Richard Hickox United Kingdom

Biography

Richard Hickox CBE (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music. He was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family. After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1959 to 1966, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 to 1967, then was an organ scholar at Queens' College, Cambridge from 1967 to 1970. He founded the City of London Sinfonia in 1971

Popular Songs

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  Ave maris stella

  The Dancers / Harp Song of the Dane Women / Mariners' Song / Ave maris stella / Six Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems

  67 BPM
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  Concerto for String Orchestra: III. Allegro vivo: ritmico e giocoso

  Music for Strings

  148 BPM
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  Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, op. 25: I. Allegro giusto

  Gliere: Harp Concerto / Concerto for Coloratura Soprano / Ginastera: Harp Concerto

  139 BPM
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  Blow out, you bugles, H 132

  Orchestral Works, Volume 6: A Royal Night of Variety / The Pageant of London / Berceuse / Chant d'espérance / Serenade / Orchestral Songs

  75 BPM
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  Chant d'esperance, H 18ii

  Orchestral Works, Volume 6: A Royal Night of Variety / The Pageant of London / Berceuse / Chant d'espérance / Serenade / Orchestral Songs

  138 BPM

Discography

Orchestral Works, Volume 1: Organ Concerto / Concerto for String Orchestra / Symphony for Strings

2008

The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet / Songs of the Sea / Songs of the Fleet

2006

Orchestral Works, Volume 6: A Royal Night of Variety / The Pageant of London / Berceuse / Chant d'espérance / Serenade / Orchestral Songs

2005

Orchestral Works, Volume 5: Suite / Valse Intermezzo / Two Entr'actes / Two Intermezzi / Two Old English Songs / Todessehnsucht / Sir Roger de Coverley / Two Songs of Robert Bridges / The Hag

2004

Orchestral Works, Volume 3: Coronation March / Phantasm / Summer / Vignettes de danse / There Is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook / Sir Roger de Coverley

2003

Mass in D major / Mass in B-flat major / Alma virgo

2002

Orchestral Works, Volume 2: The Sea / Dance Poem / Dance Rhapsody / Norse Legend / Five Entr'actes

2002

Symphony no. 5 / Symphony no. 8 / Ode to the Queen

1999

The Consul

1999

The Dancers / Harp Song of the Dane Women / Mariners' Song / Ave maris stella / Six Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems

1998

A Mass of Life / Requiem

1997

Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 6

1996

Symphony no. 9 "Sinfonia Sacra" / The Morning Watch

1996

Violin Concerto / Children's Suite after Walter de la Mare

1995

Troilus and Cressida

1995

Symphony no. 4 / Symphony no. 10 / Symphony no. 11

1995

Dido and Aeneas

1995

A Downland Suite / Concertino Pastorale / Two Symphonic Studies / Orchestral Poem

1995

After the Rain

1993

Music for Strings

1993

Concerto Leggiero / Concerto da Camera / Concerto da Chiesa

1992

Oboe Concerto / Three Concerti Grossi

1992

Gliere: Harp Concerto / Concerto for Coloratura Soprano / Ginastera: Harp Concerto

1992

La Flûte enchantée: French pieces for flute and orchestra

1990

Sea Drift / Appalachia

1989

Delius Miniatures

1986