All posts tagged Florence Austral

Albert Coates and Die Walküre

For Albert Coates’s birthday this year, I present two more excerpts from the Gramophone Company’s acoustically recorded series of highlights from Wagner’s Ring Cycle. This record contains excerpts from the end of Act 2 of The Valkyrie, sung in English by Florence Austral and Tudor Davies, and the Ride of the Valkyries which opens Act […]

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 […]