Benjamin Luxon, David Willison - Elgar & Delius Songs (Cassette, 1988)

Описание: 1. Pleading, Op. 48, No. 1
2. After, Op. 31, No. 1
3. A Song Of Flight, Op. 31, No. 2
4. Arabian Serenade
5. Op. 59: No. 3. Oh, Soft Was The Song
6. Op. 59: No. 5. Was It Some Golden Star?
7. Op. 59: No. 6. Twilight
8. Like To The Damask Rose
9. Queen Mary's Song
10. A Song Of Autumn
11. The Poet's Life
12. Through The Long Days, Op. 16, No. 2
13. Rondel, Op. 16, No. 3
14. Shepherd's Song, Op. 16, No. 1
15. Is She Not Passing Fair?
16. Sweet Venevil
17. Twilight Fancies
18. Secret Love
19. The Nightingale
20. The Nightingale Has A Lyre Of Gold
21. Indian Love Song
22. Love's Philosophy
23. I-Brasil
24. Spring, The Sweet Spring
25. To Daffodils
26. So White, So Soft, So Sweet Is She
27. It Was A Lover And His Lass

Born in Cornwall, Benjamin Luxon studied at the Guildhall School of Music where he won the school's Gold Medal. He went on to become a prizewinner at the International Competition in Munich. During the latter part of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s, he developed a versatile career, working with major orchestras both in the UK and abroad, and appearing in most of this country's major festivals. He is now established as one of Britain's most popular singers for opera, concerts and Lieder, and has appeared frequently on television
He is a regular visitor to both Covent Garden and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. His appearances at Covent Garden include the title role in Eugene Onegin, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Marcello in La Bohème and Falke in a production of Die Fledermaus which was televised throughout Western Europe and the USA. He has sung three major Mozart roles in Peter Hall productions at Glyndebourne: Don Giovanni, Papageno and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro. He is a regular guest at the Frankfurt and Holland Opera companies and has appeared in various productions at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, following his début there singing Onegin.
During the past few seasons Benjamin Luxon has appeared with all the major US orchestras, as well as other major orchestras including the London Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw and the Israel Philharmonic. He has performed Elijah with Ozawa and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and also with the Philharmonia Orchestra. In addition to his operatic singing, his repertoire includes works by Britten, Bach, Stravinsky and Walton, and he has made well over eighty recordings.
David Willison has come to the fore by his work with such distinguished musicians as Galway, Luxon, Palmer, Rolfe Johnson, Schwarzkopf and Tear. His principal partnership has been with Benjamin Luxon, a collaboration that now extends to twenty-five years of recital giving, over 150 broadcasts with much television, including the BBC Schubert anniversary tribute performing Die Winterreise, and travelling worldwide to the leading musical centres and festivals.
Together they have given many first performances as well as the standard Lieder and song repertoire.
David Willison also plays in the family piano trio with his brothers John and Peter. He devotes much of his time to students at the Royal Academy of Music, London in his role as Professor of Piano Chamber Music. He is a director of the music publishers Alfred Lengnick & Co.