British Guitar Music (Britten; Berkeley; Whettam; Dowland; Maxwell Davies; Fripp)

British Guitar Music

John DOWLAND (1563-1626)

Preludium 

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Nocturnal after John Dowland 

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989)

Four Pieces for Guitar op. post.

Robert FRIPP (1946)

Moto Perpetuo 

Graham WHETTHAM (1927-2007)

Serenade for Cello and Guitar ww 45/5 (1981/2000) 

Guitar Partita

 

Peter MAXWELL DAVIES(1934-2016)

“Farewell to Stromness” (arr. T. Walker)

Alberto Mesirca (guitar)

Martin Rummel (cello)

Peter Dickinson - Lockdown Blues (works by Lambert, Barber, Berkeley, Poulenc, Gershwin and others)

Peter DIKINSON (1934-2023)

Lockdown Blues

Composers:

Peter Dickinson, Edward MacDowell, Constant Lambert, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber, Lennox Berkeley, George Gershwin, Erik Satie, Eugene Goossens, John Cage, Duke Ellington

Works:

Barber: (arr. Dickinson) Canzonetta Op. 48 (1977-8)

Berkeley: Andante Op.23/6 (1945)

Cage: In a Landscape (1948)

Dickinson: Blue Rose (1978); Freda’s Blues (2016); Lockdown Blues (2020)

Ellington: (arr. Dickinson) Twelve Melodies (1932-43)

Gershwin: Three-Quarter Blues (c1925); Who Cares? (1931)

Goossens: Lament for a Departed Doll Op.18/10 (1917)

Lambert: Elegiac Blues (1927)

MacDowell: To a Wild Rose Op.51/1 (1896)

Poulenc: Pastourelle IFP69 (1927); Bal fantôme IFP64/4 (c1934)

Satie: Trois Gymnopédies IES26 (1888); Trois Gnossiennes IES24 Nos.1-3 (1889-90)

Peter Dickinson (piano)

Recorded 16 and 17 April 2021 at Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk. UK 

Lennox Berkeley - Nelson (Opera in Three Acts)

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989) 

Nelson  

An Opera In Three Acts

Op.41 (1954)

Richard Angas (Bass) , 

Elizabeth Bainbridge (Mezzo-Soprano) , 

Brian Rayner Cook (Baritone) , 

Eiddwen Harrhy (Soprano) , 

David Johnston (Tenor) , 

Richard Jackson (Baritone) , 

Margaret Kingsley (Mezzo-Soprano) , 

Philip O'Reilly (Bass-Baritone) , 

Eric Shilling (Bass-Baritone) , 

Mary Thomas (Soprano)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Elgar Howarth

Lennox Berkeley - Chamber Works

 

Sir Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989)

Pièce for flute clarinet and bassoon (1929)

Sextet for clarinet, horn and string quartet, Op. 47 (1955)

In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky: Canon for String Quartet (1971)

Introduction and Allegro for double bass and piano (1971)

String Trio, Op. 19 (1943)

Three Pieces for solo viola (1971) 

Sonatine for clarinet and piano (1928) 

Berkeley Ensemble 

(Sophie Mather (violin); Dan Shilladay (viola); Gemma Wareham (cello); Lachlan Radford (double bass); John Slack (clarinet); Andrew Watson (bassoon); Paul Cott (horn)); John Loucks (violin); Sarah Bennington (flute); Libby Burgess (piano)

rec. 2014, St. John the Evangelist, Oxford, UK.

British Divertimentos & Sinfoniettas

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)
Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra "Sellinger’s Round" (1953) 

Alan RAWSTHORNE (1905-1971)
Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra (1961-62)

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)
Sinfonietta Op.1 (1932) 

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1976)
Sinfonietta Op.34 (1950) 

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)
Sinfonietta No.1 Op.48 * (1955)

English Chamber Orchestra/Norman Del Mar
* London Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite
rec. March 1977, Kingsway Hall (Tippett, Rawsthorne, Britten, Berkeley);
6 September 1978, Watford Town Hall (Arnold). ADD

English Guitar Concertos - Walton, Arnold and Berkeley

ENGLISH GUITAR CONCERTOS

Sir William WALTON
Five Bagatelles for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (adapted by Patrick Russ)

Sir Malcolm ARNOLD
Serenade for guitar and Strings, Op.50

Sir Lennox BERKELEY
Guitar Concerto, Op.88

Sir Malcolm ARNOLD
Guitar Concerto, Op.67

Craig Ogden – Guitar
Northern Sinfonia  / Richard Hickox

Lennox Berkeley - String Quartets 1-3

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

String Quartets Nos. 1-3

Maggini Quartet

Lennox Berkeley - Chamber Music

Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989)

Chamber Music:

Horn Trio / Flute Sonatina / Viola Sonata / Piano Quintet 

New London Chamber Ensemble

Lennox Berkeley - A Centenary Tribute

Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
A Centenary Tribute
The Nash Ensemble

Lennox Berkeley - Symphony No.3, Divertimento, Partita, Canzonetta /Lennox Berkeley

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989)

Berkeley Conducts Berkeley

Mont Juic, Op. 9 (with Britten, 1937) [11’04]. Serenade for Strings, Op. 12 (1939) [13’19]. Divertimento in B flat, Op. 18 (1943) [18’46]. Partita, Op. 66 (1964-54) [12’38]. Sinfonia concertante, Op. 84 – Canzonettaa(1973) [2’58]. Symphony No. 3, Op. 74 (1969) [15’17]

aRoger Winfield (oboe).

London Philharmonic Orchestra/
Lennox Berkeley

Lennox Berkeley - A Dinner Engagement Op.45

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

                     

premiere recording    

A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45     59:31

           An Opera in Two Scenes    

         Libretto by Paul Dehn

Lennox Berkeley - Works for Piano and Chamber Ensamble

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989)

Works for Piano and Chamber Ensamble

Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Op. 17

5 Short Pieces for Piano, Op. 4

Andantino for Cello and Piano, Op. 21, No. 2a

3 Pieces for Solo Clarinet

Mazurka for Piano, Op. 101, No. 2

Duo for Cello and Piano, Op. 81, No. 1

6 Preludes for Piano, Op. 23

Concertino for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 49

Schirmer Ensemble