Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

The Evening Hour: British Choral Music from the 16th and 20th Centuries

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Signum
Release date: February 2016
Catalogue no: SIGCD446

The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge’s new release on Signum blends a selection of ancient and modern works from the 16th and 20th Centuries, all centred on the theme of evening.

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

Performed by the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge & Mark Wilson (conductor)

For the Wings of a Dove: Music for Supplication and Hope

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Orchard Classics
Release date: April 2015
Catalogue no: ORC100046

This recording concludes with a setting of one of the best-known psalm texts, 'The Lord is my Shepherd'. Composed in 1975 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of Chichester Cathedral, the music by Lennox Berkeley has a directness and simplicity that belies its harmonic subtlety. A sense of confidence and security is created by the strong tonal centre (on G major) which casts into greater relief the dissonances that Berkeley uses to depict ‘the valley of the shadow of death’. As in Mendelssohn’s ‘Hear my prayer’, the division of text between soloist and chorus captures both the personal and the universal nature of the psalmist’s text. (Synopsis (c) Silas Wollston, 2014)

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

Performed by the Choir of Queen's College Cambridge & Silas Wollston (conductor)

The Day Thou Gavest

Format: CD
Label: Herald
Release date: August 2013
Catalogue no: HAVPCD383

Evensong, a peaceful and reflective service built on the ancient monastic offices of Vespers and Compline, form the backbone of the work of many choral foundations, and is offered daily at Chichester Cathedral. This is a disc of the wonderful pieces of music performed regularly in the Chichester Cathedral.

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

Performed by the Choir of Chichester Cathedral

Resurrection

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Cambridge Recordings
Release date: April 2011
Catalogue no: CAMREC004

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

Performed by the Academy of Great St. Mary's & Samuel Hayes (conductor)

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A Choral Wedding

Format: CD
Label: Naxos
Release date: March 2011
Catalogue no: 8.578196-97

A special musical compendium for brides and grooms who are planning a church wedding ceremony, complete with church choir. CD1 is a selection of favourite anthems, many of which stem from the Anglican choral tradition and are popular choices for most church choirs. It includes Lennox Berkeley's The Lord is my Shepherd (op. 91/1). CD 2 is a selection of favourite hymns, well-known to many people and will provide either contemplative or rousing fare for your congregation. (Synopsis by Naxos)

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

Performed by the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, Jonathan Vaughn (organ) & Christopher Robinson (conductor)

Singing Away

Format: CD
Label: St. Peter's Collegiate Church
Release date: March 2011

This CD by the choirs of St. Peter's Collegiate Church was recorded at services in Carlisle and Lincoln Cathedrals and York Minster. Priced £10, all profits go to the Organ Restoration Appeal.

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

Performed by the St. Peter's Wolverhampton Choir

Hail, Gladdening Light

Format: CD
Label: York Ambisonic
Release date: November 2010
Catalogue no: YORK 212

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

Performed by the Choir of St. Giles Cathedral & Michael Harris (conductor)

Salve Puerule

Format: CD
Label: Herald
Release date: February 2009
Catalogue no: HAVPCD349

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

Performed by the Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, Andrew Swait (treble) & Alexander Ffinch (organ)

O be joyful in the Lord

Format: CD
Label: Guild
Release date: November 2008
Catalogue no: GMCD7325

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

Performed by the Lincoln Cathedral Choir, Aric Prentice (conductor), Charles Harrison (organ) & Christopher Mitchell (treble)

Hear my Words

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Signum
Release date: February 2008
Catalogue no: SIGCD115

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

Performed by the Eton College Chapel Choir, David Goode (organ) & Ralph Allwood (conductor)

In Quires and Places

Format: CD
Label: Herald
Release date: April 2007
Catalogue no: HAVPCD328

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

Performed by the Crypt Choir of The King's School & Howard Ionascu (conductor)

Voices of Praise

Format: CD
Label: EMI
Release date: August 2005
Catalogue no: 580882B

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

Performed by the Choir of King's College Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

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)

Sacred Choral Music

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: September 2003
Catalogue no: 8.557277

Note 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)

A Lennox Berkeley Centenary Album

Format: CD
Label: EMI
Release date: August 2003
Catalogue no: 585 1382

Track 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

And I Saw a New Heaven

Format: CD
Label: Herald
Release date: January 2002
Catalogue no: HAVP262

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

Performed by the Choir of Kingston Parish Church & Simon Toyne (conductor)

Angels' Song: The New Music of Salisbury Cathedral

Format: CD
Label: Griffin
Release date: October 2001
Catalogue no: GRI 4020

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

Performed by the Salisbury Cathedral Girls' Choir & Simon Lole (conductor)

Psalms for the Soul

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: July 2000
Catalogue no: 8.554823

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

Performed by the St. John's Choir Elora & Noel Edison (conductor)

Winchester Cathedral Choir: A Choral Showcase

Format: CD
Label: ASV
Release date: August 1999
Catalogue no: CD QS 6025

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

Performed by the Winchester Cathedral Choir, James Lancelot (organ) & Martin Neary (conductor)

Chichester Commissions

Format: CD
Label: Priory Records
Release date: July 1996
Catalogue no: PRCD 570

• The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (op. 99)

Performed by the Choir of Chichester Cathedral, Alan Thurlow (conductor) & James Thomas (organ)