Robert Easton (bass)

[3] That view was confirmed by a well-known singing teacher, Signor Bozzelli , and after being invalided out of the army Easton trained as a singer, studying under Dinh Gilly and Harry Plunket Greene.

[2] According to The Times, Easton's career began at the leading British music festivals, "where his strong, vibrant bass was much in demand".

[7] The reviewer in The Times said that Easton "added to Fafner's fearsome presence a tremendously resonant voice and set some of the other singers a good example in clear enunciation".

In the mid-1920s he began to make records for the Columbia company and made a long series of well-received discs of ballads and of more ephemeral material, as well as more serious music such as Handel arias, all, according to The Times, "showing his excellent diction and imposing voice".

[11] Sir Henry Wood, the dedicatee, conducted the premiere and he and the soloists reassembled to record the work for Columbia at EMI's studios ten days later.

The Times described his adjudications as "wise and well-informed", and added "His jovial personality and fund of good stories made him a racy companion at these events".