The album's cover features an untitled collage created by the composer, Richard Rodney Bennett.
Recording & Production
The album was recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, across three dates in 2009 and 2010.
Composer's Artistic Vision
After the late 1980s, Bennett abandoned his serial orthodoxy for a freely tonal idiom, often incorporating a 'crossover' element, encouraged by the success of his film music and cabaret performances.
Composer Biography
Richard Rodney Bennett pursued parallel careers as a film composer, concert pianist, and jazz performer, including as a solo cabaret artist.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bennett's solo songs often perpetuate his childhood world, favoring proverbial rhymes and satirical games over deep romantic introspection, and generic musical forms over radical innovation.
Compositional Technique
In his songwriting, Bennett prefers to sustain or cross-cut appropriate textures throughout each setting rather than continually using detailed 'word-painting'.
Composer Biography
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, the composer, was born into a family of classical musicians and began composing as a child.
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