Richard Rodney Bennett: I Saw Three Ships: SATB: Vocal Score

Accessible and beautifully written, this original setting of I Saw Three Ships by Richard Rodney Bennett is for SATB a cappella - a perfect addition for a carol service. / SATB

Noël! 3 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed-voice choirs, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Baroque to the present: familiar settings of traditional and lesser-known carols through the ages to Howells, Berkeley and Warlock, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Paul Mealor, John Tavener, Francis Pott and Richard Allain. Mixed-voice choirs of all levels will enjoy these new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating original works for the Christmas season. / Choeur SATB Et Orgue (Ou Piano)

Composer performer and arranger Richard Rodney Bennett was internationally respected for his serious music and many award-winning film scores (Murder on the Orient Express Nicholas and Alexandra) as well as his works for children and his religious pieces. The playful and sensitive side of Bennett comes to the fore with this delightful setting of five songs of poems by Marjorie Fleming. Marjorie Fleming was a very young Scottish poetess who was born in Kirkcaldy in 1803 and died just eight years later leaving journals and a handful of poems. Her words are artless and evocative her spelling and language inventive. ‘Three Turkeys now their last have breathed And nowthis world forever leaved ’ she writes in A Melancholy Lay.This set of art songs is witty and poignant.

Richard Rodney Bennett's Sea Change for SATB voices was commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival and was first performed by the Donald Hunt Singers conducted by Donald Hunt in Worcester Cathedral in August 1984.This work is for a minimum of 24 voices.Duration: 15 minutes.

Noel! is an exciting collection for mixed voice choirs, selected and edited by David Hill. The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: the polyphony of Victoria and Byrd, via Bach, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Judith Bingham, John Tavener and Judith Weir. Mixed voice choirs of all levels will find here new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating works for the Christmas season, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. / Choeur SATB

Commissioned by the Frank Clarke-Whitfield Trust and the Three Choirs Festival for the choir of Hereford Cathedral and Geraint Bowen and first performed on 22 July 2012 at the Festival Eucharist.

Music of our time!Soundsnew is a collection of works for solo piano from the masters of the 20th and 21st centuries.Selected for the young and with young hands in mind these pieces are also suitable for older students and adults wishing to approach new music via this easier material. The technical levels approximate books II and III of Bartók's Mikro-kosmos. The pieces are presented chronologically according to the birth dates of the composers who include: Béla Bartók; Anton Webern; Jenö Takács; György Kurtág; Friedrich Cerha; Anthony Hedges; Arvo Pärt; Peter Roggenkamp; Richard Rodney Bennett; Ian Wilson; Roxanna Panufnik and Johannes Maria Staud. Works from these lastthree young composers were especially written for this collection along with a piece from the editor himself Peter Roggenkamp. Explanations of markings and notation along with performance tips are included with each piece.This is truly a wonderful resource of piano works from the modern masters.