Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]

Britten: Noye's Fludde / Wilks, Wilson, Wyn, BBC Concert

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: Benjamin Britten: Noye's Fludde, children's opera, Op. 59; A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Performers: Alleyne, Susan; Anderson, Louisa; Ankier, Joanne; Barnett, Judy; Bate, Jennifer; Baylav, H. Cahit; Belas, Oliver; Berry, Christine; Blomiley, Nigel; Carson, Frank; Cass, Helen; Cinnamon, Emily; Clark...
Conductors: Wilks, Nicholas
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra members; Finchley Children's Music Group

"This production has the benefit of very strong voices in Benjamin Luxon - resonant and impressive as 'The Voice of God' and David Wilson-Johnson as...continue...

The British Composers Guide to Britain

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-08-23

Works: Eric Coates: Knightsbridge March; London Suite; Edward Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town), concert overture, Op. 40; Severn Suite, Op. 87; Caractacus, Op. 35; Percy Grainger: Handel in the Strand; Bri...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Barrueco, Manuel; Bayl, Benjamin; Bell, David [Organ]; Benson, Garth; Bostridge, Ian; Brannigan, Owen; Bullard, Thomas; Harvey, Frederi...
Conductors: Groves, Charles, Sir; Barbirolli, John; del Mar, Norman; Ord, Boris; Previn, Andre; Layton, Stephen; Cleobury, Stephen; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Bishop, Christopher; Irving, Rober...
Ensemble: ; London Music Group; Polyphony (Vocal Ensemble)

This bright and breezy guide takes us in 50 stops from London, round Essex and East Anglia, up to Scotland, then - via Wales and...continue...

Peter Pears: Anniversary Tribute

6 CD / Decca / 2010-06-21

Works: Benjamin Britten: Serenade, for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31; Sonnets (7) of Michelangelo, for voice & piano, Op. 22; The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54; The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37; Canticle II, Op. 51...
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Brain, Dennis [French Horn]; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Britten, Benjamin; Bush, Alan; Cable, Margaret; Cross, Joan; Dart, Thurston; Dickinson, Meriel; Dickson,...
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin; Bedford, Steuart; Boult, Adrian; Norrington, Roger; Munchinger, Karl; Jochum, Eugen; Davis, Colin; Lutoslawski, Witold
Ensemble: ; Melos Ensemble of London

The recorded legacy of the great English tenor Peter Pears is substantial and wide-ranging. It embraces Baroque repertory and Elizabethan songs as well as a...continue...

Anthology of English Song 1530-1790 / Burrowes, Luxon, Eathorne, Langridge, et al

2 CD / Lyrita / 2009-04-14

Works: Richard Edwards: Where Griping Grief the Heart Doth Wound; John Danyel: Why Canst Thou Not?; Griefe Keepe Within; Alfonso Ferrabosco: When Daphne from Fair Phoebus Did Fly, consort song; William Byrd...
Performers: Brett, Charles; Burrowes, Norma; Eathorne, Wendy; Gammie, Ian; Jenkins, Neil; Jones, Trevor [Viol]; Kraemer, Nicholas; Langridge, Philip; Lester, Harold; Lewis, Anthony; Lloyd, Robert [Bass Voice]; L...

Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung

2 CD / Decca Import / 2009-01-27

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation, H 21 no 2
Performers: Doese, Helena; Hollweg, Werner [Tenor Vocals]; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Moll, Kurt; Popp, Lucia
Conductors: Dorati, Antal

BBC Music Magazine
The soloists might be 'heavyweight' in more senses than one (some of the recits are 'Old Testament' in their portentousness), but Dorati's joy...continue...

Vaughan Williams - The Collector's Edition / Willcocks, Boult, Bean, Barbirolli, et al

30 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 1 "A sea symphony"; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); Symphony no 8 in D minor; Symphony no 3 for soprano or tenor & orchestra ("Pastoral"...
Performers: Adler, Larry; Allen, Thomas; Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Aronowitz, Cecil; Asch, David van; Bainbridge, Elisabeth; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Balmain, Ian; Barlo...
Conductors: Handley, Vernon; Boult, Adrian; Silvestri, Constantin; Banks, Eric; Groves, Charles, Sir; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Barbirolli, John; Hickox, Richard; O'Brien, Brendan; Davies, Meredith; Willcocks, Davi...
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; King's College Choir, Cambridge; London Madrigal Singers; London Music Group; London Philharmonic Orch...

This 30-CD budget boxed set contains all of the hits, as well as other gems such as 'A Sea Symphony', 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols', 'On...continue...

