Norman Allin - Recordings

Recordings

Norman Allin recorded for Columbia Records. His recording career lasted from circa 1916 to circa 1940. Many of his titles were cut twice, first acoustically and then, after 1925, electrically.

Among the acoustic recordings was an early best-seller, the 10" record of Bruno Huhn's 'Invictus' (to words of W. E. Henley) coupled with Coningsby Clarke's 'The Blind Ploughman'. This was re-made electrically and shows Allin's voice in fine form. Examples of his operatic and concert titles are:

• Handel: O Ruddier than the Cherry (Acis and Galatea)
• Handel: Honour and Arms (Samson)
• Handel: Aria from Partenope
• Handel: But Who may Abide?, The People that Walked in Darkness, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and Why do the Nations? (Messiah)
• Mozart: O Isis and Osiris, and Within These Hallowed Dwellings (The Magic Flute)
• Mozart: See the Way You Rogues (Il Seraglio)
• Halévy: Tho' Faithless men (Si la rigueur) (La Juive)
• Wagner: Wotan's farewell (Die Walküre)
• Wagner: Hagen's Watch, and Hagen's Call (Götterdämmerung)
• Tchaikovsky: To the Forest
• Loewe: Edward
• Gounod: items from Faust
• Gounod: Nazareth
• Gounod: Jésus de Nazareth (1932, w. BBC Chorus, cond. Stanford Robinson)
• Gounod: She Alone Charmeth my Sadness (La reine de Saba)
• Jean-Baptiste Faure: The Palms
• Richard Strauss: A Lied.
• He recorded duets with Frank Mullings, Hubert Eisdell and Dora Labbette.

He was listed to appear in the 1930s Glyndebourne version of Le Nozze di Figaro as Bartolo, to Roy Henderson's Count and Heddle Nash's Basilio. He also took part in the Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music recording immediately after the concert premiere of that work in 1938.