Richard Lewis was a Welsh tenor, one of the leading British singers of the mid-twentieth century. He was admired in opera, oratorio and British repertory.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Britten, Walton, Verdi, Elgar and Gilbert and Sullivan-related recordings, including Billy Budd, Troilus and Cressida and The Dream of Gerontius.

Lewis’s singing combined clarity, lyric strength and a strongly communicative English-language style, making him central to much British performance of his generation.

His page is essential. Lewis gives the British vocal shelf a tenor line of steel, sunlight and clean diction.