The search for style; growing confidence; maturity; the piano; voices; religious music; grand opera; operas comical and biblical; new directions; final years. Appendix 1 - list of works; 2 - writings by Berkeley; 3 - selected writings about Berkeley.
Marvellously lucid book which fills a gap on the shelves devoted to
twentieth-century music.
*INDEPENDENT*
Breaks much new ground and is full of observations that force the
reader to think.
*MUSIC AND LETTERS*
A compelling portrait.
*CLASSICAL MUSIC*
Berkeley's character emerges through his music, through interviews
with family, colleagues and pupils (including son Michael, Julian
Bream and John Tavener) and through correspondence... Berkeley
emerges as one of the most significant musical figures of the
twentieth century.
*CLASSIC FM*
Anyone interested in Lennox Berkeley...would benefit by reading
this book.
*DELIUS SOCIETY*
The author is to be congratulated on yet another musical labour of
love.
*THIS ENGLAND*
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