Recordings of Lennox Berkeley's music

Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet

Format: CD
Label: Naxos
Release date: December 2015
Catalogue no: 8.571369

The piano was Lennox Berkeley’s own instrument and his piano works represent a microcosm of his very best compositional talents. Influenced harmonically by French models, his music is suffused with lyricism and subtle harmonies. The Sonata, Op. 20 possesses a particularly haunting beauty in its slow movement, while simple but distinctive melodic and rhythmic ideas permeate the Six Preludes, Op. 23 and Five Short Pieces, Op. 4. The Theme and Variations, Op. 73, recorded here for the first time, offers a favourite Berkeley vehicle for conveying a highly individual and personal language. (Synopsis by Naxos)

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Sonatina (op. 39)
• Theme and Variations (op. 73)
• Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)

Performed by Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano)

Lennox Berkeley, Arthur Benjamin: Works for Piano

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Lyrita
Release date: July 2008
Catalogue no: REAM.2109

• Three lmpromptus (op. 7)
• Four Concert Studies (op. 14 part 1)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Scherzo (op. 32 part 2)
• Concert Study in Eb (op. 48 part 2)

Performed by Colin Horsley (piano)

Shura Cherkassky: Recital

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Release date: January 2007
Catalogue no: WHLIVE0014

Includes Preludes 5 and 6 from Six Preludes (op. 23), and Polka (op. 5 part 1a)

• Polka (op. 5 part 1a, Arrangement)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by Shura Cherkassky (piano)

Britten Resonances

Format: CD
Label: Diversions
Release date: July 2006
Catalogue no: 24118

• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by Anthony Goldstone (piano)

Lennox Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Naxos
Release date: June 2005
Catalogue no: 8.557324

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonatina (op. 17)
• Andantino (op. 21 part 2a, Arrangement of A Festival Anthem)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Concertino (op. 49)
• Duo (op. 81 part 1)
• Mazurka (op. 101 part 2)
• Three Pieces

Performed by the Schirmer Ensemble

Piano Works by Lennox and Michael Berkeley

Format: CD & Digital download
Label: Chandos Records
Release date: October 2004
Catalogue no: CHAN 10247

Two Berkeley recordings from Chandos Records were released in Autumn 2004. The first is a collection of piano music (together with Strange Meeting by Michael Berkeley) played by Margaret Fingerhut.

• Three Pieces (op. 2, Etude, Berceuse & Capriccio)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Three Mazurkas (op. 32 part 1, Hommage ­à Chopin)
• Scherzo (op. 32 part 2)
• Concert Study in Eb (op. 48 part 2)
• Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (op. 55 part 2)
• Paysage

Performed by Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

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

Lotusland British Piano Album

Format: CD
Label: Mittenwald
Release date: August 2002
Catalogue no: MTWD 99008

Lotusland is an eclectic collection of eleven important British composers of the early 20th Century. Amongst those included on this CD are composers such as Cyril Scott, John Ireland, Frederik Delius, Benjamin Britten and Lennox Berkeley.

The Lennox Berkeley pieces included here are nos. 1, 4 and 6 of the Six Preludes and nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the Five Short Pieces. The CD is available from Harold Moores Records, the Barbican branch of the Farringdon Records chain and Longplayer in Canterbury.

Kumiko Ida

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by Kumiko Ida (piano)

The Complete Solo Piano Works

Format: CD
Label: Paradisum
Release date: October 1998
Catalogue no: PDS-CD2

• Six Preludes (op. 23)

Performed by John Clegg (piano)

Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet

Format: CD
Label: British Music Society
Release date: January 1994
Catalogue no:  BMS 416 CD

'This is some of the finest British piano music of the century' - Peter Dickinson, Gramophone Magazine, 1994

'Terroni plays them exquisitely … neat fingerwork … acute ear for pianistic colour and a strong sense of rhythm.' - Roderick Swanston, Classic CD, Gramophone Magazine Critics’ Choice 1994

• Five Short Pieces (op. 4)
• Sonata for Piano (op. 20)
• Six Preludes (op. 23)
• Sonatina (op. 39)
• Theme and Variations (op. 73)
• Palm Court Waltz (op. 81 part 2a)

Performed by Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano)