The poem I Sing of a Maiden is one of the best known of the anonymous medieval hymns, deceptive in its simplicity and full of grace and faith. The setting by Lennox Berkeley also has a deceptive simplicity but reveals, on repeated listenings or performances, a harmonic integrity and subtlely that has made it a work that will continue to be performed and enjoyed for a long time to come.Lennox Berkeley was a fascinating character, the first (illegitimate) son of an earl who went on to have two mo...

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