Berkeley, Lennox & Michael-Symphony No 1; Serenade; Horn Concerto; Coronach

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LENNOX & MICHAEL BERKELEY
Berkeley, Lennox & Michael-Symphony No 1; Serenade; Horn Concerto; Coronach
David Pyatt, horn, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox

[ Chandos Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 22 August 2002

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"Lennox Berkeley and his son Michael represent two of the brightest stars in 20th-Century British music and Chandos has found excellent advocates for their compositions in Richard Hickox and the BBC National orchestra of Wales."
***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Sept 2002)

'A delightful issue.'
The Times

'A fascinating programme, extremely well-played and recorded.'
The Sunday Times CD of the Week

'This is another triumph for Chandos' Brian and Ralph Couzens'
Fanfare

'This is one of many revelatory recordings of both Composers under Richard Hickox and the excellent news is, there's more to follow.'
Gramophone Magazine's Critic's Choice (2003)

Richard Hickox is one of Britain's leading conductors, recipient of the 1995 Philharmonic Society Music Award, three Gramophone Awards, the Diapason d'Or, the Deutsche Schalplattenpreis and a Grammy (for Britten's Peter Grimes). He is founder and Music Director of the City of London Sinfonia and (with Simon Standage) of Collegium Musicum 90, Associate Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of the Northern Sinfonia.

Operatic engagements have included Los Angeles Opera, Rome Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opera North and English National Opera. He has guest conducted in Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Tokyo (New Japan Philharmonic), and the radio orchestras of Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris (Orchestre philharmonique), the Berlin Symphony, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, and the Camerata Academica Salzburg at the Vienna Easter Festival.

Richard Hickox records exclusively for Chandos, for whom he celebrated his one hundredth recording in 1997. Future plans include works by Grainger, Rubbra, Bruch, Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Delius and Schmidt.

Tracks:

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Symphony No. 1 28:27
for Orchestra
1 I Allegro moderato - Meno mosso 9:25
2 II Allegretto 4:37
3 III Lento 8:19
4 IV Allegro - Un poco più vivo 6:04

Michael Berkeley (b. 1948)
premiere recording
Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra 20:52
Revised version, 1994
5 I Free and dreamy, as though improvised - Malizioso. 9:40
6 II Con malincolia 11:11

Lennox Berkeley
Serenade 12:48
in Four Movements
7 I Vivace 2:03
8 II Andantino 4:12
9 III Allegro moderato 3:17
10 IV Lento 3:14

Michael Berkeley
11 Coronach 10:18
for Strings