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Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5

Modern Dramatic Romantic Nostalgic Playful
$21.99

Details

Composer
Richard Rodney Bennett
Artist
Jonathan Aasgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Format
SACD
Label
Chandos
Released
May 02, 2025
Catalog #
CHSA 5266
UPC
0095115526620

About

John Wilson conducts a series of orchestral works of his mentor and friend Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, which now reaches Volume 5, featuring three works composed between 1973 and 1989. Son of professional musicians, Bennett demonstrated musical talent from an early age and went on to study with Howard Ferguson, Lennox Berkeley, and later Pierre Boulez. He produced more than 200 works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television. He was also a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years. Immersed in the techniques of the European avant-garde via his contact with Boulez, he subsequently developed his own dramatic-abstract style. In later years, he adopted an increasingly tonal idiom. The Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned at the instigation of Brian Priestman, the British chief conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra. It's three-movement structure, closing with a dazzling set of variations, displays the modern orchestra as a virtuoso body of players. His rarely performed cello concerto Sonnets to Orpheus was written for the Edinburgh International Festival, and premiered by Heinrich Schiff. Diversions was a commission from the Haberdashers' Aske's Schools, in north London, to celebrate their tercentenary, in 1990. It was first played by the combined orchestras of all seven schools at a celebration concert in the Royal Festival Hall and the finished work is an exuberantly colourful set of symphonic variations based on the Scottish folksong 'Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad'.

Tracklist 27 tracks

  1. 1 I. Aubade: Vivo 06:59
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Aubade: Vivo
    Duration
    06:59
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  2. 2 II. Adagio 07:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    07:57
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  3. 3 III. Variations: Tema: Presto - 00:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Variations: Tema: Presto -
    Duration
    00:25
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  4. 4 III. Variations: Variation 1: Leggero - 00:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 1: Leggero -
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  5. 5 III. Variations: Variation 2: Molto agitato - 00:34
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 2: Molto agitato -
    Duration
    00:34
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  6. 6 III. Variations: Variation 3: Misterioso - 00:24
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 3: Misterioso -
    Duration
    00:24
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  7. 7 III. Variations: Variation 4: Strepitoso - 00:24
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 4: Strepitoso -
    Duration
    00:24
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  8. 8 III. Variations: Variation 5: Quasi campane - 00:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 5: Quasi campane -
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  9. 9 III. Variations: Variation 6: Appassionato - 00:47
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 6: Appassionato -
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  10. 10 III. Variations: Variation 7: Scherzando - 00:22
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 7: Scherzando -
    Duration
    00:22
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  11. 11 III. Variations: Variation 8: Brillante - 00:21
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Variations: Variation 8: Brillante -
    Duration
    00:21
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  12. 12 III. Variations: Finale: Molto ritmico - Maestoso 00:37
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Variations: Finale: Molto ritmico - Maestoso
    Duration
    00:37
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  13. 13 I. A tree sprang up, O sheer transcendence! O Orpheus sings!…: Allegro 08:00
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. A tree sprang up, O sheer transcendence! O Orpheus sings!…: Allegro
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Performer
    Jonathan Aasgaard
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  14. 14 II. And with tiny steps the clocks walk beside our primal day: Capriccioso 04:14
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. And with tiny steps the clocks walk beside our primal day: Capriccioso
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Performer
    Jonathan Aasgaard
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  15. 15 III. Erect no memorial stone. Let the rose bloom every year to remind us of him: Arioso 06:01
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Erect no memorial stone. Let the rose bloom every year to remind us of him: Arioso
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Performer
    Jonathan Aasgaard
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  16. 16 IV. Only the Song above the land blesses and celebrates: Molto animato 08:57
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Only the Song above the land blesses and celebrates: Molto animato
    Duration
    08:57
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Performer
    Jonathan Aasgaard
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  17. 17 V. But the echo of your music lingered in the rocks and lions, trees and birds. You still sing there: Adagio 04:38
    Track
    17
    Title
    V. But the echo of your music lingered in the rocks and lions, trees and birds. You still sing there: Adagio
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Performer
    Jonathan Aasgaard
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  18. 18 Theme (Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad): Vivo - 01:14
    Track
    18
    Title
    Theme (Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad): Vivo -
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  19. 19 Variation 1: Grazioso - 01:31
    Track
    19
    Title
    Variation 1: Grazioso -
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  20. 20 Variation 2: Scherzando - 00:46
    Track
    20
    Title
    Variation 2: Scherzando -
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  21. 21 Interlude 1 (In yon garden): Allegretto - 01:30
    Track
    21
    Title
    Interlude 1 (In yon garden): Allegretto -
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  22. 22 Variation 3: Poco lento - 02:11
    Track
    22
    Title
    Variation 3: Poco lento -
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  23. 23 Variation 4: Con fuoco - 01:21
    Track
    23
    Title
    Variation 4: Con fuoco -
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  24. 24 Variation 5: Tranquillo - 02:24
    Track
    24
    Title
    Variation 5: Tranquillo -
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  25. 25 Variation 6: Con brio - 01:40
    Track
    25
    Title
    Variation 6: Con brio -
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  26. 26 Interlude 2 (My love's in Germanie): Lento - 02:39
    Track
    26
    Title
    Interlude 2 (My love's in Germanie): Lento -
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson
  27. 27 Finale: Molto allegro 02:41
    Track
    27
    Title
    Finale: Molto allegro
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Ensemble
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Wilson