Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Magnificat

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Cambridge Recordings
Release date: December 2007
Catalogue no: CAMREC003

• I Sing of a Maiden

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

Lennox Berkeley: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 and 3

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: November 2007
Catalogue no: 8.570415

• String Quartet no. 1 (op. 6)
• String Quartet no. 2 (op. 15)
• String Quartet no. 3 (op. 76)

Performed by the Maggini Quartet

Hail Bright Cecilia 2

Format: CD
Label: Musicians' Benevolent Fund
Release date: November 2007
Available from: MBF Trading Ltd, Wrexham Tel: 01948 831074

This CD features a selection of anthems commissioned by the Musician's Benevolent Fund for the Festival of St. Cecilia.

• Thou Hast Made Me (op. 55 part 1)

Performed by the Voces Cantabiles, Gary Sieling (organ) & Ronald Corp (conductor)

Divertimentos & Sinfoniettas by Tippett, Britten, Arnold, Berkeley and Rawsthorne

Format: CD
Label: Lyrita
Release date: November 2007
Catalogue no: SRCD257

• Sinfonietta (op. 34)
  • 1) Allegro
  • 2) Lento - Allegro non troppo

Performed by the English Chamber Orchestra & Norman Del Mar (conductor)

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The British Double Bass

Format: CD
Label: Meridian Records
Release date: November 2007
Catalogue no: CDE84550

• Introduction & Allegro (op. 80)

Performed by Leon Bosch (double bass) & Sung-Suk Kang (piano)

Dennis Brain: Britten, Berkeley & Bach

Format: CD
Label: Opus Kura
Release date: September 2007
Catalogue no: OPK7034

• Trio (op. 44)

Performed by Dennis Brain (horn), Colin Horsley (piano) & Manoug Parikian (violin)

Lennox Berkeley: Piano Concerto in B flat, Concerto for Two Pianos

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Lyrita
Release date: August 2007
Catalogue no: SRCD250

• Concerto for Piano (op. 29)
• Concerto for Two Pianos (op. 30)

Performed by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar (conductor), Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor), David Wilde (piano), Garth Beckett (piano) & Boyd McDonald (piano)

Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Lyrita
Release date: June 2007
Catalogue no: SRCD249

• Symphony no. 1 (op. 16)
• Symphony no. 2 (op. 51)

Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar (conductor) & Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

The English Anthem Collection

Format: CD
Label: Regis Records
Release date: May 2007
Catalogue no: RRC4001

The Lennox Berkeley work appears as track 11 on disc four of this four CD set.

• Thou Hast Made Me (op. 55 part 1)

Performed by the Choir of Magdalen College Oxford & John Harper (conductor)

Roman Viazovskiy: Guitar Sonatas

Format: CD
Label: Classicclips
Release date: April 2007
Catalogue no: CLCL 102

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)

Performed by Roman Viazovskiy (guitar)

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)

Berkeley Conducts Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Lyrita
Release date: February 2007
Catalogue no: SRCD226

In this re-issue of recordings of Berkeley's orchestral works, the composer conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra himself. Note that only the Canzonetta from the Sinfonia Concertante is included. The CD appears thanks to a collaboration between record labels Lyrita and Nimbus. Audio samples courtesy of Lyrita Recorded Edition.

• Mont Juic (op. 9, Collaboration with Britten)
  • 1) Andante maestoso
  • 2) Allegro grazioso
  • 3) Andante moderato
  • 4) Allegro molto
• Serenade (op. 12)
• Divertimento in Bb (op. 18)
  • 1) Prelude
  • 2) Nocturne
  • 3) Scherzo
  • 4) Rondo
• Partita (op. 66)
• Symphony no. 3 (op. 74)
• Sinfonia Concertante (op. 84)

Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Lennox Berkeley (conductor)

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Shura Cherkassky: Recital

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Release date: January 2007
Catalogue no: WHLIVE0014

Includes Preludes 5 and 6 from Six Preludes (op. 23), and Polka (op. 5 part 1a)

• Polka (op. 5 part 1a, Arrangement)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by Shura Cherkassky (piano)

Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 6

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: November 2006
Catalogue no: CHAN 10408

• Concerto for Two Pianos (op. 30)

Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor), Kathryn Stott (piano) & Howard Shelley (piano)

Songs of the Half Light

Format: CD
Label: Carpe Diem
Release date: October 2006
Catalogue no: 16252

• Songs of the Half-Light (op. 65)

Performed by Cornelia Hellwig & Kathrin Görne (guitar)

The Schulze Organ at Armley

Format: CD
Label: Priory Records
Release date: October 2006
Catalogue no: PRCD 6005

• Fantasia (op. 92)

Performed by Arnold Mahon (organ)

Classic Children's Songs

Format: CD
Label: Just Accord
Release date: September 2006
Catalogue no: JUSCD003

Includes Poor Henry (no. 3 of Five de la Mare songs op. 26)

• Five Songs (op. 26, Walter de la Mare)

Performed by Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)

Britten Resonances

Format: CD
Label: Diversions
Release date: July 2006
Catalogue no: 24118

• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by Anthony Goldstone (piano)

Lennox Berkeley String Quartet No. 2, Michael Berkeley Abstract Mirror & Magnetic Field

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: April 2006
Catalogue no: CHAN 10364

• String Quartet no. 2 (op. 15)

Performed by the Chilingirian Quartet

Kathleen Ferrier and Friends

Format: CD
Label: Pearl
Release date: February 2006
Catalogue no: GEM0229

• Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila (op. 27)

Performed by the Hallé Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor) & Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)