Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Nocturnes

Format: Digital download
Label: Pro Studio Masters
Release date: March 2015

Since the beginning of time, the night and its mysteries have inspired poets and musicians. Rupert Charlesworth, one of the UK’s most promising young tenors, is joined at the piano by Edwige Herchenroder for this recital that includes English songs, French melodies and Lieder, all about the nighttime. Ranging from the known (Schubert, Brahms, Fauré) to the lesser known (Bax, Finzi, Berkeley), Charlesworth and Herchenroder embark on this fascinating nocturnal promenade through diverse aesthetics, troubling atmospheres and profoundly contrasting emotions; their ode to the night. Includes no. 4. 'Eyes look into the well' and no. 5. 'Carry her over the water' from 'Five Poems' op. 53, and no. 5. 'Silver' from 'Five Poems' op. 26. (Synopsis by Pro Studio Masters)

• Five Songs (op. 26, Walter de la Mare)
• Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)

Performed by Rupert Charlesworth (tenor) & Edwige Herchenroder (piano)

Britten/Berkeley: Auden songs

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: September 2003
Catalogue no: 8.557204

Another of the 2003 releases from Naxos is a collection of settings of words by WH Auden, recorded by Philip Langridge (tenor), with Steuart Bedford (piano).

• Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (op. 14 part 2)
• Night Covers Up the Rigid Land (op. 14 part 2)
• Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)

Favourite English Songs

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: August 2002
Catalogue no: CHAN 6653

Features O lurcher-loving collier (no. 2) from Five Poems by W H Auden

• Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)

Performed by Felicity Lott (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)