Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet

Format: CD
Label: Naxos
Release date: December 2015
Catalogue no: 8.571369

The piano was Lennox Berkeley’s own instrument and his piano works represent a microcosm of his very best compositional talents. Influenced harmonically by French models, his music is suffused with lyricism and subtle harmonies. The Sonata, Op. 20 possesses a particularly haunting beauty in its slow movement, while simple but distinctive melodic and rhythmic ideas permeate the Six Preludes, Op. 23 and Five Short Pieces, Op. 4. The Theme and Variations, Op. 73, recorded here for the first time, offers a favourite Berkeley vehicle for conveying a highly individual and personal language. (Synopsis by Naxos)

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Sonatina (op. 39)
• Theme and Variations (op. 73)
• Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)

Performed by Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano)

Lennox Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: June 2005
Catalogue no: 8.557324

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Andantino (op. 21 part 2a, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Concertino (op. 49)
• Duo (op. 81 part 1)
• Mazurka (op. 101 part 2)
• Three Pieces

Performed by the Schirmer Ensemble

Lotusland British Piano Album

Format: CD
Label: Mittenwald
Release date: August 2002
Catalogue no: MTWD 99008

Lotusland is an eclectic collection of eleven important British composers of the early 20th Century. Amongst those included on this CD are composers such as Cyril Scott, John Ireland, Frederik Delius, Benjamin Britten and Lennox Berkeley.

The Lennox Berkeley pieces included here are nos. 1, 4 and 6 of the Six Preludes and nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the Five Short Pieces. The CD is available from Harold Moores Records, the Barbican branch of the Farringdon Records chain and Longplayer in Canterbury.

Kumiko Ida

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by Kumiko Ida (piano)

Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet

Format: CD
Label: British Music Society
Release date: January 1994
Catalogue no:  BMS 416 CD

'This is some of the finest British piano music of the century' - Peter Dickinson, Gramophone Magazine, 1994

'Terroni plays them exquisitely … neat fingerwork … acute ear for pianistic colour and a strong sense of rhythm.' - Roderick Swanston, Classic CD, Gramophone Magazine Critics’ Choice 1994

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Sonatina (op. 39)
• Theme and Variations (op. 73)
• Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)

Performed by Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano)

Sir Lennox Berkeley: Selected Compositions for Piano Solo

Format: CD
Label: Kingdom Records
Release date: January 1989
Catalogue no: KCLCD 2012

• Three Pieces (op. 2, Etude, Berceuse & Capriccio)
• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Polka (op. 5 part 1a, Arrangement)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Three Mazurkas (op. 32 part 1, Hommage ­à Chopin)
• Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (op. 55 part 2)
• Mazurka (op. 101 part 2)
• Paysage

Performed by Christopher Headington (piano)