I posted the Rodrigo concerto from this record a few weeks ago, and it's almost three years since i posted a piece by British composer Sir Lennox Berkeley (a short choral piece). Here we have a more substantial work - the Guitar Concerto of 1974 which was dedicated to and first performed by Julian Bream.
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was a cultivated and imaginative composer who after studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (after an introduction from Maurice Ravel) developed a neoclassical style that was to become, later, infused with serial techniques to expand his harmonic vocabulary.
The Guitar Concerto uses a small-ish orchestra - strings with two horns and single wind, and is in three movements. The notes on the album sleeve below give more information.
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