In the concert hall, his repertoire included the tenor parts in Handel's Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah and Haydn's The Creation.
In the post-war Covent Garden company he appeared in Peter Brook's production of Boris Godunov; the staging of The Magic Flute designed by Oliver Messel; the première of Arthur Bliss and J.
In 1938, he was one of the four tenors featured in the line-up of 16 eminent singers who performed in the première of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music, celebrating Sir Henry Wood's silver jubilee as a conductor.
In addition to opera and oratorio, his repertoire included German Lieder, French and English songs, and contemporary music: he sang in the first performances in England of Wozzeck, Gurrelieder, Doctor Faustus and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
[citation needed] He was later honoured in his home town Blaina along with Mostyn Thomas and others, by having a street named after him in the Forgeside council estate in 1985.