Lennox Berkeley's I Carry Your Heart With Me for medium Voice and Piano.'Sometime in 1970 I gave Lennox Berkeley a volume of poems by the American poet E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) since mysister Meriel Dickinson and I were commissioning him towrite a song-cycle for a whole programme of settings of Cummings. At the time he became involved with Chinese poetry and we were delighted with the Chinese Songs Op. 78.However a year or so later in July 1972 Berkeley did set a poem by Cummings. This was ‘i carry your heart with me’ from 95 Poems (1958) and he dedicated the song to the countertenorTay Cheng Jim.The manuscript leavesfew questions. Obviously the pedal sustains the sextuplet and triplet groups at the start and finish. It is possible that all the As in bar 32 of the left hand piano part should be flat although there are clashes like thiselsewhere. A few phrase-marks have been added on existing patterns.' - Peter Dickinson

Trio For Flute Oboe And Piano by Lennox Berkeley: Prelude Allegro moderato Moderato Fugue. To the Sylvan Trio

For Solo Voice and Piano.There are various versions of this anonymous ballad that has its own traditionalmelody. Berkeley provided a folk-like setting in this song for Sophie Wyss (1897-1983) the Swiss sopranoliving in England who gave important premieres of Britten.Wyss and Berkeley gave the first performance in a BBC broadcast on 13 July 1947.He had already dedicated ‘Tant que mes yeux’ Op. 14 No.2/6 to her and withhimshe gave the first performance of that song as well as ‘Ode du premier jour de mai’ Op. 14 No.2/7 at the Fyvie Hall London on 20 February 1945. Those two songswere published performed and recorded but ‘The LowLands of Holland’ has beenneglected. It comes as close as Berkeley ever got to the English folk song tradition.This edition is based on the copyist’s score at the British Library and includes thecorrections thecomposer provided with it.

Work for piano commissioned by and dedicated to Colin Horsley for his 1950 tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Version for 2 Pianos with second Piano playing orchestral reduction. Premiered at Royal Albert Hall in 1948.

2 Piano Version-This item includes two copies of the arrangement for two pianos; the orchestral reduction is played by the second piano. November 2012: now includes a previously-unpublished cadenza and revisions by the composer.

This is piano solo version of the unopused work Polka. Arrangement from the original for two pianos.

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