Alwyn: Mirages, Fantasy-Waltzes, etc / Luxon, Willison, et al

2 CD / Lyrita / 2008-05-13

Works: William Alwyn: Mirages, song cycle for voice & piano; Divertimento for flute solo; Fantasy-Sonata for Flute and Harp "Naiades"; Fantasy-Waltzes (11) for piano; Sonata alla toccata, for piano
Performers: Hyde-Smith, Christopher; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Randell, Sheila; Robles, Marisa [Harp]; Willison, David

Ireland: The Songs / Luxon, Hodgson, Mitchinson, Rowlands

3 CD / Lyrita / 2007-11-13

Works: John Ireland: Songs of a Wayfarer, songs (5) for voice & piano; When lights go rolling round the sky; Hope the hornblower; Sea fever; Marigold; Songs (5) to poems by Thomas Hardy, for voice & piano; ...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Mitchinson, John; Rowlands, Alan

Legendary performances on CD for the first time! Three great vocal artists in rarely heard repertory of the greatest interest. Includes booklet with complete texts...continue...

Elgar: The Collector's Edition

30 CD / EMI Classics / 2007-11-06

Works: Edward Elgar: Symphony no 1 in A flat major, Op. 55; Introduction and Allegro, for string quartet & string orchestra in G major, Op. 47; Symphony no 2 in E flat major, Op. 63; Elegy for Strings, Op. ...
Performers: Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bean, Hugh; Ben-Tovim, Atarah; Borg, Kim; Bramma, Harry; Cahill, Teresa; Case, John Carol; Chapman, Michael; Cook, Brian R...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Groves, Charles, Sir; Handley, Vernon; Boult, Adrian; Collingwood, Lawrance; Marriner, Sir Neville; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Hickox, Richard; Robinson, Christopher; del Mar, Norman; Hal...
Ensemble: ; Allegri String Quartet

Following the releases of the Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert Collector's Edition Boxed sets, EMI Classics is now proud to present the Elgar Collector's Edition. To...continue...

Alwyn: Miss Julie / Tausky, Gomez, Luxon, et al

2 CD / Lyrita / 2007-02-13

Works: William Alwyn: Miss Julie, opera
Performers: Gomez, Jill; Jones, Della; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Mitchinson, John
Conductors: Tausky, Vilem
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

Alwyn was a pioneer in composing serious music for films, and between 1936 and 1962 wrote the music for sixty feature films including Odd Man...continue...

Fauré: Requiem, Messe Basse; Poulenc, Duruflé / Philip Ledger, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2007-01-23

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Messe basse, for solo voices, chorus & organ; Maurice Duruflé: Motets (4) on Gregorian themes, Op. 10; Francis Poulenc: Mass in G
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Butt, John [Organ, Conductor]; Harris, Mark; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Smy, Paul
Conductors: Ledger, Philip, Sir; Neary, Martin
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra; King's College Choir, Cambridge; Winchester Cathedral Choir

Haydn: The Creation / Popp, Luxon, Tennstedt, London PO

2 CD / London Philharmonic Orchestra / 2006-02-21

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation, H 21 no 2
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Popp, Lucia; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Tennstedt, Klaus
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Haydn composed this supreme choral masterpiece late in his career. The libretto, translated from English, is based on the biblical story and on Milton's Paradise...continue...

The Mozart Collection - Great Mass in C minor, Adagio, etc

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-02-14

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor, K 427 (417a) "Great"; Adagio and Fugue for Strings in C minor, K 546
Performers: Bell, David [Organ]; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Perry, Janet; Schreier, Peter
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

"Under Karajan, the talented Barbara Hendricks gives a near-perfect performances of the lovely "Laudamus te" [...] and brings a more than usually accomplished control of...continue...

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Maurice Duruflé: Requiem

1 CD / HBDirect Import / 2005-07-08

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Performers: Cleobury, Stephen [Organ/Conductor]; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Palmer, Felicity; Shirley-Quirk, John
Conductors: Guest, George; Hickox, Richard

Britten Conducts Britten Operas Vol 2

10 CD / Decca / 2005-03-15

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64; Phaedra, Op. 93; The Rape of Lucretia; Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54; Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88; Gloriana, opera, Op. 53
Performers: Adams, Stephen James; Ainsley, John Mark; Alder, Eric; Bainbridge, Elisabeth; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Barstow, Josephine; Bates, Angela Vernon; Bauer, Michael; Bowen, Kenneth; Bowma...
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin; Bedford, Steuart; Mackerras, Charles, Sir
Ensemble: ; Welsh National Opera Chorus

These recordings of the remaining five Britten operas in the Decca catalog are conducted by mixture of the composer and two colleagues, Steuart Bedford and...continue...

Britten Conducts Britten Operas Vol 1

8 CD / Decca / 2004-10-12

Works: Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39; Owen Wingrave, opera, Op. 85; Billy Budd, Op. 50; Peter Grimes
Performers: Amit, Sheila; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bowman, David; Brannigan, Owen; Bryn-Jones, Delme; Bush, Henry; Cantelo, April; Coleby, Geoffrey; Dempsey, Gregory; Douglas, Nigel; Drake, Brya...
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: Ambrosian Opera Chorus; English Chamber Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

These recordings of four of Britten's operas conducted by the composer are all classics. Owen Wingrave remains unique as an audio recording and this reissue...continue...

