{"title":"Lennox Berkeley","description":"\u003cp\u003e1903–1989. British composer. in the British Neo-Romanticism tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBritish composer associated with 20th-century English music; studied with Nadia Boulanger; known for refined, lyrical style blending French influences with English sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSignature works:\u003c\/em\u003e Serenade for Strings, Op. 12, Symphony No. 1, Stabat Mater, Op. 28, Divertimento in B-flat major, Op. 18, Horn Trio, Op. 44.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ravel-berkeley-pounds-orchestral-works-wilson","title":"Ravel, Berkeley \u0026 Pounds: Orchestral Works \/ Wilson, Sinfonia of London","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe three composers whose works appear on this album are interconnected: Ravel was a mentor to Lennox Berkeley, and Berkeley to Pounds. Le Tombeau de Couperin marks Ravel’s movement towards neoclassicism, its forms and style a re-invention of ones from the French baroque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally written for solo piano, the movements of the suite were dedicated to friends whom Ravel had lost in the First World War. In 1919, he orchestrated four of the six movements (the version performed here). Berkeley met Ravel a number of times in the 1920s, working as an interpreter and tour-guide whilst Ravel was in London. Ravel advised him to study with Nadia Boulanger, which he did, between 1926 and 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned by Sir Arthur Bliss for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1942, the Divertimento initially received a mixed reception, but has since found many supporters (including Pounds). The critic Peter Dickinson felt it showed an ‘instinctive and unimpassioned creativeness associated with the French aesthetic, but by no means restricted to it’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdam Pounds studied privately with Berkeley in London during the late 1970s, and in his own music has perpetuated the firm commitment of the two earlier composers to clarity and accessibility in everything they wrote. His Third Symphony was written in 2021 and is a response to the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pounds states that the piece captures the ‘sadness, humor, determination, and defiance’ which everyone faced at this time – not least musicians. Scored for relatively modest orchestral forces, the work is dedicated to Sinfonia of London and John Wilson who here give the work its world première recording.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chandos","offers":[{"title":"SACD","offer_id":46012574859498,"sku":"095115532423","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4289988-3147722.jpg?v=1778236759"},{"product_id":"berkeley-brahms-leshnoff-horn-trios","title":"Berkeley, Brahms \u0026 Leshnoff: Horn Trios \/ Cooper, Kerr, Weiss","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe viability of the horn trio was definitively established by Brahms in 1865. He had learned the natural horn as a child and infused his Trio with a range of moods, including a deeply felt slow movement in honor of his mother who had died earlier in the year and a carefree finale which explores the horn’s hunting legacy. Inspired by this precedent, Lennox Berkeley’s Trio is lively and characterful with a sequence of ingenious and playful variations. GRAMMY-nominated Jonathan Leshnoff is one of America’s leading contemporary composers and his 2016 Trio moves from darkness to light, and is full of pointed syncopations, before arriving at a joyous conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012685091050,"sku":"747313913770","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4160936-2935145.jpg?v=1778206928"}],"url":"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/collections\/lennox-berkeley.oembed","provider":"ArkivMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}