Lennox Berkeley

Three Motets for SSATB Choir. Commissioned bt the North Wales Music Festival and premiered by St John's College Cambridge under George Guest in 1972.

For unaccompanied chorus SSAATTBB. Text: Edmund Spenser.The Hill Of The Graces was commissioned by the BBC and was first performed on 20th October 1975 as part of a concert given by the BBC singers to mark the 50thanniversary of their first unaccompanied recital.

A mixed voice setting of the satirical poem by Sagittarius set in London during a blackout in World War II.

A Vulgate setting of Psalm 23 for SATB chorus and orchestra. This edition contains a piano reduction of the orchestral score.

For SSATB Choir. Commissioned for the celebration of the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the birth of Saint Benedict. Premiere by Westminster Cathedral Choir under the direction of Stephen Cleobury.

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 deceptivesimplicity but reveals on repeated listenings or performances a harmonic integrity and subtlely that has made it a work that will continue to be performed and enjoyed for a long time to come. Lennox Berkeley wascomposing and having his works performed before he finished school then upon meeting Ravel was introduced to legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris with whom he studied. He mixed with the great artistic and musicalnames of prewar Paris before returning to Britain where he later met and lived with Benjamin Britten before the arrival of Peter Pears in Britten’s life. Berkeley was professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Musicand himself composed more than two hundred works of music many of them of enduring value.

For Solo Soprano and Tenor SATB Choir and Organ. Commissioned by St Matthew's Church Northampton. Text: Sequence- Jerusalem et Sion Filiae George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.

Opera in one act four scenes. Solo voices: 3 Sopranos Mezzo-Soprano 2 Baritones Bass. With SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Libretto: Paul Dehn. This Opera was designed as a companion piece to A Dinner Engagement.

Work SATB Chorus and Orchestra commissioned by the City Arts Trust for the opening concert of the 1968 Festival of the City of London.

For SATB Chorus this work was written to celebrate the 14th centenary of the death of St Columba. Text: attributed to St Columba translated by Rev. Duncan MacGregor.