Britten: Billy Budd / Britten, London SO

3 CD / Decca Import / 2004-09-14

Works: Benjamin Britten: Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35; Songs and Proverbs of W. Blake, song cycle for baritone & piano, Op. 74; Billy Budd, Op. 50
Performers: Bowman, David; Bowman, Robert [Tenor Vocal]; Brannigan, Owen; Britten, Benjamin; Bryn-Jones, Delme; Bush, Henry; Coleby, Geoffrey; Dempsey, Gregory; Drake, Bryan; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Garrett, ...
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: Ambrosian Opera Chorus

Classics - Britten: War Requiem / Shaw, Atlanta SO & Chorus

2 CD / Telarc / 2004-06-22

Works: Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Performers: Haywood, Lorna; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Shaw, Robert

America's Greatest Hits

1 CD / Universal Classics / 2004-05-11

Works: Irving Berlin: God Bless America; Samuel A. Ward: America the Beautiful; May H. Brahe: Bless This House, for chorus & keyboard; Henry Carey: America (My Country 'tis of Thee); American Traditional: S...
Performers: Band Of The Grenadier Guards; Bashford, Rodney; Black, Stanley; Boston Pops; Eastman Wind Ensemble; Fennell, Frederick [Conductor]; Hunsberger, Donald; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Merrill, Robe...
Conductors: Black, Stanley; Ottley, Jerold D.; Williams, John; Bashford, Rodney; Pope, Douglas A.; Harris, Frederick J.; Fennell, Frederick; Hunsberger, Donald
Ensemble: ; Band of Coldstream Guards; Band of the Grenadier Guards; Eastman Wind Ensemble

Personnel: Benjamin Luxon , Robert Merrill (baritone); David Willison (piano)....continue...

The British Music Collection - Butterworth: Six Songs, etc

1 CD / Decca Import / 2004-03-09

Works: George Butterworth: Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad", for voice & piano (or orchestra); Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano; A Shropshire Lad; English Idylls (2); Banks of Green...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

"The orchestral rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad, with its yearning lyricism, represents the English folksong school at its most captivatingly atmospheric, and the other three works...continue...

Schubert: Schwanengesang / Benjamin Luxon, David Wilson

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-02-25

Works: Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David

Down by the Salley Gardens / Benjamin Luxon, David Willison

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-08-28

Works: English Traditional: The Jolly Miller, folk song; Drink to me only with thine eyes, folk song; The Foggy, Foggy Dew, folk song; The Isle of Cloy, folk song; Died for Love, folk song; Lovely Mollie, f...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David

This collection of British folk songs are performed in arrangements by great British composers and songwriters such as Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter and Percy Grainger....continue...

Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, etc / Atherton, et al

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1999-09-14

Works: Kurt Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"); Mahagonny Songspiel, for soloists & orchestra; Concerto for Violin & wind orchestra, Op. 12; Happy En...
Performers: Dickinson, Meriel; Langridge, Philip; Liddell, Nona; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Partridge, Ian [Tenor Vocals]; Rippon, Michael; Thomas, Mary

"That Kurt Weill had an imaginative range is strikingly reinforced in this superb collection...It will be a revelation to many to hear performances of such...continue...

Fauré, Duruflé: Requiem, etc / Guest, St John's College

2 CD / Decca / 1995-06-13

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11; Messe basse, for solo voices, chorus & organ; Francis Poulenc: Mass in G; Salve Regina; Litanies à la vierge noire de Roca...
Performers: Bond, Jonathan; Brunt, Andrew; Cleobury, Stephen [Organ/Conductor]; Keyte, Christopher; King, Robert; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Guest, George
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; St. John's College Choir, Cambridge

Karajan Gold - Mozart: Grosse Mess C-Moll / Berlin PO

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1993-11-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor, K 427 (417a) "Great"
Performers: Bell, David [Organ]; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Perry, Janet; Schreier, Peter
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Wiener Singverein

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, etc / Luxon, Willison

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra); Tired, song for voice & piano (Last Songs no 2); In the Spring ("My love is the maid"), song for voice & piano; L...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David

Quilter: Songs / Benjamin Luxon, David Willison

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Roger Quilter: Love's Philosophy, for voice & piano, Op. 3/1; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; At the Close of Day; Shakespeare Songs (3) for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op....
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David

Butterworth, Gurney: Songs / Benjamin Luxon, David Willison

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: George Butterworth: Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad", for voice & piano (or orchestra); Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano; Ivor Gurney: The Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes, for voi...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David

britten: the rape of lucretia

2 CD / Decca Import / 1990-02-05

Works: Benjamin Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93; The Rape of Lucretia
Performers: Bainbridge, Elisabeth; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Drake, Bryan; Harper, Heather; Hill, Jenny; Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Pears, Peter, Sir; Shirley-Quirk, John
Conductors: Bedford, Steuart; Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra