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

Lennox Berkeley: Chamber Works for Wind, Strings and Piano

Format: CD
Label: Regis Records
Release date: November 2011
Catalogue no: RRC1380

Regis presents a brand new recording of the chamber works of Lennox Berkeley including two world premieres. Regis has had a long association with oboist Sarah Francis (there are six existing recordings in the catalogue) and is delighted to collaborate with her in this project. Sarah discovered the manuscripts for the new works in the Royal College of Music library and they are presented here with other works for similar forces. Extensive liner notes are provided by Berkeley’s biographer, Peter Dickinson. (Synopsis by Regis Records)

• String Trio (op. 19)
• Sonatina (op. 61)
• Oboe Quartet (op. 70)
• Suite
• Trio

Performed by the Tagore String Trio, Michael Dussek (piano), Sarah Francis (oboe) & Judith Fitton (flute)

Trio plus Oboe

Format: CD
Label: Cavalli Records
Release date: June 2003
Catalogue no: CCD 265

• String Trio (op. 19)

Performed by Valerie Rubin (violin), Martin Timphus (viola), Barbara Bode (oboe) & Markus Mayers (cello)

Perspektiven

Format: CD
Label: Cadenza
Release date: June 1996
Catalogue no: 800907

• String Trio (op. 19)

Performed by the Heidelberg String Trio