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Tenor Ben Davies (1858-1943)
A Spring Night (Schumann) I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly from "The Indian Queen" (Purcell, Arr. W. H. Cummings)
Recorded: 1924 --
The Gramophone advertisement is from The Observer (London, Greater London, England), Sunday, January 6, 1924 (page 7)
Ben Davies (6 January 1858 – 28 March 1943): Welsh tenor singer who appeared with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd as a leading British tenor and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance. The earliest recordings by Davies are Pathé brown wax cylinders from the mid-1890s. Davies had an early start among British singers in making gramophone records, beginning in 1901. Joe Batten noted: "Sir Landon Ronald persuaded [him] to make his first records. He had laughed at the idea of singing into a tin trumpet, but when the test record of Henry Bishop's My Pretty Jane was played back to him, he was inexpressibly delighted."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davies_(tenor)
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Tenor Ben Davies (1858-1943)
A Spring Night (Schumann) I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly from "The Indian Queen" (Purcell, Arr. W. H. Cummings)
Recorded: 1924 --
The Gramophone advertisement is from The Observer (London, Greater London, England), Sunday, January 6, 1924 (page 7)
Ben Davies (6 January 1858 – 28 March 1943): Welsh tenor singer who appeared with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd as a leading British tenor and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance. The earliest recordings by Davies are Pathé brown wax cylinders from the mid-1890s. Davies had an early start among British singers in making gramophone records, beginning in 1901. Joe Batten noted: "Sir Landon Ronald persuaded [him] to make his first records. He had laughed at the idea of singing into a tin trumpet, but when the test record of Henry Bishop's My Pretty Jane was played back to him, he was inexpressibly delighted."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davies_(tenor)
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