Lord Berners

Lord Berners (1883-1950) was an eccentric and idiosyncratic British peer and composer. His Valses Bourgeoises (1918) were the only Piano Duets he wrote, and were performed at the 1923 SalzburgFestival...

This volume reflects two aspects of Lord Berners' work. Firstly his solo piano pieces from the period of the First World War, and secondly the applied music for films, plays or ballets of his later ye...

Lord Berners' Fantasie Espagnole for Piano Duet.

Written for voice and piano.

A Wedding Bouquet was the idea of Lord Berners, who wanted Frederick Ashton to make a ballet pantomime out of one of Gertrude Stein's plays and who both wrote the music and designed the 'decor' and co...

Lord Berners' songs come from two periods. First, the years just after the First World War, when his music was in the vanguard of new developments, and secondly his later years, when he was more conce...

These three piano pieces, entitled respectively For a Statesman, For a Canary, For a Rich Aunt, are probably the best-known of all Berners' early works, though usually more through their reputation th...

Comic opera in one act based on the play by Prosper Merimee, for baritone, 2 basses, mezzo-soprano, 3 tenors and orchestra

Lord Berners (1883-1950) was one of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating personalities in British music. He became a pioneer in the avant-garde when he wrote his first music whilst living in Rome a...

Berners The Triumph of Neptune Suite arranged for Piano. Described as 'A pantomime in twelve scenes', this was composed in 1926 for Diaghilev's Russian Ballet. With a book by Sacheverell Sitwell and c...

A WEDDING BOUQUET is undoubtedly Berners' most original and successful work. Some might say unique, since choral ballets are rare indeed. It is based on the opening pages of Gertrude Stein's play, The...

A Wedding Bouquet was the idea of Lord Berners, who wanted Frederick Ashton to make a ballet pantomime out of one of Gertrude Stein's plays and who both wrote the music and designed the 'decor' and co...

Written for voice and piano.