Coates: Orchestral Works Vol.2 [Incls 'London Bridge - March' & 'The Enchanted Garden - ballet']

 
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ERIC COATES
Coates: Orchestral Works Vol.2 [Incls 'London Bridge - March' & 'The Enchanted Garden - ballet']
BBC Philharmonic (orchestra); John Wilson (conductor)

[ Chandos / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 1 October 2020

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For the second volume of the music of Eric Coates, John Wilson has built his programme around three contrasting 'major' works. The Suite Summer Days was premiered in October 1919, shortly after Henry Wood had fired Coates from his position as lead viola in the Queen's Hall Orchestra. An immediate hit, the suite received rave reviews and many more performances. It was recorded in 1926, Sir Edward Elgar telling Coates that he had played it so often that he had worn out the disc!

The Selfish Giant, from 1925, based on Oscar Wilde's story, was the first in a series of highly successful musical retellings of fairy tales.

The Enchanted Garden originated in a commission from the Swedish Broadcasting Company. Although he described The Enchanted Garden as a ballet, Coates conceived it principally as a concert work. Composed in June and July 1938, it was premiered in a BBC radio broadcast in November that year, immediately before Coates took it on tour to Stockholm.

Of the other, shorter pieces on the album, Calling All Workers is arguably Coates's best-known work, composed in the summer of 1940 and dedicated 'to all who work'. The march was adopted by the BBC as the signature tune for their new daily radio show 'Music While You Work', and was heard twice daily for twenty-seven years - clocking up more than 16,000 broadcast performances.

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic
Yuri Torchinsky leader
Conductor: John Wilson

Tracks:

1. London Bridge [4:07] - March
To Eric Maschwitz
Quick March Tempo - Allegro

2. The Selfish Giant (1925) [9:38] - A Phantasy for Orchestra
Edited by John Wilson
Lento - Andante molto - Allegro agitato - Andante - Moderato - Allegro vivace - Allegro moderato - Poco più mosso - Broadly

3. Wood Nymphs (1917) [3:21] - Valsette
Introduction. Allegro - Tempo di Valse - Coda

The Enchanted Garden (1938) [18:50] - A Ballet
To Phyl
4. Maestoso - Andante moderato - Poco meno mosso [2:38]
5. Allegro - Più mosso - Poco meno mosso - Moderato - [2:51]
6. Tempo I (Maestoso) - Andante moderato - Tempo di Valse [2:48]
7. Allegretto - Allegro molto - Meno mosso - Allegretto - Poco più mosso [2:37]
8. Allegro molto - Molto meno mosso - Grandioso -[2:05]

9. A tempo I (Maestoso) - Allegro - Allegro molto - Presto - Tempo I (Maestoso) [3:19]
10. Andante moderato - Meno mosso - Calando [2:29]

11. For Your Delight (1937) [3:41] - Serenade
To my friend Burt Godsmark
Allegretto - Poco più mosso - Tempo I - Poco meno mosso

Summer Days (1919) [10:55] - Suite
To my friend Alick Maclean
Edited by John Wilson
12. I In a Country Lane. Allegretto [2:46]
13. II On the Edge of the Lake (Isla of the Waters). [4:02] Andante moderato - Poco animato - Allargando - Tempo I. Grandioso - Meno mosso
14. III At the Dane. [4:03] Introduction. Andante - Valse. [4:03] Allegro - Giocoso - Tranquillo - Con grazia - Tranquillo - Animato - Tempo I - Presto
15. Lazy Night (1931) [2:46] - Valse romance
Edited by John Wilson
Tempo di Valse lento - Poco più mosso - Tempo I - Calando

16. Calling All Workers (1940) [3:05] - March
Edited by John Wilson
Dedicated to All Who Work
'To go to one's work with a glad heart and to do that work with Earnestness and Goodwill'
Quick March Tempo - Poco rallentando - Poco maestoso - Maestoso - Animato

Total time: 56:16