Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

The Day Thou Gavest

Format: CD
Label: Herald
Release date: August 2013
Catalogue no: HAVPCD383

Evensong, a peaceful and reflective service built on the ancient monastic offices of Vespers and Compline, form the backbone of the work of many choral foundations, and is offered daily at Chichester Cathedral. This is a disc of the wonderful pieces of music performed regularly in the Chichester Cathedral.

• The Lord is My Shepherd (op. 91 part 1)

Performed by the Choir of Chichester Cathedral

Great Works for Flute and Orchestra

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: BIS
Release date: July 2013
Catalogue no: BIS1679

Sharon Bezaly's latest disc includes two central works from the repertoire for flute and orchestra – the concertos by Carl Nielsen and Carl Reinecke – as well as less often heard gems, such as Cécile Chaminade's melodious Concertino and Charles T. Griffes’ Poem, with its distinctive harmonies and colourful writing. The programme also includes a true rarity in Tchaikovsky’s youthful Largo and Allegro for flute and strings, written while the composer was still a student at the St Petersburg Conservatory. Poulenc's Sonata is of course one of the most popular pieces in the flute repertoire of the 20th century, but it is here performed in an unusual version for flute and orchestra, orchestrated by Lennox Berkeley, a friend of Poulenc. Throughout this colourful and varied programme, Sharon Bezaly enjoys the sympathetic support of Neeme Järvi and the Residentie Orchestra who also join her in the spectacular encore, the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s virtuosic arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumblebee. (Edited synopsis by BIS Records)

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

Performed by the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Sharon Bezaly (flute) & Neeme Järvi (conductor)

Sing Joyfully

Format: CD
Label: Joyful Company of Singers
Release date: June 2013
Catalogue no: JCOSCD01

• Three Latin Motets (op. 83 part 1)

Performed by the Joyful Company of Singers

Lennox & Michael Berkeley: Organ Works

Format: Digital download
Label: Resonus Classics
Release date: May 2013
Catalogue no: RES10119

• Andantino (op. 21 part 2b, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)
• Three Pieces (op. 72 part 1)
• Fantasia (op. 92)
• Impromptu

Performed by Tom Winpenny (organ)

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Entr'acte: Music for Flute & Guitar

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Cambridge Recordings
Release date: April 2013
Catalogue no: CAMREC005

The combination of flute and guitar has been described as enchanting and beautiful and this is surely demonstrated by the works featured on this recording. The Ramirez guitar is stylistically acceptable as a continuo instrument in the early works by Blavet and Rameau but it is perhaps in the other compositions where the combination of the two instruments brings a different perspective on well-known pieces.

• Three Pieces for Flute and Guitar (Arrangement by Adam Pounds of 'Five Short Pieces for Piano')
  • 1) Andante
  • 2) Moderato
  • 3) Allegro moderato

Performed by Adam Pounds (conductor) & Dinah Pounds (flute)

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English Recorder Works

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: NMC Records
Release date: April 2013
Catalogue no: MMC103

Also includes Malcolm Arnold: Sonatina op. 41, Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet & Solitaire; Gordon Jacob: Suite for Recorder and String Quartet; York Bowen: Sonata op. 121; Edmund Rubbra: Meditazioni sopra “Coeurs Désolés” op. 67.

• Sonatina (op. 13)

Performed by Jill Kemp (recorder) & Aleksander Szram (piano)

Lennox Berkeley Complete Music for Violin and Piano, and Solo Violin

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Move
Release date: December 2012
Catalogue no: MD 3361

• Sonata no. 2 (op. 1)
• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Introduction and Allegro (op. 24)
• Theme and Variations (op. 33 part 1)
• Elegy (op. 33 part 2a)
• Toccata (op. 33 part 3)
• Sonata no. 1

Performed by Arabella Teniswood-Harvey (piano) & Edwin Paling (violin)

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Christmas from Magdalen College Oxford

Format: CD
Label: Gift of Music
Release date: December 2012
Catalogue no: CCL CDG1268

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford present a programme of carols, anthems and organ music for Christmas which will inspire and uplift in equal measure. The sounds of boys’ voices soar in the warm and resonant acoustics of the fifteenth-century college chapel, with wonderful soloists drawn from the choir in an atmospheric selection featuring some of the greatest Christmas music of past and present. (Synopsis: Gift of Music)

• Look up sweet babe (op. 43 part 2)

Performed by the Choir of Magdalen College Oxford

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)