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 […]
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Albert Coates conducts Beethoven’s 9th (1923)
Posted by Damians78s on May 7, 2024
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Albert Coates – 142nd birthday
For my annual celebration of the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth I’m sharing his pair of recordings of operatic music by Boito, both of which were premiere recordings. Boito – Nerone – Act IV – Gloria, gloria vittoria a te – Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Coates His Master’s Voice D 938Matrix Cc 4831-I (4-0574)Recorded 2nd […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2024
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2024/04/23/albert-coates-142nd-birthday/
Albert Coates’s birthday
This year’s celebration of the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth brings more Wagner, and some familiar Stravinsky. When the Gramophone company was recording its sets of excerpts from the Ring of the Nibelung (in English) in 1922 and 1923, Tudor Davies was the singer for Siegmund. He initially made 2 takes of Siegmund’s “Spring song”, […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2023
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2023/04/23/albert-coatess-birthday-2/
Albert Coates’s 140th birthday
As it’s the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birthday, I present my customary update. This year it’s Coates in his familiar Wagner, but a recording that has been elusive on reissues. Coates recorded Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung twice. On 25th January 1926 Coates conducted a substantial Wagner recording session at the Queen’s Hall with an […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2022
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2022/04/23/albert-coatess-140th-birthday/
Albert Coates’s birthday
Albert Coates’s birthday This year for the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth I’ve selected several discs conducted by Coates (and a couple of related items not conducted by Coates.) To begin with, two of Coates’s less familiar recordings. In 1932 Coates two movements from Handel organ concertos, played by Herbert Dawson on the organ of […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2021
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Albert Coates and “The Rhinegold”
The anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth rolls round again. This year I’ve opted to transfer a disc from HMV’s acoustic Ring cycle excerpts in English of the early 1920s. “The Rhinegold” was rather short-changed in the set, meriting just one record, featuring scenes with Alberich. (HMV did also have a 1920 recording in the catalogue […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2020
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2020/04/23/albert-coates-and-the-rhinegold/
Albert Coates day
April 23rd is the anniversary of the birth of the wonderful Albert Coates. To celebrate, I’ve transferred a pair of his Wagner recordings. Wagner – Lohengrin – Act 3 Prelude – Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates HMV D 1054 Matrix Cc 7083-II (4-0751) Recorded 27th October 1925, Studio B, Hayes Wagner – Tannhäuser – March – […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2017
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Coates and Shakespeare
April 23rd is Shakespeare day, and also the birthday of the great Albert Coates. Firstly, two songs by Peter Warlock, the first to a Shakespeare test, sung by Parry Jones. Warlock – Take, o take those lips away (Shakespeare) Warlock – There is a lady sweet and kind (Thomas Ford) Parry Jones, tenor with piano […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2015
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Albert Coates conducts choral music
April 23rd is St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s birthday, and more importantly for this site, the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth. For this year’s Coates tribute, we have two early electrical choral recordings: excerpts from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and unaccompanied spurious Bach! Georg Gottfried Wagner – Blessing, Glory and Wisdom (attr. J.S. Bach, BWV Anh 162) Sung […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2013
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2013/04/23/albert-coates-conducts-choral-music/
Easthope Martin – Godard and Grieg; Albert Coates – Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers
There are two parts to this latest addition to my site. First, a performer who has appeared already as a composer: Easthope Martin, whose popular “Come to the fair” has been heard here performed both by Julie Andrews, and her stepfather Ted Andrews. However, in the period before the First World War, Martin recorded a […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2012
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Shakespeare recordings by pupils of the Guildhall School of Music, Basil Maine and John Gielgud; Albert Coates conducts Siegfried’s Funeral March
Today marks the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and death, and is also St. George’s Day. To mark the first of these, there are two quite different Shakespeare recordings from 78s, which are linked by a review in Gramophone magazine. Then there’s a set of Linguaphone recordings of John Gielgud performing Shakespeare. This is different to […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2011
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2011/04/23/shakespeare-recordings-by-pupils-of-the-guildhall-school-of-music-basil-maine-and-john-gielgud-albert-coates-conducts-siegfrieds-funeral-march/
Albert Coates conducts Wagner, Kletzki’s Beethoven and André Gertler in the Berg Violin Concerto
I couldn’t let Albert Coates’s birthday pass without a transfer of at least one of his recordings, and rather than go for his more common early electrical recordings, I’ve chosen his acoustic recording of the Meistersinger Overture. The other items for this update feature the conductor Paul Kletzki: his recording of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No.3, […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2009
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