Description: Master W Ashworth - Boy Soprano - Southward Cathedral 1928 From our unique archives, this disk is remastered from the original disc and will be presented on a plain CD in a plain sleeve. Each CD is guaranteed. Copyright licences have been obtained where appropriate. This is one of the earliest boy sopranos to have been recorded electrically. A very fine transfer. We specialise in obtaining rare and deleted records, transferring them to CD at low cost for your enjoyment. Worldwide shipping is FREE Handel: How beautiful are the feet (Messiah) / Angels, ever bright and fair (Theodora) (Edison-Bell Radio 899 (8-inch) 1/3d, 78 RPM) Februar 1929Featuring Master W. Ashworth Two arias by G.F. Handel (1685-1759):A: How beautiful are the feet (from oratorio "Messiah", 1742)B: Angels, ever bright and fair (from oratorio "Theodora", 1750)Probably rec. in 1928.This little record retailed at 1/3. "Not the best of the present run of boy trebles. But his style is impeccable (for a boy), and his diction almost so (far more natural than most)."C.M. Crabtree in The Gramophone (February 1929, p. 404). "Master Ashworth is a very good solo treble, but the microphone has not been ideally placed, and best results, to avoid 'atmospherics' are obtained [by playing] with a soft needle. InAngels Ever Bright and Fair the organ is too much in the background, while on the reverse the voice is slightly too close up. An interesting record, notwithstanding."Review in The Sound Wave (London, Feb. 1929, p. 110).) "[He] has not all the airs and graces [of Ernest Lough], but he has quite a mellow treble voice, and intones the . . . two Handel airs in the best chorister fashion. He also reproduces quite well."(From review in Gramophone and Talking Machine News [London], Feb. 1929, p. 67.) Side A - How beautiful are the feet (Handel) (from "Messiah") Side B - Angels, ever bright and fair (Handel) (from "Theodora")
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Features: Remastered
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Release Title: Ashworth
Artist: Ashworth
Release Year: 1929
Genre: Classical
Type: Single
