Lennox Berkeley is often the designated twentieth century composer on collections of choral music by English cathedral choirs, but his songs are a good deal less well known. There are no fewer than five recording premieres here, and any one of them could supply worthwhile material to a singer's repertoire. The disc surveys Berkeley's entire song-composing career, beginning with student works in French written before and during his stint studying in Paris with the pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. (Berkeley was of partly French ...
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Lennox Berkeley is often the designated twentieth century composer on collections of choral music by English cathedral choirs, but his songs are a good deal less well known. There are no fewer than five recording premieres here, and any one of them could supply worthwhile material to a singer's repertoire. The disc surveys Berkeley's entire song-composing career, beginning with student works in French written before and during his stint studying in Paris with the pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. (Berkeley was of partly French background, spoke the language fluently, and continued to write songs in French after this period.) The program runs forward chronologically to one of Berkeley's last works, the French-language Sonnet, Op. 102, of 1982, written when Berkeley was 79 and dedicated to the 106-year-old singer Hugues Cuénod. Annotator Tony Scotland finds signs of Berkeley's encroaching Alzheimer's disease in this little song, but it's certainly very moving and may well be of interest to researchers studying...
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