Eric Coates conducts Eric Coates: The London Suites, Three Elizabeths Four, Centuries

Eric Coates conducts Eric Coates: The London Suites, Three Elizabeths Four, Centuries

HTGCD222 – 5013993889991

Eric Coates, the doyen of British Light Music, conducts a selection of his most popular works including By the sleepy lagoon, immortalised as the theme tune to Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Also included are his celebrated London Suites and his royal portrait, The Three Elizabeths.

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Description

    London Suite

  1. Covent garden – Tarantelle
  2. Westminster – Meditation
  3. Knightsbridge – March

    4. London Again Suite

  4. Oxford Street – March
  5. Langham Place – Elegy
  6. Mayfair – Valse

    7. The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra, Eric Coates
    Recording first published 1953

    The Three Elizabeths – Suite

  7. Elizabeth Tudor
  8. Elizabeth Glamis – The Queen Mother
  9. Queen Elizabeth

    10. New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eric Coates
    Recorded in 1953

    Four Centuries – Suite

  10. Prelude and Hornpipe (17th Century)
  11. Pavane and Tambourin (18th Century)
  12. Valse (19th Century)
  13. Rhythm (20th Century)

    14. New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eric Coates
    Recorded in 1953

  14. Three Bears – A Phantasy

    15. New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eric Coates
    Recorded in 1949

  15. By the sleepy lagoon – Valse Serenade

    16. Symphony Orchestra, Eric Coates
    Recorded in 1940

Reviews

  1. admin –

    ‘Coates was one of the supreme masters of ‘light’ music… this reissue is especially valuable… the transfers dubbed from LP have been superbly done.’
    International Record Review, November 2012

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