| The English basso profundo Norman Allin (1884-1973) was prominent from the 1920s to the 1940s. He was in the original line-up of soloists for Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music. Allin was also one of the first singers at Glyndebourne, where he sang Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. | |
| Purcell arr A Moffatt – Awake! ye dead Purcell arr A Moffatt – Come ye sons of Art – Sound the trumpet Harold Williams, baritone, Norman Allin, bass Orchestra |
Columbia 5438 Matrices WA 8788-2, 8789-2 (38877, 38876) Recorded late March or early April 1929 Issued December 1929 “Sound the trumpet” was a regular party piece for two low voices at the time of this recording, though it is now more usually sung by two countertenors. |
| Hedgcock – Sleep my Saviour, sleep Gruber – Silent Night Isobel Baillie, soprano; Muriel Brunskill, contralto; Heddle Nash, tenor; Norman Allin, bass Orchestra |
Columbia DB 976 Matrices CA 13155-2, 13156-2 Recorded 1930s |
| Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood Isobel Baillie, soprano Lilian Stiles Allen, soprano Elsie Suddaby, soprano Eva Turner, soprano Margaret Balfour, contralto Muriel Brunskill, contralto Astra Desmond, contralto Mary Jarred, contralto Parry Jones, tenor Heddle Nash, tenor Frank Titterton, tenor Walter Widdop, tenor Norman Allin, bass Robert Easton, bass Roy Henderson, baritone Harold Williams, baritone Download – Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music – Henry Wood (mp3 file – right click the link, then select “Save as”) |
Columbia LX757-8 Matrices CAX 8367-2A, 8368-2A, 8369-1, 8370-1 Recorded 15th October 1938 |