Heddle Nash 1948 (Gerald Moore, piano) Hugo-Liszt "Oh! quand je dors" French(Full texts F/E)

vinyl Heddle Nash 1948 (Gerald Moore, piano) Hugo-Liszt "Oh! quand je dors" Sung in French(Full texts F/E) Hugo-Liszt "Oh! quand je dors" (in French)(Oh! when I sleep) Heddle Nash 1948 (Error in text in video:Heddle Nash) Gerald Moore, piano an operbathosa video Oh! quand je dors, viens auprès de ma... French Oh! quand je dors, viens auprès de ma couche, comme à Pétrarque apparaissait Laura, Et qu'en passant ton haleine me touche... Soudain ma bouche S'entrouvrira! Sur mon front morne où peutêtre s'achève Un songe noir qui trop longtemps dura, Que ton regard comme un astre se lève... [Soudain]1 mon rêve Rayonnera! Puis sur ma lèvre où voltige une flamme, Éclair d'amour que Dieu même épura, Pose un baiser, et d'ange deviens femme... Soudain mon âme S'éveillera! Oh! when I sleep Language: English (Complete translation by Emily Ezust) Oh, when I sleep, approach my bed, as Laura appeared to Petrach; and as you pass, touch me with your breath... at once my lips will part! On my glum face, where perhaps a dark dream has rested for too long a time, let your gaze lift it like a star... at once my dream will be radiant! Then on my lips, where there flits a brilliance, a flash of love that God has kept pure, place a kiss, and transform from angel into woman... at once my soul will awaken! English (Emily Ezust) English [singable] (Peter Low) Biographical notes: Heddle Nash was born on 14 June 1894 at Deptford, a suburb of London and was soon detected to sing in the Choir of Westminster Abbey. In 1914, he won a scholarship at the Blackheath Conservatory but was not able to take it up because Worldwar I intervened. He was wounded, but nursed back to health by the girl whom he was to marry and with whom he was to have two sons (one became a distinguished baritone). After war he finally studied with Marie Brema at the Blackheath Conservatory. At a time Nash worked with a theatre of marionettes where his voice was only heard from the orchestral pit (!). The company was based in Rome and the young singer had the opportunity to study with the famous Italian dramatic tenor Giuseppe Borgatti. It was at the Teatro Carcano in Milan where Nash had the opportunity to replace an undisposed tenor in the role as Almaviva. It was a big success for the young tenor. Back in London in 1925, he quickly was engaged by the Old Vic Theatre to sing many of the more lyric tenor roles (all in English!). Engagements with the British National Opera Company followed. It was in 1929 when he appeared at Covent Garden for the first time. He became a favorite artist there, much acclaimed as Don Ottavio, Tamino, Pedrillo (to Taubers Belmonte), Rodolfo, David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (one of his finest roles on stage), Duca, Almaviva, Roméo, etc. Nash was also a very fine interpreter in operettas by J. Strauss and Millöcker. Finally, he was one of the greatest English oratorio and concert singers (Messiah, The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar), Jephta, Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams). His partners on the stage included singers such as the wonderful Maggie Teyte, Richard Tauber, Dennis Noble, the superb contralto Muriel Brunskill, Florence Easton , Dennis Noble and Lisa Perli (alias concert soprano Doris Labbette). Nashs last operatic appearance took place in 1957. He continued to perform on the concert platform, singing in Handels Messiah only a few months before his death in 1961. http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Tenors...