Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music
English Song
Format: CD & Digital download- Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (op. 14 part 2)
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
A Dinner Engagement
Format: CD & Digital downloadA landmark among Lennox Berkeley recordings was the publication in June 2004 by Chandos Records of a performance of his short opera A Dinner Engagement in which Richard Hickox conducts the City of London Sinfonia.
- A Dinner Engagement (op. 45)
Performed by the City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Yvonne Kenny, Jean Rigby & Anne Collins
Azure
Format: CDLabel: Falcon Records
Release date: June 2004
Catalogue no: FAL 512
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Carl Herring’s reading is well-considered throughout. The pace of both the first movement (Allegretto) and last (Rondo) seem just right. Melodic lines are played with lovely cantabile and again the Lento is persuasive. The playing is a little more flexible than on some versions - Herring eases forward movement at times, and is thus able to reveal the eloquence of the musical language. This CD is an interesting programme, also including compositions by Turina, Rodrigo, Bach and Tippett.
Christopher Daly
- Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)
Performed by Carl Herring (guitar)
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 4
Format: CD & Digital downloadLabel: Chandos Records
Release date: February 2004
Catalogue no: CHAN 10167
- Symphony no. 2 (op. 51)
- Voices of the Night (op. 86)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)
Fruit of a Different Vine
Format: CD & Digital download- Sonatina (op. 13)
Performed by Alayne Hall (piano) & Alison Melville (recorder)
The Best of British Composers
Format: CDFeatures 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 downloadNote 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 downloadAnother 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: CDTrack 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
Lennox & Michael Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 3
Format: CD & Digital download- Symphony no. 4 (op. 94)
Performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox (conductor)