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The Berkeley Edition, Vol. 6

CD UPC: 0095115140826

Release Date: March 2007
Originally recorded in 2006

Composer (b. 1948)
Michael Berkeley

Solo Trumpet trumpet
Philippe Schartz

Composer (1903-1989)
Sir Lennox Berkeley

Solo Piano piano
Kathryn Stott

Solo Piano piano
Howard Shelley

Composer
Michael Berkeley

Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor
Richard Hickox

Venue
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

Producer
Brian Couzens

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer (Assistant)
Michael Common

Genre:
Piano
Orchestral & Concertos

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Berkeley: The Berkeley Edition, Volume 6

MICHAEL BERKELEY

(b. 1948)

premiere recording

Concerto for Orchestra 'Seascapes'

24:18

to R.H.

1.

1

Con energia - Calmo - Energico

7:22

2.

2

Threnody for a Sad Trumpet. In Memoriam J.A. Quaver=80

9:00

3.

3

Con fuoco (with drive) - Calmo - Fuocoso - Maestoso

7:56

SIR LENNOX BERKELEY

(1903-1989)

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 30

28:42

4.

I

Molto moderato - Allegro - Lento

7:07

Theme and Variations

5.

Tema. Moderato -

1:31

6.

Variation I. Allegro ma non troppo -

0:58

7.

Variation II. L'istesso tempo -

0:58

8.

Variation III. Allegro -

1:52

9.

Variation IV. Adagio -

4:09

10.

Variation V. Vivace -

1:19

11.

Variation VI. Andante - Poco meno mosso -

2:24

12.

Variation VII. Tempo di valse - Un poco meno vivo -

1:39

13.

Variation VIII (Orchestra tacet). Allegro -

1:01

14.

Variation IX (Pianos tacet). Lento -

2:17

15.

Variation X (Orchestra tacet). Andante con moto -

1:06

16.

Variation XI. L'istesso tempo

2:17

MICHAEL BERKELEY

premiere recording

17.

Gregorian Variations

17:10

for Orchestra

Adagio - Un poco più mosso - Moderato -

70:15

Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor: Richard Hickox

6 and 7 January 2006

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Reviews

A fascinating programme, extremely well played and recorded.

The Sunday Times ‘CD of the Week’ on CHAN 9981 (Vo

The magnificently rewarding Berkeley Edition under Richard Hickox comes to an end with major works by both father and son.

Gramophone

Once again , though, the playing under Richard Hickox is all one could wish for. Michael Berkeley’s note referred to above identifies this as the planned sixth and last of these Berkeley albums. I hope not. This superbly conceived and executed series has been a landmark event: a model of its kind for British music.

International Record Review

Lennox Berkeley’s Concerto for Two Pianos of 1948 (the year of Michael’s birth, as it happens) is a two-movement work – a prelude followed by a set of enterprising variations in which Berkeley treats the two pianos as a single instrument. Kathryn Stott and Howard Shelley are the formidable exponents of this ‘super-piano’, while here and in the Michael Berkeley pieces Richard Hickox inspires incisive playing from the members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The recording from Swansea’s Brangwyn Hall, is among Chandos’s best.

BBC Music Magazine

Reviews from previous volumes:
‘This magnificent series devoted to the two Berkeleys’ continues… as in the previous three volumes there are revelations, with Richard Hickox as the ideal interpreter in every way.

Gramophone on CHAN 10167 (Volume 4)

But the highlight of the disc for me is Michael Berkeley’s Concerto for Orchestra: ‘Seascape’, written for the Proms in 2005, dedicated to conductor Richard Hickox, and darkly overshadowed by the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, when Berkeley heard the grim news that a friend was amongst the victims. The slow movement is a threnody for solo trumpet, while the outer movements have a desperate energy and vivid detail that submerges the listener in startling colours and conflicting emotions. Performance and recording are superb, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing as though their lives are at stake in this turbulent seascape. If the Berkeley Edition has to end here, at least it’s on a real high.

www.BBC.co.uk

…the festive and sparkling Two-Piano Concerto that he turned out in 1948, here played to perfection by Kathryn Stott, Howard Shelley, and the BBC Wales… This [Seascapes] is music of considerable eloquence and power. As in all the releases in the series, performances and sonics are nigh ideal.

American Record Guide

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