Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

So Many Stars

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Stone Records
Release date: February 2019
Catalogue no: 5060192780826

Here is a unique and very welcome collection of Sonatinas for Violin and Piano, a genre often overlooked in our teeming world, with most of them (not necessarily the best) being by British composers, performed by Fenella Humphreys, violin, and Nicola Eimer, piano. It contains Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina for Violin and Piano op 17 plus works by Alwyn, Crosse, Françaix, Frances Head and Sibelius. The recording quality is very fine, as is the playing of both of these gifted artists. This is an exceptionally well-planned issue, one which ought to find a place in the collection of any lover of music for violin and piano, and especially of British music. (synopsis by Classical Source)

• Sonatina (op. 17)

Performed by Fenella Humphrey (violin) & Nicola Eimer (piano)

Lennox Berkeley Complete Music for Violin and Piano, and Solo Violin

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Move
Release date: December 2012
Catalogue no: MD 3361

• Sonata no. 2 (op. 1)
• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Introduction and Allegro (op. 24)
• Theme and Variations (op. 33 part 1)
• Elegy (op. 33 part 2a)
• Toccata (op. 33 part 3)
• Sonata no. 1

Performed by Arabella Teniswood-Harvey (piano) & Edwin Paling (violin)

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Edmund Rubbra, Lennox Berkeley & Franz Reizenstein

Format: CD
Label: Dutton Vocalion
Release date: July 2010
Catalogue no: CDLX 7232

Performed by Lennox Berkeley (piano) and Frederick Grinke (violin). This remaster of the Sonatina was originally recorded in London in May 1954. The CD also includes Edmund Rubbra's Sonata no. 2 for Violin & Piano op. 31 (1932) and Franz Reizenstein's Prologue, Variations and Finale for Violin & Piano op.12 (1937).

• Sonatina (op. 17)

Alan Rawsthorne, Lennox Berkeley, Alan Bush

Format: CD
Label: Lyrita
Release date: February 2008
Catalogue no: SRCD256

• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Sextet (op. 47)

Performed by the Music Group of London

Lennox Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: June 2005
Catalogue no: 8.557324

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Andantino (op. 21 part 2a, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Concertino (op. 49)
• Duo (op. 81 part 1)
• Mazurka (op. 101 part 2)
• Three Pieces

Performed by the Schirmer Ensemble

Bennett, Berkeley, Britten

Format: CD
Label: Musisoft
Release date: September 2000

• Sonatina (op. 17)

Performed by the Trio Lengyel

Distinguished Performers Series I

Format: CD
Label: Vienna Modern Masters
Catalogue no: VN132
Available from: Electronic Music Foundation, Albany, New York, USA Tel: +1 518 434 4110

• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Introduction and Allegro (op. 24)

Performed by Michael Davis (violin) & Nelson Harper (piano)