Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music
The Best of British Composers
Features no. 5 of the Five Poems of W H Auden, Carry Her Over the Water
- Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
Performed by Ernest Lush (piano) & Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Sacred Choral Music
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)
Britten/Berkeley: Auden songs
Another of the 2003 releases from Naxos is a collection of settings of words by WH Auden, recorded by Philip Langridge (tenor), with Steuart Bedford (piano).
- Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (op. 14 part 2)
- Night Covers Up the Rigid Land (op. 14 part 2)
- Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
A Lennox Berkeley Centenary Album
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
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 3
- Symphony no. 4 (op. 94)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)
20th Century Flute Concertos
Also includes concertos by Nielson, Honegger and Ibert
- Flute Sonata (op. 93 part 2, by Francis Poulenc, orchestrated by LB)
Performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor) & Jennifer Stinton (flute)
The English Anthem Vol. II
- Thou Hast Made Me (op. 55 part 1)
Performed by the Choir of Magdalen College Oxford & John Harper (conductor)
Sir Lennox Berkeley, A Centenary Tribute
As a centenary tribute Hyperion Records released a CD of Lennox Berkeley's works, played by the Nash Ensemble. (Originally issued on Hyperion A66086)
- Sonatina (op. 39)
- Sextet (op. 47)
- Diversions for 8 instruments (op. 63)
- Oboe Quartet (op. 70)
- Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)
Performed by the Nash Ensemble
Trio plus Oboe
- String Trio (op. 19)
Performed by Valerie Rubin (violin), Martin Timphus (viola), Barbara Bode (oboe) & Markus Mayers (cello)
