Coates: Springtime Suite / Four Ways Suite / Saxo-Rhapsody
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ERIC COATES
Coates: Springtime Suite / Four Ways Suite / Saxo-Rhapsody
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Penny, with Kenneth Edge (Saxophone)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 24 January 2022
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Eric Coates was a master of refined and beautiful melodies, making him a household name during the golden years of British light music in the first half of the 20th century. The Four Ways Suite takes us to all four points of the compass, including exotic China and the jazz rhythms of America, while Springtime evokes both sweeping optimism and soulful memories of a lost age. The virtuoso Saxo-Rhapsody is one of the era's major saxophone works, and Sleepy Lagoon remains famous as the signature tune to BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs. High Flight March was to be Coates' last composition.
"The sound quality of this disc is excellent. The playing is enthusiastic and never patronising. The original 1993 liner notes by Michael Ponder are most helpful. The disc introduces repertoire a little beyond the better-known potboilers." MusicWeb
Tracks:
By the Sleepy Lagoon
Springtime Suite
Saxo-Rhapsody
Footlights Waltz
Four Ways Suite
The Eighth Army March
Lazy Night
Last Love
High Flight March
