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Notes
Berkeley’s first opera, Nelson, was put on at Sadler’s Wells in 1954. The others were performed by the English Opera Group which had been founded by the young Benjamin Britten, Joan Cross, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears in 1946. In the same year as the Nelson premiere Berkeley’s first one-acter, A Dinner Engagement, featured at Aldeburgh. Aldeburgh was also the scene of Ruth in 1956 and Castaway in 1967. Each work inhabits its own world, and each finds Berkeley’s musical imagination delivering new sounds to match the drama.
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Reviews
**** Excellent Album
Pierre Flinois – Classica (France) – April 2022
“… Each of the three one-acters creates its own world, very effectively …. A Dinner Engagement and Castaway have well-shaped librettos by Paul Dehn; Ruth has a capable one by Eric Crozier … The performances are generally solid and communicative … The sound on all three is good monaural … The most vivid of the three performances is Castaway, perhaps in part because it was made at a staged (?) performance… Castaway is a recorded premiere… I was pleased to encounter all three operas. Berkely seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed loveable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors…”
Ralph Locke – American Record Guide – March/April 2022
“Archive broadcasts of three contrasting one-act operas that show Lennox Berkeley’s variety and sensitivity.”
Jonathan Woolf – MusicWeb-International.com – 3 February 2022
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