Lilli Malandraki, Donald Swann - An Evening In Crete flac album

Donald Swann was married twice; he married Janet Oxborrow in 1955 and they were divorced in 1983; his second wife was the art historian Alison Smith. In 1992 he was diagnosed with cancer. He died at Trinity Hospice in South London on 23 March 1994, survived by both wives and two children from his first marriage: Rachel and Natasha. When by chance Swann and Flanders met again in 1948 it led to the start of their professional partnership. They began writing songs and light opera, Swann writing the music and Flanders writing the words  . 1970 – An Evening in Crete (Donald Swann & Lilli Malandraki). 1971 – The Song of Caedmon (Donald Swann & Arthur Scholey, EP). 1973 – A Crack in Time (The Swann Singers).

Lilli Malandraki, Donald Swann - An Evening In Crete ‎(LP, Album). World Records (6). WRS 1006.

He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders as one half of Flanders and Swann. 1968 – Sing Round The Year (Boys of Westminster School and Girls of Mayfield Putney).

Donald's performing partnership with Cretan-born soprano Lilli Malandraki dates back to the early 1950s, but really took off in the 1960s with their show MOSTLY ABOUT CRETE, later becoming AN EVENING IN CRETE, which was made into an LP. Tours of the UK – and Cyprus. First Performance: Coventry Cathedral, July 1966. Theatre Royal, Bath, 12-13 June 1969. Began at the Edinburgh Festival with a handpicked London choir. Expanded into a touring programme using local choirs and organists.

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and Donald Swann 1977, Singalive, Wacky and His Fuddlejig, and Baboushka (three joint works with Arthur Scholey) 1978 and 1979, The Yeast Factory (music drama, with Alec Davison) 1979, Round the Piano with Donald Swann (children’s songs) 1979, Candle Tree (opera with Arthur Scholey about St. Boniface) 1980, The Visitors (opera, with Scholey, from a Tolstoy story) 1983, Swann with Topping (Multimedia). United States tour, 1966-1967. Arranged concerts of own settings: Set by Swann, An Evening in Crete: Soundings by Swann. Between the Bars: an autobiography in music. Musician in Residence, Quaker Study Center, Pendle Hill, United States of America, 1983. Has worked in song-writing and performing partnerships with Jeremy Taylor, Sydney Carter, Frank Topping, John Amis.