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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Dundonnell on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 02:37

Title: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: Dundonnell on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 02:37
Chandos(remember them ;D They used to release a lot of new British music :))) will be filling a gap in the cd repertoire with the Berkeley Flute Concerto at the end of March :)

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Chandos/CHAN10718 (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Chandos/CHAN10718)
Title: Re: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: albion on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 07:53
Quote from: Dundonnell on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 02:37Chandos(remember them ...

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British Flute Concertos by Alwyn, Berkeley, Dove and Poulenc - I think they've obviously been taking lessons in inclusivity from the British Music catalogue.

;)
Title: Re: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: Dundonnell on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:25
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: JimL on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 17:38
Quote from: Albion on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 07:53
Quote from: Dundonnell on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 02:37Chandos(remember them ...

Vaguely ...

::)

British Flute Concertos by Alwyn, Berkeley, Dove and Poulenc - I think they've obviously been taking lessons in inclusivity from the British Music catalogue.

;)
I'm still trying to figure out how Poulenc could compose a British flute concerto, since everything else he composed was French! ;)
Title: Re: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: TerraEpon on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 18:57
Without looking I'd make a large wager that it's Poulenc's Flute Sonata arranged by a Brit, considering he didn't actually write a concerto for it....


....yup. http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Chandos/CHAN10718
In fact.....it was one Lennox Berkeley, who seems to be what this thread is about. Imagine that :D
Title: Re: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: petershott@btinternet.com on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 19:51
By coincidence I've been reading through, and almost finished, Tony Scotland's biographical work 'Lennox and Freda'. Almost 600 pages of pure pleasure......and vastly interesting. Nadia Boulanger, Ravel, Poulenc, Paris in the 1920s, Britten, Pears, post war music in London.....they all come flying off the page. (And, what is more, the chapters dealing with Paris are written in English!)
Title: Re: Lennox Berkeley's Flute Concerto
Post by: JimL on Wednesday 29 February 2012, 21:13
So, it's Poulenc's Sonata arranged by Berkeley?  That's not the same as Berkeley's own Flute Concerto is it?