All posts for the month May, 2024

Albert Coates conducts Beethoven’s 9th (1923)

It’s time for a special Albert Coates bonus this year. In autumn 1923, Coates recorded Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for the Gramophone Company. It was issued in May 1924 to mark the centenary of the work, so it appears here to mark the centenary of the recording being issued, and the bicentenary of the symphony, which […]