Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for Guitar (Score video)
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Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 1903 - 26 December 1989) was an English composer.
Berkeley's earlier music is broadly tonal, influenced by the neoclassical music of Stravinsky. Berkeley's contact and friendship with composers such as Ravel and Poulenc and his studies in Paris with Boulanger lend his music a 'French' quality, demonstrated by its "emphasis on melody, the lucid textures and a conciseness of expression". He maintained a negative view of atonal music at least up until 1948, when he wrote:
I have never been able to derive much satisfaction from atonal music. The absence of key makes modulation an impossibility, and this, to my mind, causes monotony [...] I am not, of course, in favour of rigidly adhering to the old key-system, but some sort of tonal centre seems to me a necessity.
However, from the mid-1950s, Berkeley apparently felt a need to revise his style of composition, later telling the Canadian composer, R. Murray Schafer that "it's natural for a composer to feel a need to enlarge his idiom."
He started including tone rows and aspects of serial technique in his compositions around the time of the Concertino, op. 49 (1955) and the opera Ruth (1955-6). His shift in opinion was demonstrated in an interview with The Times in 1959:
I'm not opposed to serial music; I've benefited from studying it, and I have sometimes found myself writing serial themes - although I don't elaborate on them according to strict serial principles, because I'm quite definitely a tonal composer. And there are some exceptions to the gospel of intellectualisation - I enjoyed listening to the record of Boulez's Le marteau sans maître very much, because there the timbres of the music were attractive in themselves.
Laura Snowden, guitar
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I loved this Sonatina, it brings to mind Manuel Ponce compositions.
Excellent performance; great dynamic range and expression. The extended tonality harmonic language reminds me of Britten, the Sea Interludes and the Nocturnal. (Cf remark below about Ponce - I agree too).
Nicely done.
Que hermosa esta pieza
Is this Laura Snowden playing the piece? Whoever it is has done one first-class job. It really hits me where I live and lets me wind down only to be thrown back in my chair. Very well played and thank you for the score to follow and look at playing for while I can't sight-read it at tempo I can get through it at about half tempo and it's a great piece of which I was not aware. Thank you.
I learned the 1st movement of this piece, which I really like, but I gave up on the rest of it. Not because it's too hard, but because the composition is not worth the squeeze. Especially the 3rd movement, which is way too much influenced by Villa-Lobos for my taste; whose whole shtick was just picking a funky guitar chord/shape and then just shifting it up and down the neck for tonal variety. Overall the Sonatina is 2nd rate compered to what Brouwer wrote for the guitar.
@alexkije
Жыл бұрын
I like your comments.
que tipo más bueno :O que composición, que lindo descubrimiento =) thanks BC
schön kennenzulernen
Lovely..
If you like the timber richness of Boulez's music, you should love Webern's music. :-)
@BCscores
6 жыл бұрын
I love both. :)
Vaya la primer parte de esta sonata me suena mucho a la nueva sonatina para guitarra y decacorde de Nikita Koshkin.
Hi, I am learning this piece but the sheet I got looks very bad, where did you get this one? Thank you!!!
@AcousticLibrary
5 жыл бұрын
Christian Leguer get the one edited by Julian bream
@MrDizzyvonclutch
5 жыл бұрын
@@AcousticLibrary who's performing this? It's a really great performance!
@AcousticLibrary
5 жыл бұрын
MrDizzyvonclutch Laura Snowden
@MrDizzyvonclutch
5 жыл бұрын
Yes I just seen that downward arrow and read the description I'm new to the phone in the Chromecast thing I've been watching Lord Snowdon's liv version quite a bit the last week, and it does sound a little bit like it but this sounds slightly better I guess maybe this is a studio performance like a CD or something?