Benjamin Britten - Songs Cycles

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: The Salley Gardens (also unison vv and piano)

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Sweet Polly Oliver

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: O waly waly

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Lord, I married me a wife

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: She's like a swallow

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: Bonny at morn

Folk Song Arrangements, Movement: I was lonely and forlorn

(3) Early Songs

Tit for Tat

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake

Benjamin Luxon (Baritone)

David Willison (Piano)

Recorded in the Maltings, Snape on April 12 & 13, 1986

William Alwyn - Mirages, Divertimento, Naiades, Fantasy Waltzes & Sonata alla toccata

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

CD 1

Mirages, A Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano (1970) [27:10]

Divertimento for Solo Flute (1939) [13:35]

Naiades, Fantasy-Sonata for Flute and Harp (1971) [12:53]

CD 2

Fantasy-Waltzes (1956) [33:25]*†

Sonata alla Toccata (1937) [11:38]*†

Benjamin Luxon (baritone); David Willison (piano); Christopher Hyde-Smith (flute); Marisa Robles (harp); * Sheila Randell (piano)

rec. ADD † mono recordings, 1959, 1971

Frederick Delius - A Mass of Life; Songs of Sunset; An Arabesque

Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934)

Songs of Sunset*

An Arabesque+

*Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

*+John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)

Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

A Mass of Life#

(Sung in German)

Heather Harper (soprano)

Helen Watts (contralto)

Robert Tear (tenor)

Bejamin Luxon (baritone)

London Philharmonic Choir

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Groves

Recorded *+ 1968; # 1972

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Riders to the Sea; Epithalamion; Merciless Beauty

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Riders to the Sea (Opera after John M.Synge)*

Nora......Norma Burrowes (soprano)

Cathleen...Margaret Price (soprano)

Maurya...Helen Watts (contralto)

Bartley...Benjamin Luxon (baritone)

A Woman...Pauline Stevens (mezzo-soprano)

...Valerie Hill (soprano).Gloria Jennings (contralto)

Ambrosian Singers

Orchestra Nova of London

Meredith Davies (Conductor)

Merciless Beauty (Chaucer): Three rondels for voice and string trio

Philip Landridge (tenor)

Members of the Endrillon String Quartet

 Epithalamion (Spenser)

for Baritone, Chorus, Piano, Solo Flute and String Orchestra

Stephen Roberts (baritone). Howard Shelley (piano), Johnathan Snowden (flute)

The Bach Choir

London Philarmonic Orchestra

Sir David Willcocks (Conductor)

William Alwyn - Miss Julie

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Miss Julie

Opera in Two Acts
libretto by the composer after August Strinberg

Philharmonia Orchestra

Vilem Tausky

Benjamin Luxon (Baritone)

Jill Gomez (Soprano)

Della Jones (Mezzo-soprano)

John Mitchinson (Tenor)