Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
May 2, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Richard Rodney Bennett
    • PERFORMER
      Jonathan Aasgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 02, 2025
    • UPC
      0095115526620
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5266
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Aubade: Vivo

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    3. III. Variations: Tema: Presto -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    4. III. Variations: Variation 1: Leggero -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    5. III. Variations: Variation 2: Molto agitato -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    6. III. Variations: Variation 3: Misterioso -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    7. III. Variations: Variation 4: Strepitoso -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    8. III. Variations: Variation 5: Quasi campane -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    9. III. Variations: Variation 6: Appassionato -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    10. III. Variations: Variation 7: Scherzando -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    11. III. Variations: Variation 8: Brillante -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    12. III. Variations: Finale: Molto ritmico - Maestoso

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    13. I. A tree sprang up, O sheer transcendence! O Orpheus sings!…: Allegro

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard

      Conductor: John Wilson

    14. II. And with tiny steps the clocks walk beside our primal day: Capriccioso

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard

      Conductor: John Wilson

    15. III. Erect no memorial stone. Let the rose bloom every year to remind us of him: Arioso

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard

      Conductor: John Wilson

    16. IV. Only the Song above the land blesses and celebrates: Molto animato

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard

      Conductor: John Wilson

    17. V. But the echo of your music lingered in the rocks and lions, trees and birds. You still sing there: Adagio

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard

      Conductor: John Wilson

    18. Theme (Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad): Vivo -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    19. Variation 1: Grazioso -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    20. Variation 2: Scherzando -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    21. Interlude 1 (In yon garden): Allegretto -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    22. Variation 3: Poco lento -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    23. Variation 4: Con fuoco -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    24. Variation 5: Tranquillo -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    25. Variation 6: Con brio -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    26. Interlude 2 (My love's in Germanie): Lento -

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson

    27. Finale: Molto allegro

      Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

      Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Wilson


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'.