 Allin was perhaps best known to contemporary music-goers as a concert recitalist and an oratorio singer.He appeared before the Royal Philharmonic Society in a Royal Choral Society Beethoven "Missa Solemnis" in 1927 under Sir Hugh Allen.In 1932, after giving his 270th performance of Handel's "Messiah", at a Halle concert, he decided not to sing the part again.