Benjamin Luxon interview on his career 

That final excerpt is GORGEOUS!

RIP 😢

I so missed BL from when he had his hearing problem. When I was a young singing student, I wrote to him asking for advice , and he wrote me a long, thoughtful and encouraging reply. I heard him with Robert Tear do the Victorian songs somewhere in Lancashire. They were outstanding together. I'm pleased he's gone on and developed his poetry and drama, post operatic career.

R.I.P. Benjamin Luxon.

@Griwhoolda It is a gorgeous thing. It's Irish. I have him singing it on a separate clip. Search for Benjamin Luxon sings She Moved Through the Fair.

@kadoguy2006 Thank you! (It just went to my gut last night when I heard it - and made me cry).

I remember Ben going back to when we did a televise with him , we were the Plymouth Youth Mandolin Orchestra & he sang three pieces with us .It was recording at then the Westward Televison Studio in Plymouth ,& then it was televise on Meridian television . It must be around somewhere ,

I do like B. Luxon with his unmistakable timbre. A real fine singer. Still there is one thing in this interview that I cannot fully understand: if he knew that his hearing was failing him, why did he go on singing for so long? It must be sheer torture for a conscientious artist not to be sure of his own performance; reminds me of a pilot going blind but refusing to leave the cockpit. Forced by his contracts? If he had dropped dead, he couldn't have served them either. Or have I missed something?