Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music
Sweet Swan of Avon
Includes the song Daffodils from incidental music by Lennox Berkeley to The Winter's Tale
Perspektiven
Label: Cadenza
Release date: June 1996
Catalogue no: 800907
- String Trio (op. 19)
Performed by the Heidelberg String Trio
The Message of Christmas
- I Sing of a Maiden
Performed by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral & Stephen Layton (organ)
Spirit of England II
- Serenade (op. 12)
Performed by the English String Orchestra & William Boughton (conductor)
The English Anthem Vol. 5
- The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
Performed by the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral & John Scott (conductor)
Tippett: The Blue Guitar
The CD takes its name from Michael Tippett's Sonata, influenced by a poem by Wallace Stevens which was inspired by Picasso's blue period painting The Old Guitarist. Also works by Britten, R. R. Bennett and Walton as well as Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina.
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
Performed by Craig Ogden (guitar)
Guitar Originals
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
Performed by Vincea McClelland (guitar)
A Shropshire Lad
Includes 'Because I liked you better' and 'He would not stay for me' from Five Housman Songs, op 14/3
- Five Housman Songs (op. 14 part 3)
Performed by Graham Johnson (piano) & Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Distinguished Performers Series II
Label: Vienna Modern Masters
Release date: January 1995
Catalogue no: VN107
Available from: Electronic Music Foundation, Albany, New York, USA Tel: +1 518 434 4110
- Theme and Variations (op. 33 part 1)
- Toccata (op. 33 part 3)
Performed by Michael Davis (violin) & Nelson Harper (piano)
Twentieth Century Guitar I
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
- Theme and Variations (op. 77)
Performed by Julian Bream (guitar)
Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet
'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)
Richard Jacobowski Plays Giuliani, Milano, Dowland, Carlevaro, Villa-Lobos, Falla & Berkeley
Label: Gateway Classics
Release date: November 1993
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
Performed by Richard Jacobowski (guitar)
Garlands for the Queen: Music for the Celebration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
- Spring At This Hour (op. 37 part 2)
Performed by the Bristol Bach Choir & Glyn Jenkins
The Bristol Mass
- Missa Brevis (op. 57)
Performed by the Choir of Bristol Cathedral & Christopher Brayne (conductor)
Choral Works: Poulenc, Milhaud, Finzi, Berkeley
Label: Priory Records
Release date: October 1993
Catalogue no: PRCD 292
Available from: Priory Records, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire Tel: 01525 377566 Email: sales@priory.org.uk
- Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)
Performed by the Michael Brewer Singers & Michael Brewer (conductor)
English String Music
Label: Imp Masters
Release date: September 1993
- Serenade (op. 12)
Performed by the English Sinfonia & John Farrer (conductor)
Child of Light
Label: Continuum
Release date: August 1993
Catalogue no: CCD1043
- In Wintertime (op. 103)
Performed by the Elysian Singers & Matthew Greenall (conductor)
Guitar Concertos
Also features Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez, and Brouwer, Concerto elegiaco (No. 3).
- Concerto for Guitar (op. 88)
Performed by the Monteverdi Orchestra, Julian Bream (guitar) & John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Britten/Berkeley: Complete Works for Voice & Solo Guitar
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
- Songs of the Half-Light (op. 65)
- Theme and Variations (op. 77)
Performed by Ian Partridge (tenor) & Jukka Savijoki (guitar)
Holst, Walton, Berkeley
- Magnificat (op. 71)
Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Adrian Boult (conductor)