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Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician (Hardcover)
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Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician (Hardcover)
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his
activities, is arguably the most complete musician of all time. Not
only does he have a remarkable 300 commissioned concert works to
his credit, which have established him among the leading British
twentieth-century composers, yet at the same time, with supreme
success, he has also contrived to lead several completely different
musical lives. For some, he is the ultimate exponent of
'crossover', as epitomised in his remarkable Concerto for Stan Getz
and concert works for Cleo Laine. Others remember him as a concert
pianist with a special enthusiasm for pioneering contemporary
music, his partnerships with Susan Bradshaw, Jane Manning and Barry
Tuckwell being particularly notable. Meanwhile, he also has over 70
film and television scores to his credit, the many classic titles
ranging from "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Far From the
Madding Crowd" to "Equus" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral". For
cabaret and jazz club devotees, he is, again, something completely
different: one of the finest and most knowledgeable of all
exponents of the Great American Songbook, a much-in-demand singer
and accompanist over the past thirty-five years, and, as such, the
stage partner of some of the most glamorous performers in the
business. This, then, is a book about a uniquely gifted musician.
It is also a study of a most engaging personality and a
fascinatingly complex human being.
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