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)

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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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)

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)

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)