Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
Silent Worship, extrait de "Ptolemee"
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people
Ev'ry valley shall be exalted, extrait de "Le Messie"
Sound an alarm, extrait de "Judas Maccabaeus"
Lo! Here my love
Love in her eyes sits playing, extrait d"Acis et Galatée"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Dalla sua pace, extrait de "Don Giovanni"
Il mio tesoro, extrait de "Don Giovanni"
O loveliness beyond compare, extrait de "La flûte enchantée"
O voice of magic melody, extrait de "La flûte enchantée"
Un'aura amorosa, extrait de "Cosi fan tutte"

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
O paradise, extrait de "L'Africaine"

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Down her pale cheek, extrait de "L'elisir d'amore"

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
In my heartall are equally cherished, extrait de "Rigoletto"
Ah, cruel fate...Art thou weeping?, extrait de "Rigoletto"
Plume in the summer wind, extrait de "Rigoletto"

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Serenade, extrait de "La jolie fille de Perth"

Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
My husband, Punchinello, extrait de "Paillasse"

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Vagabond
Linden Lea
Silent Noon

William Heddle Nash, ténor
Gerald Moore, piano
Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
Maurice Miles, direction
Warwick Braithwaite, direction
Walter Suskind, direction
Glynderbourne Festival Opera Company
Fritz Busch, direction
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent, direction

Heddle Nash (1894 - 1961) was an English lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio in the middle decades of the twentieth century whose quality of timbre remains unsurpassed today. This collection captures him in operatic roles for which he was most renowned & features a number of Handel oratorio roles in which he specialised. Three of Vaughan Williams’ songs are also featured.