Silent Worship -Handel. Sung by David Hughes.

This, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I still get a lump in my throat whenever I hear it. David Hughes' rendition of it is particularly expressive. Ahhh, unrequited love!

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• silent
• worship
• handel
• baroque
• music
• classical
• david
• hughes

[VoceVersatile]

David Hughes started in pop in the nineteen fifties and reached number one in the charts. He retrained to became a classical soloist. My brother worked with him at Welsh National Opera in the early seventies. David had a fine spinto tenor voice ideally suited for Don Jose in Carmen which he sang in Cardiff. I also remember his delightful 'You are my Heart's Delight' on TV. His was a memorable voice and he was a role model for me. Thank you for posting.

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Thank you so much for this lovely recording. Had the immense joy of singing with him in Werther with GTO. He was a marvellous singer and actor and a charming, funny, lovely man.

[SecondGuessingUK]

@Ada1872 Although the numbers are diminished, you'll be glad to know this kind of singing is still taught at some schools! I myself was singing this song today at my lesson. :)

[Ada1872]

What beauty! Wish this current generation was taught at schools to sing as we were in those days.

[TrueBoo1000]

A wonderful man! A brilliant voice! His music and memory live on.

[Tomtonbuster]

He came and sang this and other solo pieces at a 'celebrity concert' at Bell Baxter High School, Cupar, Fife, Scotland when I was a pupil there in the '60s. I have never forgotten the sound of his voice. I was working abroad in the '70s and was not aware of the circumstances of his death. I had often wondered what happened to him. What a loss.

[achantus1]

What a voice! And he died so young. So sad.

[mattbod]

This man has a lovely voice. I read his brief life history online and was saddened to hear of his tragic death at a young age just as his career in opera was beginning to take off. I think a measure of the man can be seen in his comment to ambulance crew taking him to hospital after collapsing in the wings: " I didn't let them down did I ?"

[saltburner2]

David was developing into a fine operatic tenor at the time of his premature death.

He had a small part in the 1960 Glyndebourne 'Idomeneo' which also marked the UK operatic debut of one Luciano Pavarotti.

[WJCairns]

One of the few arias that sound better in the English translation than in the original italian

[AcademicChallenger]

Probably the greatest song about unrequited love. Has helped me with some things I am going through.

This is my favorite version on YouTube, although McKellar and Allen are great too. Three very different voices and interpretations, all very powerful.