Lennox Berkeley: The Complete Piano Works - Douglas Stevens

Lennox Berkeley: The Complete Piano Works - Douglas Stevens

HS1806-18 (Hoxa Recordings, CD, 2 discs)

DDD
NEW RELEASE (28 August 2020)

Playing time: 59'19"/53'32" - TT 112'51"
Tracks: 20 + 27
Booklet pages: 12
© 2018 Hoxa
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Country of manufacture: European Union
Reviewer: Patrick Maxwell
Review of Lennox Berkeley: The Complete Piano Works - Douglas Stevens published on 9 November 2020


Listen: Lennox Berkeley: II (Four Concert Studies) (CD2 track 13, 0:00-0:57)

Douglas Stevens, piano (Steinway Model B)

Lennox Berkeley:

CD1

1 March (1924)

2 For Vere (1927)

3 Mr Pilkington's Toye (1926)

Six Preludes (1945) Op 23
4 Allegro
5 Andante
6 Allegro moderato
7 Allegretto
8 Allegro
9 Andante

Sonata for Piano (1945) Op 20
10 Moderato
11 Presto
12 Adagio
13 Allegro

14 Concert Study in E flat (1955), Op 48 No 2

Three Pieces (1935) Op 2
15 Etude
16 Berceuse
17 Capriccio

Prelude and Capriccio (1978) Op 95
18 Prelude
19 Capriccio

20 Toccata (1925)

CD2

Three Impromptus (1935) Op 7
1 Moderato
2 Andantino
3 Allegro

Piano Pieces (1927)
4 I
5 II
6 III

Five Short Pieces (1936) Op 4
7 I
8 II
9 III
10 IV
11 V

Four Concert Studies (1940) Op 24 No 1
12 I
13 II
14 III
15 IV

Four Piano Studies (1972) Op 82
16 I
17 II
18 III
19 IV

20 Paysage (1944)

Three Mazurkas (Hommage à Chopin) (1949) Op 32 No 1
21 I
22 II
23 III

24 Scherzo (1949) Op 37 No 2

25 Mazurka (1982) Op 101 No 2

26 Improvisation on a Theme of Manuel de Falla (1960) Op 55 No 2

27 Polka (1934) Op 5 No 1 (a)

Recorded 28 August 2017, 18 February and 26 March 2018 in Bowerman Hall, Monkton Combe School, Monkton Combe, Somerset, UK