The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individua...(+)
The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give aconcise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer.This edition focuses on the life and works of the English composer Lennox Berkeley.With notes by Michael Berkeley and PeterDickinson.Writing in the European Piano Teachers Association Journal Angela Fogg calls Composer Portraits 'a well thought-out and well presented series of books offering fantastic repertoire for studentsin the later grades. I cannot recommend them enough!'
Score and Parts. Commandée par Colin Horsley. Créé dans le Victoria and Alber...(+)
Score and Parts. Commandée par Colin Horsley. Créé dans le Victoria and Albert Museum en Manoung Parikian, Dennis Brain et Colin Horsley, Mars 1954. / Scores
This was composed in 1962. The first movement is classically structured with a...(+)
This was composed in 1962. The first movement is classically structured with a gracefully contoured first subject a forceful ensuing idea and a murmurously lyrical second subject; the secondmovement generates an intensity of feeling which is the greater for the very restraint of its language; and the finale effectively introduces calm moments to offset the prevailing syncopated ebullience.
For Tenor Soloist SATB Chorus Organ and String Orchestra. Commissioned by the ...(+)
For Tenor Soloist SATB Chorus Organ and String Orchestra. Commissioned by the English Opera Group for the 5th Aldeburgh Festival. Premiered by Peter Pears. Please note that other than the chorus parts there are only a fewinstrumental cues.Vocal Score with Piano Reduction available: CH61749
Written for soprano solo recorder viola da gamba and harpsichord.This little c...(+)
Written for soprano solo recorder viola da gamba and harpsichord.This little cantata was commissioned by Carl Dolmetsch and first performed by Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) Jeanne Dolmetsch (sopranino recorder) Marguerite Dolmetsch (viola da gamba) and Joseph Saxby (harpsichord) at the Wigmore Hall on 22 March 1979.
Suite For The Harpsichord is a work by Lennox Berkeley written whilst he was b...(+)
Suite For The Harpsichord is a work by Lennox Berkeley written whilst he was based in Paris and studying under Nadia Boulanger. The suite is a wonderful example of a work for Harpsichord writtenat the time of major revival for the instrument as well as the new style of composition Berkeley was discovering. The work is edited by Christopher D. Lewis and lasts around 14 minutes.
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