Singing for Your Supper
Eric Coates (1886-1957): 1/5. Singing for Your Supper: A revolver at the Royal Academy and a premiere at the Proms, Coates's student years proved to be startlingly memorable.
Eric Coates (1886-1957)
Donald Macleod salutes a composer with a unique ability to match a national mood with music. For five decades Eric Coates's music seemed to pervade the national consciousness, stirring the war effort, celebrating the Dam Busters and defining some of the nation's best loved radio and television programmes.
1/5. Singing for Your Supper
A revolver at the Royal Academy and a premiere at the Proms, Coates's student years proved to be startlingly memorable.
大象传媒 Television March
Sydney Torch and His Orchestra
Ballad for Strings
East of England Orchestra
Malcolm Nabarro (conductor)
Four Old English Songs
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
Eugene Asti (piano)
Stonecracker John; Reuben Ranzo; A Dinder Courtship
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
Raphael Terroni (piano)
The Mill o' Dreams
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
I Heard You Singing
Thomas Allen (baritone)
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Symphonic Rhapsody on I Heard You Singing and Bird Songs at Eventide
London Philharmonic
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
Symphonic Rhapsody on a Song by Richard Rodgers, With a Song in My Heart
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).
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