Coates Sound and Vision
Doing Coates proud again. Now, how about a complete edition of his music?
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Composer or Director: Eric Coates
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Epoch
Magazine Review Date: 7/2008
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDLX7198
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Sound and Vision |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
From the Countryside |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
Holborn |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
Moresque |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
Four Ways |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
(The) Three Bears, Movement: Waltz |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
(The) Eighth Army |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor |
(The) mill o'dreams |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Richard Edgar-Wilson, Tenor |
(A) Song of Summer |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Richard Edgar-Wilson, Tenor |
Your name |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Richard Edgar-Wilson, Tenor |
(The) Green Hills o' Somerset |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Thomas Allen, Baritone |
I heard you singing |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Thomas Allen, Baritone |
(The) fairy tales of Ireland |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Thomas Allen, Baritone |
Birdsongs at Eventide |
Eric Coates, Composer
BBC Concert Orchestra Eric Coates, Composer John Wilson, Conductor Thomas Allen, Baritone |
Author: Andrew Lamb
The marches, of which there are four, come off with an especially refreshing élan. I’m enchanted, too, with Moresque, a piece not recorded for more than 60 years, and sounding – even with one theme curiously like “Vilja” from The Merry Widow – authentically Moorish in this full-blooded performance. The inclusion of two rare suites is another plus. Four Ways has more conviction than a Slovak Radio Orchestra version (Marco Polo), and the early From the Countryside, showing Coates finding his way orchestrally, is here recorded complete for the first time.
I’m less convinced by the song settings in the composer’s orchestrations. Richard Edgar-Wilson’s voice seems to have acquired a raw edge since he recorded a CD of Coates songs with piano accompaniment for Marco Polo (4/96 – nla), and I’m inclined to prefer the Mill o’ Dreams cycle in that earlier recording. Perhaps it’s difficult to balance Coates’s vocal lines against his lush orchestrations, since even with Thomas Allen’s contributions some doubts remain. Still, Coates writes beautifully for the voice, and this collection makes valuable progress towards that imagined Coates complete edition.
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