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RR Bennett: The Film Music of Richard Rodney Bennett

Running Time: 69:22

CD UPC: 0095115986721

Release Date: November 2000
Originally recorded in July 2000

Composer (b. 1936)
Richard Rodney Bennett

Solo viola*
Philip Dukes

Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor
Rumon Gamba

Venue
New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Producer (Executive)
Mike George

Producer (Recording)
Ralph Couzens

Engineer
Stephen Rinker

Engineer (Assistant)
Steve Hargreaves

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos
Film & TV Music

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The Film Music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT

(b. 1936)

1.

Murder on the Orient Express

11:18

2.

Far from the Madding Crowd

15:28

Lady Caroline Lamb*

17:43

Elegy for Viola and Orchestra

3.

I

Molto vivo - Lento - Alla marcia - Lento

8:03

4.

II

Maestoso - Andante con moto - Poco agitato - Alla breve

9:39

premiere recording

5.

Nicole's Theme from 'Tender is the Night'

2:04

6.

Enchanted April

19:20

Cynthia Miller ondes martenot

7.

Love Scene from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'

3:30

69:45

Solo: Philip Dukes viola*

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Rumon Gamba

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Reviews

"... These suites capture the essence of the composer's work and concentrate them into a heady elixor of themes and melodies. As an introduction to the composer's work this release is brilliant and to the ardent collector these suites are an ideal way of re-visiting old favourites."

AK - Music for the Movies - Winter 2001

"... excellent music-making ... sumptuous sonics ..."

Koldys - American Record Guide - May/June 2001

"...Another fine Chandos disc."

Peter Spaull - Liverpool Daily Post - 15 December 2000

“This addition to Chandos’s film-music series gives an excellent account of Sir Richard’s tunefulness, versatility, stylishness and English pastoralism. It shows what a marvellous light-music composer and pasticheur he is. The 15-minute chunk of his Far From the Madding Crowd music gets the yearning folkish idiom to a T… the highlight is inevitably the Murder on the Orient Express music, with its surging waltz tune, here put in context in an atmospheric 11-minute paraphrase of the score.”

Paul Driver – The Sunday Times – 31 December 2000

“The Chandos Movies series progresses in style with a selection of Bennett’s music for film and TV, excellently performed by Gamba and the BBC Phil.”

Adrian Edwards – Gramophone magazine – March 2001

"...The BBC Philharmonic and the talented Rumon Gamba, together with the engineering, bring a suitable high-gloss finish to this collection of scores from a third of a century of Bennett's film music."

BBC Music magazine - March 2001

"The scores presented here (from Murder on the Orient Express to Four Weddings and a Funeral) show Bennett in all his romantic, tuneful glory ... expertly played by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by rising star baton-wielder Rumon Gamba."

Warwick Thompson - Classic Fm magazine - March 2001

"If the true art of composing for the cinema is to be seen and heard, then Richard Rodney Bennett is a master of the medium..."

Christopher Cook - International Record Review - February 2001

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