Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Fruit of a Different Vine

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Atma
Release date: January 2004
Catalogue no: ACD22206

• Sonatina (op. 13)

Performed by Alayne Hall (piano) & Alison Melville (recorder)

The Best of British Composers

Format: CD
Label: EMI
Release date: October 2003
Catalogue no: 5 85156 2

Features no. 5 of the Five Poems of W H Auden, Carry Her Over the Water

• Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)

Performed by Ernest Lush (piano) & Thomas Hemsley (baritone)

Sacred Choral Music

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: September 2003
Catalogue no: 8.557277

Note that only the Toccata is included from the 3 Pieces for Organ (op. 72/1).

• A Festival Anthem (op. 21 part 2)
• Crux fidelis (op. 43 part 1)
• Look up sweet babe (op. 43 part 2)
• Missa Brevis (op. 57)
• Mass for Five Voices (op. 64)
• Three Pieces (op. 72 part 1)
• Three Latin Motets (op. 83 part 1)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (op. 99)

Performed by the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge & Christopher Robinson (conductor)

Britten/Berkeley: Auden songs

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: September 2003
Catalogue no: 8.557204

Another of the 2003 releases from Naxos is a collection of settings of words by WH Auden, recorded by Philip Langridge (tenor), with Steuart Bedford (piano).

• Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (op. 14 part 2)
• Night Covers Up the Rigid Land (op. 14 part 2)
• Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)

A Lennox Berkeley Centenary Album

Format: CD
Label: EMI
Release date: August 2003
Catalogue no: 585 1382

Track 32 is the Polka (op. 5/1) played by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick (2 pianos, 3 hands)

• Polka (op. 5 part 1)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila (op. 27)
• Three Greek Songs (op. 38)
• Trio (op. 44)
• Five Poems (op. 53, W. H. Auden)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)
• I Sing of a Maiden

Performed by the Collegium Musicum Londinii, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Dennis Brain (horn), Colin Horsley (piano), Pamela Bowden (contralto), John Minchinton (conductor), Manoug Parikian (violin), Ernest Lush (piano), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Phyllis Sellick, Cyril Smith, Andrew Davis, David Willcocks (conductor), Christopher Hughes, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) & Thomas Rose