Lennox Berkeley

Premiered by the Dartington String Quartet. Score available: SOS00899

Work from 1929 for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon.

Set to the text of Pierre de Ronsard, this set of songs for Two Tenors and Piano was commissioned by Peter Pears in 1952.

Work first performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1943.

Orchestral work premiered at the Wigmore Hall by The London Chamber Orchestra in 1950.

Premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall under the baton of the composer, July 1943.

Premiered at the Royal Albert Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Adrian Boult in August 1946.

Work for Orchestra dating from 1965.

Commissioned and premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall under the baton of Sir Charles Groves, May 1978.

Work for Orchestra commissioned by the 1973 Three Choirs Festival. Premiered by the CBSO under the baton of the composer.

Premiered by Annie Ault and Gerald Stofsky.

Libretto for the Opera in Three Acts. Libretto by Alan Pryce-Jones.

Paul Dehn's libretto for the one act opera.

Written for high voice and piano. Poem by Robert Graves.

The poem I Sing of a Maiden is one of the best known of the anonymous medieval hymns, deceptive in its simplicity and full of grace and faith. The setting by Lennox Berkeley also has a deceptive simpl...

Written for the Merchant Taylors Company. Scored for SATB Choir.

Work for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello. Parts available: CH56341. This quartet was commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and written in the autumn of 1967. It is dedicated to Lady Norton...

Work for Piano premiered by Martin Jones in 1978.