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1. MS Mus. 1801/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Opera and Ballet Works
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1938-1967]
Extent:

24 files

2. MS Mus. 1801/2/11-14

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/11-14
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Ruth (opera in three scenes), Op. 50
Scope & Content:
Libretto (incomplete), sketches and drafts, and annotated dyeline copies of autograph vocal score and full score. First performance: London, Scala Theatre, 2 October 1956. English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra, cond. Charles Mackerras.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-1960
Extent:

4 files

3. MS Mus. 1801/2/19-24

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/19-24
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Faldon Park (unfinished opera), Op. 100
Scope & Content:
Opera in two Acts, unfinished at the time of Berkeley's death (1989), with libretto by Winton Dean.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1979-1983
Extent:

6 files

4. MS Mus. 1801/2/2-7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/2-7
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Op. 41
Scope & Content:
Vocal scores and autograph full score (dated 1954). Libretto: Alan Pryce-Jones. First performance (concert reading): London, Wigmore Hall, 14 February 1953. English Opera Group Association, introduced by the librettist and directed by the composer. Piano, Robert Keys. First staged performance:...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:

6 files

5. MS Mus. 1801/2/8-10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/8-10
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement (opera in one act), Op. 45
Scope & Content:
Sketches and draft material, vocal score, full score and libretto. First performance: Aldeburgh, Jubilee Hall, 17 June 1954. The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra, cond. Vilem Tausky. First London performance: Sadler's Wells Theatre, 7 October 1954.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953-1954
Extent:

3 files

6. MS Mus. 1801/2/15-18

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/15-18
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway (opera in one act), Op. 68
Scope & Content:
Draft material, vocal score and full score, and annotated dyeline copies. Libretto: Paul Dehn. First performance: Aldeburgh, Jubilee Hall, 3 June 1967. English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra, cond. Meredith Davies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1967
Extent:

4 files

7. MS Mus. 1801/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/2
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Act I (vocal score)
Scope & Content:
Bound autograph piano and vocal score (Act I only), in blue ink, pp. 1-82. Signed on p. 1. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 2 (whole page), 5-6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17-19, 22-26, 28, 30, 32, 53, 59, 62-64.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]
Extent:

64 folios

8. MS Mus. 1801/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/6
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Act II (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:
Bound autograph full score (undated) for Act II. In blue ink (and pencil), pp. 1-90 (Scene 1) and pp. 1-59 (Scene 2) which includes a second and revised p. 49 in black ink. Volume stamped: 'Chester Library'. Includes pasted-down corrections to the score as follows: Scene 1, ff. 2-3, 18, 23, 25,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]
Extent:

i, 99 folios

9. MS Mus. 1801/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/7
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Act III (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:
Bound autograph full score (undated) for Act III. In blue ink (and pencil and red pencil), pp. 1-154. Volume stamped: 'J. & W. Chester Ltd'. Dated at the end of the work: 'Full score finished 31.VII.54'. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 4, 6, 8, 14-15, 21, 23-28, 30-33, 36, 38, 44-47, 58, 61-6...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:

i, 116 folios

10. MS Mus. 1801/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/2/4
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Acts I and II (dyeline copy)
Scope & Content:
Dyeline copy of manuscript vocal score (copyist's hand), Acts I and II only. Chester Library copy (bound, brown paper covers), 105 ff. (pp. 1-210. Occasional markings in blue ink, with the name of 'Frederick Sharp' in pencil on f. 1.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]
Extent:

105 folios