Extra Tracks

Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files. Those originating on 78rpm discs are raw and no attempt to clean up the surface noise had been made although we have removed some loud cracks and bangs. Please note the previews are compressed files so the sound is not as good as that on the whole track.

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Helen Watts (contralto) 1927 - 2009

The Welsh contralto, Helen Watts, started her siinging caeer singing in the chorus at Glyndebouren and for the BBC where she received broadcasting engagemnets from BBC Wales. She made he Henry Wood Prom debut in 1953 siging Bach under the direction of Sir Malcolm Sargent. At the 1958 Camden festival she made her first opera appreance as Didymus in Handel's Theodora. She soom became a distinguished concert artist. Her recording career was extensive, ranging from acclaimed Bach cantatas and oratorios under Otto Klemperer, Ernest Ansermet, Britten and the Bach specialist Helmuth Rilling; The Messiah and The Dream of Gerontius under Sir Colin Davis; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Leopold Stokowski and Mahler's Second and Eighth Symphonies under Sir Georg Solti. She retired in 1985 to care for her husband in their Pembrokeshire home.

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