Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Shine and Shade

Format: CD
Label: Red Priest Recordings
Release date: October 2012
Catalogue no: RPO10

Re-release of the 1999 Upbeat Classics disc of the same name. "An appealing disc full of vigorous character and ideas, not to say stunning virtuosity." - Classic FM Magazine (Recording of the Month, December 1999)

"Piers Adams demonstrates superbly just how varied composers' responses have been to the unusual combination and how often they have written beautiful movements that stand comparison with any modern wind and piano sonatas. Adams and Rhodes play with superb rapport and find all kinds of different expressive characters for the very different pieces. This CD is a delight." - Classic CD Magazine

• Sonatina (op. 13)

Performed by Piers Adams (recorder) & Julian Rhodes (piano)

Alberto Mesirca: British Guitar Music

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Paladino Music
Release date: July 2012
Catalogue no: PMR0027

Also works by Benjamin Britten, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, John Dowland, Robert Fripp and Graham Whettam.

• Quatre pièces

Performed by Alberto Mesirca (guitar)

British Song

Format: CD
Label: Heritage Records
Release date: June 2012
Catalogue no: HTGCD240
Available from: Regis Records, Tolpuddle, Dorset Tel: 01305 848983

Major contributions to voice and piano repertoire commissioned by the Dickinsons from Jonathan Harvey (Correspondances), Lennox Berkeley (Five Chinese Songs), Gordon Crosse (the New World) as well as Lutyens (Stevie Smith Songs) and Peter Dickinson (Surrealist Landscape and Extravaganzas) now reissued from LP and CD.

Also available by the Dickinsons is the Heritage CD231 'American song'. Unknown recordings from the widely acclaimed partnership transferred from LP for the first time with extra material. Three songs by Gershwin, first recordings of Cage (five songs 1938), carter (Three Poems of Robert Frost; voyage), Copland (Poet's Song; Night Thoughts for Piano) and Thomson (two by marianne moore; portrait of F.B). Nine songs from Copland's 'Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson'. Historic CD booklet with comments about this recording from the composers.

• Five Chinese Songs (op. 78)

Performed by Peter Dickinson (piano) & Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano)

British Flute Concertos

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: March 2012
Catalogue no: CHAN10718

• Concerto for Flute (op. 36)
• Flute Sonata (op. 93 part 2, by Francis Poulenc, orchestrated by LB)

Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Emily Beynon (flute) & Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

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Julian Bream in Concerto

Format: CD
Label: Alto
Release date: February 2012
Catalogue no: ALC1174

Julian Bream does everything, it goes without saying emotional depth is in the second movement of the Arnold, the slow movement - a threnody for Django Reinhardt - most imaginative. This concerto was written for Julian Bream and he plays it magnificently, as do the Melos Ensemble. The recording is first-rate - clear but not at all clinical ... The Giuliani demonstrates Bream's technique and musicianship (Gramophone). Berkeley: Sonatina - an enjoyably amiable piece; Ravel: Pavane - very relaxed account; Roussel: Segovia - a characteristic touch of acerbity; the two sonatas of Cimarosa both very personable (Penguin Guide).

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)

Performed by Julian Bream (guitar)