Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music
English Song
Format: CD & Digital download- Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (op. 14 part 2)
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
A Dinner Engagement
Format: CD & Digital downloadA landmark among Lennox Berkeley recordings was the publication in June 2004 by Chandos Records of a performance of his short opera A Dinner Engagement in which Richard Hickox conducts the City of London Sinfonia.
- A Dinner Engagement (op. 45)
Performed by the City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Yvonne Kenny, Jean Rigby & Anne Collins
Azure
Format: CDLabel: Falcon Records
Release date: June 2004
Catalogue no: FAL 512
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Carl Herring’s reading is well-considered throughout. The pace of both the first movement (Allegretto) and last (Rondo) seem just right. Melodic lines are played with lovely cantabile and again the Lento is persuasive. The playing is a little more flexible than on some versions - Herring eases forward movement at times, and is thus able to reveal the eloquence of the musical language. This CD is an interesting programme, also including compositions by Turina, Rodrigo, Bach and Tippett.
Christopher Daly
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
Performed by Carl Herring (guitar)
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 4
Format: CD & Digital downloadLabel: Chandos Records
Release date: February 2004
Catalogue no: CHAN 10167
- Symphony no. 2 (op. 51)
- Voices of the Night (op. 86)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)
Fruit of a Different Vine
Format: CD & Digital download- Sonatina (op. 13)
Performed by Alayne Hall (piano) & Alison Melville (recorder)
The Best of British Composers
Format: CDFeatures no. 5 of the Five Poems of W H Auden, Carry Her Over the Water
- Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
Performed by Ernest Lush (piano) & Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Sacred Choral Music
Format: CD & Digital downloadNote that only the Toccata is included from the 3 Pieces for Organ (op. 72/1).
- A Festival Anthem (op. 21 part 2)
- Crux fidelis (op. 43 part 1)
- Look up sweet babe (op. 43 part 2)
- Missa Brevis (op. 57)
- Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)
- Three Pieces (op. 72 part 1)
- Three Latin Motets (op. 83 part 1)
- The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (op. 99)
Performed by the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge & Christopher Robinson (conductor)
Britten/Berkeley: Auden songs
Format: CD & Digital downloadAnother 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)
A Lennox Berkeley Centenary Album
Format: CDTrack 32 is the Polka (op. 5/1) played by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick (2 pianos, 3 hands)
- Polka (op. 5 part 1)
- Six Preludes (op. 23)
- Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila (op. 27)
- Three Greek Songs (op. 38)
- Trio (op. 44)
- Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
- The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
- I Sing of a Maiden
Performed by the Collegium Musicum Londinii, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Dennis Brain (horn), Colin Horsley (piano), Pamela Bowden (contralto), John Minchinton (conductor), Manoug Parikian (violin), Ernest Lush (piano), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Phyllis Sellick, Cyril Smith, Andrew Davis, David Willcocks (conductor), Christopher Hughes, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) & Thomas Rose
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 3
Format: CD & Digital download- Symphony no. 4 (op. 94)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)
20th Century Flute Concertos
Format: CDAlso includes concertos by Nielson, Honegger and Ibert
- Flute Sonata (op. 93 part 2, by Francis Poulenc, orchestrated by LB)
Performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor) & Jennifer Stinton (flute)
The English Anthem Vol. II
Format: CD- Thou Hast Made Me (op. 55 part 1)
Performed by the Choir of Magdalen College Oxford & John Harper (conductor)
Sir Lennox Berkeley, A Centenary Tribute
Format: CDAs a centenary tribute Hyperion Records released a CD of Lennox Berkeley's works, played by the Nash Ensemble. (Originally issued on Hyperion A66086)
- Sonatina (op. 39)
- Sextet (op. 47)
- Diversions for 8 instruments (op. 63)
- Oboe Quartet (op. 70)
- Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)
Performed by the Nash Ensemble
Trio plus Oboe
Format: CD- String Trio (op. 19)
Performed by Valerie Rubin (violin), Martin Timphus (viola), Barbara Bode (oboe) & Markus Mayers (cello)
Format: Digital downloadJanet Baker
Format: CDLabel: BBC Legends
Release date: April 2003
Catalogue no: BBCL41172
- Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
Performed by Janet Baker & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Lo, the full, final sacrifice
Format: CD- A Festival Anthem (op. 21 part 2)
Performed by the St. Albans Abbey Girls Choir, Simon Johnson (conductor) & James McVinnie (organ)
British Music for Piano Duet
Format: CDLabel: Campion Records
Release date: February 2003
Catalogue no: RRCD1353
- Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)
Performed by Peter Lawson & Alan MacLean
The Saint Thomas Tradition
Format: CDIncludes Regina Coeli (no. 3 of Three Latin Motets, op 83/1)
- Three Latin Motets (op. 83 part 1)
Performed by the Choir of Saint Thomas Church, Gerre Hancock (conductor) & Judith Hancock (organ)
Triple Treble
Format: CDRelease date: January 2003
On this CD, Marina Klunder (Treble recorder) and Gini Tamboer (Piano) have recorded Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina Op 13. Works by other 20th Century composers (Hans-George Burghardt and Herbert Baumann) are also included. The Berkeley Sonatina is more often played on the flute (notably by James Galway), but it was written for the recorder player Carl Dolmetsch in 1939. So this CD provides the opportunity to hear the work played as originally intended.
- Sonatina (op. 13)
Performed by Marina Klunder (treble recorder) & Gini Tamboer (piano)