IDAGIO | Bennett: Piano Concerto - Five Studies for Piano -Capriccio for Piano Duet

Featuring

Sir Alexander Gibson
Stephen Kovacevich
Richard Rodney Bennett
Thea Musgrave
Philip Jones
Elgar Howarth

Ifor James
John Iveson
John Fletcher
London Symphony Orchestra
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

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Composer Biography

Richard Rodney Bennett studied informally with pioneering British serial composer Elisabeth Lutyens and later had intensive tuition from Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen in Paris.

Compositional Technique

The Five Studies for solo piano by Richard Rodney Bennett are extremely taxing works designed to be of artistic worth, exploring rhythmic flexibility and featuring studies for the right hand alone and left hand alone.

Composer Biography

Richard Rodney Bennett, the composer on this album, began composing as a child and his mother, a student of Gustav Holst, taught him piano from age five.

Composer Biography

While a student at the Royal Academy of Music, Richard Rodney Bennett met film conductor John Hollingsworth, who gave him his first opportunities to write film soundtracks.

Composer Biography

Richard Rodney Bennett, the composer, was also a successful jazz pianist and formed a 2-piano duo with his Royal Academy of Music classmate Susan Bradshaw, performing together for over 20 years.

Composition History

Commedia IV, a work for brass quintet by Richard Rodney Bennett, was commissioned by the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.