Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music
British Flute Music
Format: CD & Digital download- Sonatina (op. 13)
Performed by Jeffrey Khaner (flute) & Charles Abramovic (piano)
Favourite English Songs
Format: CD & Digital downloadFeatures O lurcher-loving collier (no. 2) from Five Poems by W H Auden
- Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
Performed by Felicity Lott (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Lotusland British Piano Album
Format: CDLabel: Mittenwald
Release date: August 2002
Catalogue no: MTWD 99008
Lotusland is an eclectic collection of eleven important British composers of the early 20th Century. Amongst those included on this CD are composers such as Cyril Scott, John Ireland, Frederik Delius, Benjamin Britten and Lennox Berkeley.
The Lennox Berkeley pieces included here are nos. 1, 4 and 6 of the Six Preludes and nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the Five Short Pieces. The CD is available from Harold Moores Records, the Barbican branch of the Farringdon Records chain and Longplayer in Canterbury.
Kumiko Ida
- Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
- Six Preludes (op. 23)
Performed by Kumiko Ida (piano)
Luigi Attademo: The Segovia Archive
Format: CDThe Segovia Archive is an important collection of compositions for guitar written for Andrés Segovia, mostly during the 1920s. Recent research among these papers in Linares has revealed unknown works dedicated to him by important composers including Cyril Scott, Lennox Berkeley, Henri Collet, Fernande Peyrot and others These works are being edited published by Angelo Gilardino, the artistic director of the Andrés Segovia Foundation for the Bèrben Edition (see publication no 4781 for the Berkeley work).
Since 2001 Luigi Attademo has studied this collection. He has recorded a CD published by the Italian magazine Seicorde covering the most important pieces of this unknown repertory. Among these are the hitherto unknown Quatre Pièces.
- Quatre pièces
Performed by Luigi Attademo (guitar)
And I Saw a New Heaven
Format: CD- The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
Performed by the Choir of Kingston Parish Church & Simon Toyne (conductor)
English Guitar Concertos
Format: CD & Digital downloadLabel: Chandos Records
Release date: January 2002
Catalogue no: CHAN 9963
- Concerto for Guitar (op. 88)
Performed by the Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor) & Craig Ogden (guitar)
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 1
Format: CD & Digital downloadLabel: Chandos Records
Release date: January 2002
Catalogue no: CHAN 9981
Chandos Records have produced a whole series of CDs each consisting of works by Lennox Berkeley and his son Michael Berkeley. Four have been recorded by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Richard Hickox. Each of the first four volumes include one of Lennox Berkeley's Symphonies, so that taken together they include all four of them; volume five features the Piano Concerto.
- Serenade (op. 12)
- Symphony no. 1 (op. 16)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 2
Format: CD & Digital downloadLabel: Chandos Records
Release date: January 2002
Catalogue no: CHAN 10022
- Symphony no. 3 (op. 74)
- Sinfonia Concertante (op. 84)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)
Angels' Song: The New Music of Salisbury Cathedral
Format: CD- The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
Performed by the Salisbury Cathedral Girls' Choir & Simon Lole (conductor)
Smörgasbord
Format: CD- Andantino (op. 21 part 2a, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)
Performed by Mats Lidström (cello) & Bengt Forsberg (piano)
The English Tenor Vol. 2
Format: CD- How Love Came In
Performed by Gordon Pullin (tenor) & Roger Fisher (piano)
The English Tenor Vol. 7
Format: CD- D'un vanneur de blé aux vents/The Thresher (2nd version of no. 1 of Three Early Songs)
Performed by Gordon Pullin (tenor) & Roger Fisher (piano)
O Magnum Mysterium
Format: CD- I Sing of a Maiden
Performed by the Choir of Lincoln College Oxford, Tom Lyndon (conductor) & Philip Smith (organ)
Song of the Black Swan
Format: CD- Andantino (op. 21 part 2a, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)
Performed by Lowri Blake (cello) & Hugh Webb (harp)
Ancient & Modern
Format: CDLabel: 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
Horn Trios
Format: CDLabel: Erato
Release date: October 2000
Catalogue no: 8573
- Trio (op. 44)
Performed by David Pyatt (horn), Levon Chilingirian (violin) & Peter Donohoe (piano)
Bennett, Berkeley, Britten
Format: CDLabel: Musisoft
Release date: September 2000
- Sonatina (op. 17)
Performed by the Trio Lengyel
O Thou Gentle Light
Format: CDLabel: Oakham School
Release date: September 2000
Available from: Music Department, Oakham School, Oakham, Rutland, UK Tel: +44 (0)1572 758797
- Look up sweet babe (op. 43 part 2)
- Thou Hast Made Me (op. 55 part 1)
Performed by David Woodcock (conductor) & Teilhard Scott (organ)
Julian Bream: The Ultimate Guitar Collection Volume 2
Format: CDFeatures the first movement of the Sonatina (op. 52/1), Allegretto
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
Performed by Julian Bream (guitar)
Psalms for the Soul
Format: CD & Digital download- The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
Performed by the St. John's Choir Elora & Noel Edison (conductor)