Coates, Elgar, Coward: Orchestral Music

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Release Date: 12th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: ELQ4840190
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Coates, E: The Three Elizabeths Suite

Work length19:29

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New Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates
Recorded: 1953-02-04
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Halcyon Days

Track length7:29

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Springtime in Angus

Track length7:12

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Youth of Britain

Track length4:48

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Coates, E: Four Centuries (Suite)

Work length21:29

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New Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates
Recorded: 1953-02-04
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

1. Prelude and Hornpipe (17th century)

Track length6:24

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2. Pavane and Tambourin (18th century)

Track length5:58

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3. Valse (19th century)

Track length4:42

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4. Rhythm (20th century)

Track length4:25

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Coates, E: The Three Bears - A Phantasy

Work length9:33

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New Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates
Recorded: 1949-05-03
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Coates, E: The Dance of the Orange Blossoms ("The Jester at the Wedding")

Work length3:58

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New Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates
Recorded: 1949-05-03
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Coates, E: The Three Men - A Suite

Work length13:30

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New Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates
Recorded: 1949-05-03
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. The man from the country

Track length4:17

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2. The man about town

Track length4:43

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3. The man from the sea

Track length4:30

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Purcell: Suite from the Dramatic Music of Purcell

Work length10:03

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Strings Of The London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1953-01-07
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Rondeau (Arr. & Ed. Albert Coates)

Track length1:41

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2. Slow (Arr. & Ed. Albert Coates)

Track length3:10

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3. Air (Arr. & Ed. Albert Coates)

Track length1:36

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4. Minuet (Arr. & Ed. Albert Coates)

Track length1:38

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5. Finale (Arr. & Ed. Albert Coates)

Track length1:58

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Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Work length30:42

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London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1953-01-07
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Theme. Andante

Track length1:38

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Variation I. L'istesso tempo "C.A.E."

Track length1:50

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Variation II. Allegro "H.D.S-P."

Track length0:45

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Variation III. Allegretto "R.B.T."

Track length1:21

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Variation IV. Allegro di molto "W.M.B."

Track length0:31

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Variation V. Moderato "R.P.A."

Track length2:06

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Variation VI. Andantino "Ysobel"

Track length1:20

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Variation VII. Presto "Troyte"

Track length1:00

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Variation VIII. Allegretto "W.N."

Track length1:54

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Variation IX. Adagio "Nimrod"

Track length3:53

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Variation X. Intermezzo: Allegretto "Dorabella"

Track length2:36

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Variation XI. Allegro di molto "G.R.S."

Track length1:00

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Variation XII. Andante "B.G.N."

Track length2:45

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Variation XIII. Romanza: Moderato "* * *"

Track length2:49

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Variation XIV. Finale: Allegro Presto "E.D.U."

Track length5:14

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Coward, N: London Morning - Ballet

Work length16:52

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Geoffrey Corbett
Recorded: 1959-07-18
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Prelude and Sentries Duet (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length5:30

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Introduction and Mozurka (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length2:59

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Introduction and Hornpipe (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length1:54

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Scene and Pas de deux (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length6:29

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Coward, N: London Morning

Work length5:33

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Geoffrey Corbett
Recorded: 1959-07-18
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Schoolgirls and Nuns - Changing of the Guard (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length5:33

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Coward, N: London Morning - Ballet

Work length11:46

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Geoffrey Corbett
Recorded: 1959-07-18
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

The Bathchair (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length1:38

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The Streatham Family (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length2:03

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Pas de Deux (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length3:20

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Juvenile Delinquents-Rain Scene-Finale: London Pride (Orch. Gordon Jacob)

Track length4:45

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Four 1950s Decca records of popular English music, newly remastered and issued complete for the first time on CD.

Better than anyone else, Eric Coates and Sir Noël Coward captured the moods of middle-class, mid-century England at its most optimistic – and in other ways most nostalgic, comforting their audiences and distracting them from their troubles with music as changeable as the weather if orchestrated always on the sunny side. The revival of interest in British light music makes this collection all the more appealing, featuring first recordings of three extended orchestral suites by Coates (recorded 1949-1954) and Coward’s London Morning ballet (1959, still in mono).

The Three Bears is a brief orchestral fantasy on the tale of Goldilocks, illustrated by Coates with a Straussian pictorial relish. The Three Men captures the characters of a trio of English archetypes, in the country, in the city and at sea and The Three Elizabeths present a gallery of royal portraits, unified by a motto theme made famous as the signature tune to the BBC’s film adaptation of The Forsyte Saga. Perhaps his most developed score, The Four Centuries crosses the ages from seventeenth-century pageantry, through the age of the waltz to the hectic world of big-band jazz.

As a former professional violist working under Sir Henry Wood and Sir Thomas Beecham, Coates knew how to tell a story through notes with the fewest notes and the most character. Coward’s success was also built on economy of means, with words as well as notes. Orchestrated by Gordon Jacob, his score for London Morning deftly sketches one scene after another: a suburban family, a girl teasing a sentry and a bobby on the beat, all to the familiar accompaniment of rain and bells.

As a conductor rather than composer, Sir Malcolm Sargent embodied English music-making of the 1950s no less than Coward or Coates. This collection is completed with a new remastering of his 1953 Decca album, pairing Elgar’s Enigma Variations with a suite of theatrical music by Purcell as arranged by the conductor Albert Coates (no relation of Eric).

Coates, Elgar, Coward: Orchestral Music

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