Alexander Young (1920-2000) was a Scottish tenor, admired in opera, oratorio and English repertory. He sang with major British companies and became especially valued for his musical intelligence and clear diction.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Beecham’s Mozart and Bizet recordings and in Britten’s Billy Budd, where British vocal style and textual precision matter greatly.

Young’s voice was light, flexible and cultivated, more lyric than heroic. He brought elegance, verbal clarity and dramatic alertness to a wide range of music.

He remains one of the significant British tenors of the post-war period. His recordings show the virtues of a singer who could make good taste feel alive rather than polite.