TREMENDOUS SINGING!!!! Heddle nash 1894 - 1961 Compilation of the ETERNAL British Tenor!

0:00 Un aura amorosa from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte 4:18 Il mio tesoro from Mozart's Don Giovanni 8:09 dies bildnis ist bezaubernd schon from Mozart Die Zauberflote sung in english 12:05 Wie stark ist nicht dein zauberton from Mozart Die Zauberflote sung in english 19:40 Salut! Demeure chaste et pure from Gounod's Faust sung in english 24:24 Che gelida manina from Puccini's La boheme sung in english 28:58 Deeper and deeper still...waft her angel from Handel's Jephtha 36:58 Comfort ye my people from Handel's Messiah 44:32 Lo here my love from Handel's Acis and galatea 48:03 Questo o quella from Verdi's Rigoletto sung in english 50:05 La donna e mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto sung in english THE END :) Heddle Nash (14 June 1894 – 14 August 1961) was an English lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio. He made numerous recordings that are still available on CD reissues. Nash was born in the South London district of Deptford on 14 June 1894, the son of William Nash, master builder, and his wife, Harriet Emma née Carr.[2] The family was musical, and listening at home to a gramophone record by Enrico Caruso prompted Nash to apply for a scholarship at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music.[3] He was accepted, but a week later World War I broke out. Nash joined the army, serving in France, Salonika, Egypt and Palestine. The Blackheath scholarship was held open until after the war; Nash took it up on his return. He had some experience of concert and oratorio work, and then he accepted an offer to sing with Podrecca and Feodora's Italian Marionettes. Unseen, standing in the orchestra pit of the Scala and Coliseum theatres, he sang the tenor roles in many Italian operas while on the stages the puppets mimed the action.[3] After the London season, the marionette company secured a contract to appear in New York; Nash went with them. On his return to London a friend advanced the money for him to study in Milan with Giuseppe Borgatti.[3] On 7 April 1923 Nash married Florence Emily Violet Pearce, daughter of a sign manufacturer.[2] They had two sons, John Dennis Heddle Nash (1926-1994), who became an operatic baritone, and David Leonard Heddle Nash (1930-2024).[4][5][6] While studying with Borgatti, Nash made his operatic debut in 1924 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan, when he replaced an indisposed tenor in the role of Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. It was a notable success. After singing at Turin, Bologna and Genoa, Nash returned to England with his wife in 1925. He had developed an Italianate style of singing that remained with him: it was said of him that he sang everything as though it were by Verdi.[2] On his return to London Nash was engaged by the Old Vic Company under Lilian Baylis to sing tenor roles in English.[2] His first part for the company was the Duke in Rigoletto. His success was instantaneous.[3] The Musical Times said that it was a pleasure to welcome a very beautiful tenor voice, praised his clarity of diction, and predicted that Nash would be one of the eminent lyric tenors of the future.[7] At the Old Vic he appeared as Tonio in The Daughter of the Regiment, in the title role in Faust, as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and as Tamino in The Magic Flute.[3][8] At the end of the Old Vic season he joined the British National Opera Company, going on tour with the company after a short London season. His roles included Almaviva, Fenton in Falstaff, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Des Grieux in Manon and David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.[8] In 1929, Nash made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in the company's International Season. He sang leading tenor roles in Italian and French operas at Covent Garden until World War II, including Almaviva, Pinkerton, Faust, Roméo, Rodolfo in La bohème, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, and Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.[8] The critic Alan Blyth called Nash the leading British lyric tenor of the 20th century, and considered him "ideal casting for the heroes of French 19th-century Romantic opera."[9] Nash had a repertoire of twenty-four operas, and sang fluently in English, French, German and Italian.[10] He was proud of being the first Englishman to sing David in Die Meistersinger in the International Season at Covent Garden.[3] Oratorio and later career Nash's career was not restricted to opera; he gave many song recitals, made radio broadcasts and performed in concerts and oratorio productions all over Britain.[3] In 1931, he was chosen by Sir Edward Elgar to sing the title role in The Dream of Gerontius, in a performance conducted by Elgar himself.