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: The Complete Piano Works

Format: Digital download
Label: Hoxa
Release date: June 2018
Catalogue no: 5060024370379
Available from: CD Baby, Portland, Oregon, USA Tel: +1 503 595 3000 Email: cdbaby@cdbaby.com

Douglas Stevens performs the entire solo piano output of Lennox Berkeley, expertly navigating his influences and confluences in musical style with passion, verve and tenderness. (Synopsis by CD Baby)

• Three Pieces (op. 2, Etude, Berceuse & Capriccio)
• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Polka (op. 5 part 1a, Arrangement)
• Three lmpromptus (op. 7)
• Four Concert Studies (op. 14 part 1)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Three Mazurkas (op. 32 part 1, Hommage ­à Chopin)
• Scherzo (op. 32 part 2)
• Toccata (op. 33 part 3)
• Concert Study in Eb (op. 48 part 2)
• Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (op. 55 part 2)
• Four Piano Studies (op. 82)
• Prelude and Capriccio (op. 95)
• For Vere
• March
• Mr Pilkington's Toye
• Paysage
• Piano Pieces

Performed by Douglas Stevens (piano)

Music for the Queen of Heaven: contemporary Marian motets

Format: CD
Label: Delphian Records
Release date: October 2017
Catalogue no: DCD34190

The Marian Consort originally made its name with the music of the Renaissance. But the group has also worked regularly with living composers for a number of years. This programme of contemporary Marian anthems - many of them commissioned by the ensemble - celebrates a living, developing tradition where the new is always informed by the old, casting fresh, vital light on these ancient words. Includes 'Regina coeli laetare' (No. 3 of Three Latin Motets op. 83/1 by Lennox Berkeley)

• Three Latin Motets (op. 83 part 1)

Performed by the Marian Consort

Simmetrie E Contrasti Nel '900

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: dotGuitar.it
Release date: August 2017
Catalogue no: G1701

• Quatre pièces

Performed by Simone Rinaldo (guitar)

Guitar Recital by Xianji Liu

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: August 2017
Catalogue no: 8.573813

When Xianji Liu became the first Chinese-born winner of the prestigious Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition in 2016, a new star emerged in the world of the classical guitar. Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe from Argentina to Britain, his recital includes some of the most beguiling and evocative pieces ever written for the instrument as well as four transcriptions so idiomatic to the guitar that they sound utterly natural on the six plucked strings. (Synopsis by Naxos Records)

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)

Performed by Xianji Lui (guitar)