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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 […]

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Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2026

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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”, […]

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Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2023

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2023/04/23/albert-coatess-birthday-2/