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British Music Collection - George Butterworth
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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[Stone is] a fine performer, well supported by Barlow - and a thoughtful one, as his sleeve notes confirm —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Editor's Choice
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There's a touch of genius about Bryn Terfel.
To those who've known most of these songs since childhood and heard them well performed innumerable times, it will come not quite as a revelation... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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The English Song Series Volume 20 - George Butterworth
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Roderick Williams [is] rapidly becoming the voice of this repertoire - and not without reason. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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The Bridge Quartet’s unaffected playing and oaky, wide-grained tone fits [this music] beautifully —
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..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance... —
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When I was one-and-twenty
Butterworth and Gurney Songs
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano)
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A hefty bass-baritone in every sense, he's inevitably compared with Bryn Terfel, but his voice seems darker and somewhat smoother, less given to pianissimi but still expressive...Songs of Travel... —
