Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Sir Frederick Ashton Ballets

Format: CD
Label: Dutton Vocalion
Release date: February 2005
Catalogue no: CDLX 7149

This collection of music for Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets was published in February 2005 by Dutton Vocalion. It opens with a recording of Lennox Berkeley's The Judgement of Paris in which Barry Wordsworth conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. This is the first recording of this work, which was written for Sir Frederick in 1938, and first performed at Sadler's Wells in May that year. Also includes works by Lambert and Lanchbery.

• The Judgement of Paris (op. 10 part 2)

Performed by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 5

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: January 2005
Catalogue no: CHAN 10265

• Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila (op. 27)
• Concerto for Piano (op. 29)

Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor), Howard Shelley (piano) & Catherine Wyn Rogers (contralto)

British Guitar Music

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: January 2005
Catalogue no: 8.557040

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
• Theme and Variations (op. 77)
• Quatre pièces

Performed by Graham Anthony Devine (guitar)

Jeff Rodrigues: 20th Century Guitar

Format: CD
Release date: January 2005
Available from: Guitar CDs Ltd, Lewes, East Sussex, UK Tel: 01273 470793

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)

Performed by Jeff Rodrigues (guitar)

The Tend'rest Breast: Settings of women's poetry

Format: CD
Label: Dunelm Records
Release date: January 2005
Catalogue no: DRD0237

Includes the first of the Three Greek Songs (op. 38), Epitaph of Timas

• Three Greek Songs (op. 38)

Performed by Nigel Foster (piano) & Georgina Colwell (soprano)

Romance

Format: CD
Label: King's Chamber Orchestra
Release date: January 2005
Catalogue no: BHSS 0507

• Andantino (op. 21 part 2a, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)

Performed by the King's Chamber Orchestra

Janet Craxton: Music for Oboe and Strings

Format: CD
Label: Oboe Classics
Release date: December 2004
Catalogue no: CC2011

• Oboe Quartet (op. 70)

Performed by the London Oboe Quartet & Janet Craxton (oboe)

Guitar Works by Lennox and Michael Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: November 2004
Catalogue no: CHAN 10261

The second Berkeley recording from Chandos Records in Autumn 2004 was a collection of guitar music (together with pieces by Michael Berkeley), played by Craig Ogden.

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
• Theme and Variations (op. 77)
• Quatre pièces

Performed by Craig Ogden (guitar)

Piano Works by Lennox and Michael Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: October 2004
Catalogue no: CHAN 10247

Two Berkeley recordings from Chandos Records were released in Autumn 2004. The first is a collection of piano music (together with Strange Meeting by Michael Berkeley) played by Margaret Fingerhut.

• Three Pieces (op. 2, Etude, Berceuse & Capriccio)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Three Mazurkas (op. 32 part 1, Hommage ­à Chopin)
• Scherzo (op. 32 part 2)
• Concert Study in Eb (op. 48 part 2)
• Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (op. 55 part 2)
• Paysage

Performed by Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

One Day in Thy Courts

Format: CD
Label: Priory Records
Release date: September 2004
Catalogue no: PRCD 821

• The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)