Benjamin Luxon - The Dicky Bird & the Owl: Victorian Songs and Ballads (1973/2021)

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Artist: Robert Tear, Benjamin Luxon, André Previn
Title: The Dicky Bird & the Owl: Victorian Songs and Ballads
Year Of Release: 1973/2021
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 54:23 min
Total Size: 232 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Sullivan: The Dicky Bird and the Owl
02. Dix: The Trumpeter
03. Leslie: Annabelle Lee
04. Haines: The Catch of the Season, Act II: Cigarette Song. "Come from the Box Where Your form Lies Hid"
05. Dibdin: Tom Bowling
06. Marchant: Saved from the Deep
07. Benedict: The Lily of Killarney, Act I: Duet. "The Moon Hath Raised Her Lamp Above"
08. Balfe: Excelsior!
09. Balfe: Come Into The Garden, Maud
10. Blockley: The Arab's Farewell to His Steed (With Spoken Introduction)
11. Hatton: The Lark Now Leaves His Wat'ry Nest
12. Braham: The Americans: The Death of Nelson. "O'er Nelson's Tomb: - "'Twas in Trafalgar Bay"
13. Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant, Act II: Gendarmes' Duet. "We're Public Guardians, Bold Yet Wary"

Here is a lovely and underrated album by André Previn, this time at the piano and surrounded by Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon, two key figures of British vocal art. The off-the-beaten-track program is centered on light songs from the mid and late 19th-century, a period often undeservedly regarded as an age of fall for British music. This recording reveals the vitality of the singing tradition of that time with delightful melodies by Sullivan or Balfe, and other composers largely forgotten such as John Liptrot Hatton or Charles Dibdin.

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Benjamin Luxon - The Dicky Bird & the Owl: Victorian Songs and Ballads (1973/2021) FLAC - 232.9 MB