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CDLennox Berekeley : complete music for violin and piano, and solo violin / Lennox Berkeley, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey, Edward Paling
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Lennox Berkeley music for Violin and Piano and solo Violin
Sir Lennox Berkeley was one of the most accomplished, creative and respected British composers of the twentieth century. His prolific output of works covers all genres of musical composition including opera, music for the theatre and cinema, symphonic music, chamber music, piano music and a vast amount of choral music.
He admired the music of Mozart, Chopin, Ravel and the
neo-classical Stravinsky; formed close friendships with Benjamin
Britten, Ravel and Poulenc; mixed with W.H. Auden, Diaghilev,
Cocteau, Segovia and Les six; and taught a generation of British
composers including David Bedford, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett,
Brian Ferneyhough, Professor Peter Dickinson and Sir John
Tavener.
Born into an aristocratic family, Berkeley studied French, Old
French and Philology at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a
BA in 1926. That same year he met Ravel, who - upon seeing some
of Berkeley's scores - advised him to study with Nadia Boulanger
in Paris. Berkeley moved to Paris, and was based there until
1932. Largely self-taught prior to then, Berkeley flourished
under Boulanger's rigorous tutelage.
During World War II Berkeley worked on orchestral programs at the BBC in London, and then from 1946 to 1968 he was professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Berkeley was given honorary status at a number of universities and professional bodies during the 1970s and 80s, and was the recipient of many honours, including a knighthood in 1974.
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