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)

Sir Lennox Berkeley, A Centenary Tribute

Format: CD
Label: Hyperion Records
Release date: July 2003
Catalogue no: CDH55135

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

Twentieth Century Piano Duets

Format: CD
Label: ASC
Release date: April 2000
Catalogue no: ASC CS CD13

• Sonatina (op. 39)

Performed by Helen Davies (piano) & Harvey Davies (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)