Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music
Recordings of Theme and Variations are found on the following CD albums: (clear search)
Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet
Format: CDThe piano was Lennox Berkeley’s own instrument and his piano works represent a microcosm of his very best compositional talents. Influenced harmonically by French models, his music is suffused with lyricism and subtle harmonies. The Sonata, Op. 20 possesses a particularly haunting beauty in its slow movement, while simple but distinctive melodic and rhythmic ideas permeate the Six Preludes, Op. 23 and Five Short Pieces, Op. 4. The Theme and Variations, Op. 73, recorded here for the first time, offers a favourite Berkeley vehicle for conveying a highly individual and personal language. (Synopsis by Naxos)
- Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
- Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
- Six Preludes (op. 23)
- Sonatina (op. 39)
- Theme and Variations (op. 73)
- Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)
Performed by Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano)
Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet
Format: CD'This is some of the finest British piano music of the century' - Peter Dickinson, Gramophone Magazine, 1994
'Terroni plays them exquisitely … neat fingerwork … acute ear for pianistic colour and a strong sense of rhythm.' - Roderick Swanston, Classic CD, Gramophone Magazine Critics’ Choice 1994
- Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
- Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
- Six Preludes (op. 23)
- Sonatina (op. 39)
- Theme and Variations (op. 73)
- Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)
Performed by Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano)