennett - New Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted By Marcus Dods | 1971 | Album |
| Jazz Calendar/Piano Concerto | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1971 | Album |
| Symphony No. 1 / Overture To A Picaresque Comedy / Divertimento | Richard Rodney Bennett / Arnold Bax / Lennox Berkeley - Igor Buketoff, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 1968 | Album |
| Far From The Madding Crowd: Music From The Original Sound Track | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1967 | Album |
| Billion Dollar Brain (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1967 | Album |
| Un Cerveau D'Un Milliard De Dollars | Richard Rodney Bennett | 1967 | Single |
| Instrumental Music | Phyllis Tate, Don Banks, Richard Rodney Bennett, Iain Hamilton, Barry Tuckwell, Gervase de Peyer, Brenton Langbein, Maureen Jones, William Bennett, William Pleeth, Margaret Kitchin, Peter Graeme | 1966 | Album |
| Four British Composers | Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, Richard Rodney Bennett, Malcolm Williamson | 1965 | Album |
| The Midnight Thief | Richard Rodney Bennett, Ian Serraillier | 1964 | Album |
| Twentieth Century English Songs | Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, Joan Dickson / Richard Rodney Bennett, Frank Bridge, John Ireland, Priaulx Rainier | 1964 | Album |
| Murder On The Orient Express / Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Rodney Bennett | Album | |
| A Different Side Of Sondheim | Richard Rodney Bennett | Album | |
| Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Rodney Bennett | Album | |
| Nicholas And Alexandra (Original Sound Track) | Richard Rodney Bennett, Marcus Dods, New Philharmonia Orchestra | Album | |
| Fifteen Songs From The Oxford Nursery Song Book | Richard Rodney Bennett / Dorothy Dorow & John Carol Case | Single |
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