Lennox Berkeley - Music for Solo Piano & Piano Duet - British Music Society: BMS416CD - CD

A delightful collection of works that deserve to be much better known. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 15th Feb 2010
Catalogue No: BMS416CD
Label: British Music Society
Length: 57 minutes

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Excerpt, Berkeley, L: Six Preludes for Piano, Op. 23

Work length6:34

Raphael Terroni (piano)

No. 1. Allegro

Track length1:45

No. 2. Andante

Track length1:31

No. 3. Allegro Moderato

Track length1:33

No. 4. Allegretto

Track length1:45

Berkeley, L: Five Short Pieces for Piano, Op. 4

Work length1:39

Raphael Terroni (piano)

No. 5. Allegro

Track length1:39

6 Preludes, Op. 23

Work length1:53

No. 6. Andante

Track length1:53

Berkeley, L: Sonata for Piano, Op. 20

Work length22:43

Raphael Terroni (piano)

I. Moderato

Track length8:17

II. Presto

Track length1:56

III. Adagio

Track length5:36

IV. Introduction and Allegro

Track length6:54

5 Short Pieces, Op. 4

Work length5:55

No. 1. Andante

Track length0:54

No. 2. Allegro Moderato

Track length0:51

No. 3. Moderato

Track length1:38

No. 4. Andante

Track length1:38

No. 5. Allegro

Track length0:54

Berkeley, L: Sonatina for Piano 4 hands, Op. 39

Work length8:01

Raphael Terroni (piano), Norman Beedie (piano)

I. Allegro Moderato

Track length2:59

II. Andante

Track length2:28

III. Allegro

Track length2:34

Berkeley, L: Theme and Variations for four hands, Op. 73

Work length7:55

Raphael Terroni (piano), Norman Beedie (piano)

Berkeley, L: Palm Court Waltz for piano duet Op. 81 No. 2

Work length3:19

Raphael Terroni (piano), Norman Beedie (piano)

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Piano was Sir Lennox Berkeley’s own instrument, for which he left a generous legacy of sensitively constructed works for soloists, chamber musicians and accompanists. Berkeley’s earliest works for keyboard were composed at school and later at Merton College, Oxford. He admired Chopin and Mozart from his earliest days, and heard the Beethoven sonatas on pianola rolls as a child. After college, Berkeley spent seven years in Paris, where he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger. She disciplined his natural ear for melody and harmony through a rigorous study of counterpoint.

“I have always especially loved my father’s piano music, because his approach is so pianistic and shows a deep love and understanding of the instruments. It also invariably mirrors his character in its charm and wit, and in its bittersweet nostalgia. One of my abiding images of my father is of him working his way through the Chopin piano music; this is reflected in the technical demands that he himself mischievously engineers. Another passion was Mozart, as I think one might deduce from the phrasing and melodic construction; while, harmonically, the influence of France - Debussy , Ravel and in particular Poulenc - has been absorbed into a highly individual personal language. For me, my father’s piano literature represents in microcosm his compositional talents at their very best.”

Michael Berkeley 1993

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August 2010

A delightful collection of works that deserve to be much better known.

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