My Dancing Day: Choral Music by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

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The part-writing is endlessly resourceful and inventive, without ever drawing attention to its own cleverness, and the word-setting is pointed; the late Bennett's ear for a melody had in no way... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jul 2012
Catalogue No: SIGCD293
Label: Signum
Length: 64 minutes

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Bennett, R R: My dancing day

Work length5:32

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Bennett, R R: Gloria, gloria

Work length3:28

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Bennett, R R: In the bleak midwinter

Work length3:40

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Bennett, R R: New Year Carol

Work length2:38

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Bennett, R R: Town and Country

Work length7:02

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BBC Singers, Edward Goater
Paul Brough

i. The Sun has long been set

Track length1:54

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ii. Town and Country

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Bennett, R R: Serenades

Work length13:45

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Mistress Margaret

Track length2:18

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Mistress Margery

Track length1:54

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Mistress Anne

Track length2:04

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My Darling Dear

Track length5:02

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Mistress Isabel

Track length2:27

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Bennett, R R: The Apple Tree

Work length3:03

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Bennett, R R: Four poems of Thomas Campion

Work length12:38

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Winter Nights

Track length2:44

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Never Weather-beaten Saile

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Fire, fire!

Track length2:30

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The Hours of Sleepy Night

Track length3:32

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Bennett, R R: A Good-night

Work length2:49

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Richard Rodney Bennett, George Gershwin: By Strauss

Work length2:51

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BBC Singers
Paul Brough

Richard Rodney Bennett, Duke Ellington: Sophisticated lady

Work length3:50

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BBC Singers, Edward Goater
Paul Brough

Richard Rodney Bennett, Cole Porter: Every time we say goodbye

Work length3:11

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BBC Singers, Edward Goater, Olivia Robinson
Paul Brough

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As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett has produced over 200 works for the concert hall, and 50 scores for film and television, as well as having been a writer and performer of jazz songs for over fifty years.

This disc of compositions and arrangements performed by the BBC Singers showcases some of his most popular and beguiling works for choir and voice, drawn from classical and jazz music and featuring his ever-popular work 'A Good Night'.

This new release on Signum with the BBC Singers follows two other composer-led discs: Remoter Worlds, featuring the music of Judith Bingham, and Choral Images, featuring the music of Sir Michael Tippett.

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March 2013

The part-writing is endlessly resourceful and inventive, without ever drawing attention to its own cleverness, and the word-setting is pointed; the late Bennett's ear for a melody had in no way deserted him in his eighth decade...[The BBC Singers'] standards of execution, under Paul Brough's empathetic direction, grace the entire programme.

January 2013

Bennett is a composer who writes splendidly for a cappella choir. He is discerning in his choice of texts. The music itself is sophisticated, accessible and seems beautifully conceived for voices..The singing on this disc is technically superb. The BBC Singers give virtuoso performances...Except ... To my ears this ensemble has a vibrato-heavy sound which has been a feature of their singing for years.

23rd August 2012

Each shows the same craftsmanship and harmonic instincts; there's not a note out of place or a phrase that seems second-hand.

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