Lennox
Berkeley(1903-1989)
...these four early pieces (his first know works for
guitar)
were almost certainly written when he was studying in Paris in the
late 1920s, they nevertheless already display many Berkeley hallmarks:
an unmistakable understanding of the instrument, a natural melodic
flair, and the bitter-sweet harmony that must havebrought a smile
to the face of Maurice Ravel when he first encountered my father's
work at Oxford and advised him to make his way to Nadia Boulanger
to acquire a really sound tecnique.
(Michael Berkeley).