Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Lennox Berkeley: Chamber Works

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Resonus Classics
Release date: March 2015
Catalogue no: RES10149

Following their acclaimed debut recording (Clarion Call - RES10127), the Berkeley Ensemble returns with a programme of chamber works by the British composer Lennox Berkeley, one of the two composers (father and son) after whom the group gets its name.

Featuring a number of world premiere recordings, the ensemble presents a selection of works that covers most of Berkeley’s creative life from the early Francophile clarinet 'Sonatine' written in Paris while a student of Nadia Boulanger to the inventive 'Introduction and Allegro' for double bass and piano. Also featured are the 'Three solo pieces' for viola and the large scale 'String Trio' Op. 19 and 'Sextet' Op. 47 for clarinet, horn and string quartet, and the emotive miniature 'In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky'. (Synopsis by Resonus)

This recording is supported by a grant from the Lennox Berkeley Society.

• Introduction & Allegro (op. 11)
• String Trio (op. 19)
• Sextet (op. 47)
• In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky
• Piece
• Sonatine
• Three Pieces

Performed by the Berkeley Ensemble

Alan Rawsthorne, Lennox Berkeley, Alan Bush

Format: CD
Label: Lyrita
Release date: February 2008
Catalogue no: SRCD256

• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Sextet (op. 47)

Performed by the Music Group of London

Sir Lennox Berkeley, A Centenary Tribute

Format: CD
Label: Hyperion Records
Release date: July 2003
Catalogue no: CDH55135

As a centenary tribute Hyperion Records released a CD of Lennox Berkeley's works, played by the Nash Ensemble. (Originally issued on Hyperion A66086)

• Sonatina (op. 39)
• Sextet (op. 47)
• Diversions for 8 instruments (op. 63)
• Oboe Quartet (op. 70)
• Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)

Performed by the Nash Ensemble

Berkeley

Format: CD
Label: Dutton Vocalion
Release date: March 1999
Catalogue no: CDLX 7100

• Introduction and Allegro (op. 24)
• Elegy (op. 33 part 2a)
• Toccata (op. 33 part 3)
• Sextet (op. 47)
• Concertino (op. 49)
• Oboe Quartet (op. 70)
• Duo (op. 81 part 1)
• Petite Suite

Performed by the Endymion Ensemble, Helen Keen (flute), Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Jane Salmon (cello), Michael Dussek (piano), Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Asdis Valdimarsdottir (viola), Mark van der Wiel (clarinet) & Stephen Stirling (horn)