Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Stabat Mater: Sacred Choral Music by Lennox & Michael Berkeley

Format: CD
Label: Delphian Records
Release date: July 2016
Catalogue no: DCD34180
Available from: Presto Classical

Lennox Berkeley’s Stabat Mater derives from one of the most fertile and inspired periods of his compositional life. A masterpiece, and until now the last of his major works to go unrecorded, it was written for a concert tour by his close friend Benjamin Britten’s English Opera Group; hence the unusual but effective scoring for six solo voices and twelve instrumentalists. Delphian artists The Marian Consort - with five acclaimed discs of early music to their credit - now show their versatility in a cappella and accompanied music by both Lennox and his son Michael Berkeley. They are partnered in the larger works by the Berkeley Ensemble, whose performances are enriched by their intimate knowledge of these composers’ music. The same can be said of conductor David Wordsworth, who has known and worked with both composers, and who here realises a long-cherished ambition to direct this important addition to the catalogue. (Synopsis by Delphian/Presto Classical)

• Stabat Mater (op. 28)
• Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)
• Judica me (op. 96 part 1)

Performed by the Marian Consort, Berkeley Ensemble & David Wordsworth (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)

Ancient & Modern

Format: CD
Label: Parish Recordings
Release date: January 2001
Catalogue no: Parec CD003
Available from: Bristol Bach Choir

Premiere recording on CD of 'Three Pieces for Organ' (1971) by Lennox Berkeley. Also choral works by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Lennox Berkeley, Johann Bach and Johann Michael Bach.

• Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)
• Three Pieces (op. 72 part 1)

Performed by the Bristol Bach Choir, Nigel Nash (organ) & Peter Leech

Et in Terra Pax

Format: CD
Label: Lammas
Release date: March 2000
Catalogue no: LAMM 124D

• Look up sweet babe (op. 43 part 2)
• Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)

Performed by the Girls and Men of Sheffield Cathedral Choir, Neil Taylor (conductor) & Peter Heginbotham (organ)

Choral Works: Poulenc, Milhaud, Finzi, Berkeley

Format: CD
Label: Priory Records
Release date: October 1993
Catalogue no: PRCD 292
Available from: Priory Records, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire Tel: 01525 377566 Email: sales@priory.org.uk

• Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)

Performed by the Michael Brewer Singers & Michael Brewer (conductor)

Lennox Berkeley Choral Music

Format: CD
Label: Meridian Records
Release date: January 1991
Catalogue no: CDE 84216

• A Festival Anthem (op. 21 part 2)
• Salve Regina (op. 48 part 1)
• Thou Hast Made Me (op. 55 part 1)
• Missa Brevis (op. 57)
• Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)
• Three Latin Motets (op. 83 part 1)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
• Judica me (op. 96 part 1)
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (op. 99)

Performed by the Choir of Clare College Cambridge & Timothy Brown (conductor)