Select Genre

Classical Music
Jazz and Blues
AudioBooks

   Essentials

   Highlights

   Search Options

   Subscribe to our
   Newsletter


Your feedback, please.
Please feel free to send your comments or suggestions to our Customer Service.
COL Gift Certificates Get Download Manager Now Find Us in Facebook Follow Us on Twitter NaxosRip.com
 

Classiscsonline Home » Composers » B » Bennett, William Sterndale



 Update me on new releases by Bennett

William Sterndale Bennett (4/13/1816 - 2/01/1875)

With musical gifts much admired by his friend Robert Schumann, Bennett (who never used the name Sterndale) briefly enjoyed popularity as a composer, although his obvious abilities were later submerged in the demands of public life – as professor of music at the University of Cambridge and later as principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He was knighted in 1871. Interest in his music is now growing, with the occasional revival in particular of his piano music and five piano concertos. His songs remain an important example of the genre in mid-19th-century England.

Orchestral Music

The Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4 are a good introduction to Sterndale Bennett’s music, No. 3 with a romantic slow movement and No. 4 with a Barcarole (Gondolier’s Song) slow movement, inserted at the suggestion of Mendelssohn.

Piano and Chamber Music

Sterndale Bennett won a reputation for himself as a pianist and wrote music that fully explored the possibilities of the instrument: e.g. his Sextet, Chamber Trio, and a number of interesting, if now neglected, piano pieces that match the work of Schumann or Chopin.





Discography

Roussel: The Spider's Banquet – 20% off select titles

 

Affiliates  |  Classical Points  |  Press Room  |  About Us  |  Contact Us  |  Terms of Use  |  Privacy Policy

Bach   •   Beethoven   •   Handel   •   Mozart   •   Tchaikovsky   •   Vivaldi

ClassicsOnline Newsletter Archive

Monthly Features on ClassicsOnline

ClassicsOnline is your number one source for the newest classical music releases, standards, rarities and bargains from the most popular independent labels, with the largest online classical music catalogue of over 700,000 tracks and more than 40,000 classical music albums available in CD, MP3 (320kbps) and FLAC (lossless format). Recently honored with the 2010 Best Classical Download Site by the MIDEM Classical Awards Jury, ClassicsOnline proves to have a devoted following of classical music enthusiasts and audiophiles worldwide.

ClassicsOnline offers an enormous range of specialist repertoire not available from other classical music online stores. More than 500 new classical music albums are added every month, all at competitive prices. Other notable offerings include: Free preview streaming of every album/track, special advanced search facility enables you to find your favorite classical music composers/artists/works/albums, and DRM-free tracks allows you to ‘burn’ tracks to an unlimited number of CDs or transfer them to an mp3 player or iPod for personal use. Membership is free, and registration includes 5 free tracks for download. Get more free tracks every week and gain access to exclusive classical deals when you subscribe to our newsletter. Enter your email on the left side-bar under newsletter subscription to start getting your weekly free track.
Some titles may not be available in all countries because of possible copyright or licensing restrictions.

Copyright © 2012 Naxos Digital Services Ltd. All rights reserved.
Classicsonline.com – Your Classical Music Download Source
11:38:45 AM Sunday, February 12, 2012  -125-