 In 1929, with Friedrich Schorr, Elisabeth Schumann and Margaret Balfour, he took part in the first full recording of the Bach "Mass in B Minor" conducted by Albert Coates.In 1932 he sang in Elgar's "The Kingdom", under Adrian Boult.Among his recordings of extracts from oratorio are examples of the declamatory 'set-pieces' such as "Sound an Alarm" (from "Judas Maccabaeus") and "Love sounds the alarm" and "Love in her eyes sits playing" ("Acis and Galatea").