Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet

Format: CD
Label: Naxos
Release date: December 2015
Catalogue no: 8.571369

The 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)

Lennox Berkeley, Arthur Benjamin: Works for Piano

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Lyrita
Release date: July 2008
Catalogue no: REAM.2109

• Three lmpromptus (op. 7)
• Four Concert Studies (op. 14 part 1)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Scherzo (op. 32 part 2)
• Concert Study in Eb (op. 48 part 2)

Performed by Colin Horsley (piano)

Piano Works by Lennox and Michael Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: October 2004
Catalogue no: CHAN 10247

Two Berkeley recordings from Chandos Records were released in Autumn 2004. The first is a collection of piano music (together with Strange Meeting by Michael Berkeley) played by Margaret Fingerhut.

• Three Pieces (op. 2, Etude, Berceuse & Capriccio)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Three Mazurkas (op. 32 part 1, Hommage ­à Chopin)
• Scherzo (op. 32 part 2)
• Concert Study in Eb (op. 48 part 2)
• Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (op. 55 part 2)
• Paysage

Performed by Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet

Format: CD
Label: British Music Society
Release date: January 1994
Catalogue no:  BMS 416 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)

Sir Lennox Berkeley: Selected Compositions for Piano Solo

Format: CD
Label: Kingdom Records
Release date: January 1989
Catalogue no: KCLCD 2012

• Three Pieces (op. 2, Etude, Berceuse & Capriccio)
• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Polka (op. 5 part 1a, Arrangement)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Three Mazurkas (op. 32 part 1, Hommage ­à Chopin)
• Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (op. 55 part 2)
• Mazurka (op. 101 part 2)
• Paysage

Performed by Christopher Headington (piano)