Coates - The Definitive Eric Coates: Coates conducts Coates
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Label: Lyrita
Cat No: REAM2145
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 7
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 6th June 2025
Contents
Works
A Song of LoyaltyBird Songs at Eventide
By the Sleepy Lagoon
By the Tamarisk: Intermezzo
Calling all Workers
Cinderella: An Orchestral Phantasy
Dancing Nights: Concert valse
Fanfare no.1
Fanfare no.2
Footlights: Concert Valse
For Your Delight: Serenade
Four Ways Suite
From Meadow to Mayfair: Suite
From the Country Side: Suite 1
High Flight: March
Holborn (March)
I heard you singing
Impressions of a Princess: Intermezzo
I pitch my lonely caravan at night
I sing to you
Joyous Youth Suite
Last Love: Romance
Lazy Night
Light Syncopated Pieces (2)
London Again Suite
London Bridge: March
London Calling: March
London Suite
Miniature Suite
Mirage: Romance
Moresque Dance: Interlude
Music Everywhere 'Rediffusion March'
Over to You
Salute the soldier
Saxo-Rhapsody
Sound and Vision: The ATV Television March
South Wales and West: Television March
Springtime Suite
Summer Afternoon: Idyll
Summer Days Suite
Sweet Seventeen
Television March
The Dam Busters March
The Eighth Army March
The Four Centuries: Suite
The Jester at the Wedding
» no.1 The Princess arrives: March
» no.4 Dance of the Orange Blossoms
The Merrymakers: OvertureThe Selfish Giant: An Orchestral Phantasy
The Seven Seas: March
The Three Bears: An Orchestral Phantasy
The Three Elizabeths Suite
The Three Men: Suite
Under the Stars
With a Song in my Heart: Symphonic Rhapsody after Richard Rodgers
Wood Nymphs
Artists
The Aeolian OrchestraCedric Sharpe Sextet
Central Band of the Royal Air Force
Concert Orchestra
Court Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates Orchestra
Jack Hylton Band
Jack Payne Orchestra
Light Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Melodi Light Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New Concert Orchestra
New Light Symphony Orchestra
New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra of London
The Peerless Orchestra
Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra
RAF Central Orchestra
Sidney Torch Orchestra
Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Eric CoatesJack Hylton
Ole Jensen
Jack Leon
Joseph Lewis
OP O’Donnell
Clarence Raybould
AE Sims
Sidney Torch
Charles Williams
Works
A Song of LoyaltyBird Songs at Eventide
By the Sleepy Lagoon
By the Tamarisk: Intermezzo
Calling all Workers
Cinderella: An Orchestral Phantasy
Dancing Nights: Concert valse
Fanfare no.1
Fanfare no.2
Footlights: Concert Valse
For Your Delight: Serenade
Four Ways Suite
From Meadow to Mayfair: Suite
From the Country Side: Suite 1
High Flight: March
Holborn (March)
I heard you singing
Impressions of a Princess: Intermezzo
I pitch my lonely caravan at night
I sing to you
Joyous Youth Suite
Last Love: Romance
Lazy Night
Light Syncopated Pieces (2)
London Again Suite
London Bridge: March
London Calling: March
London Suite
Miniature Suite
Mirage: Romance
Moresque Dance: Interlude
Music Everywhere 'Rediffusion March'
Over to You
Salute the soldier
Saxo-Rhapsody
Sound and Vision: The ATV Television March
South Wales and West: Television March
Springtime Suite
Summer Afternoon: Idyll
Summer Days Suite
Sweet Seventeen
Television March
The Dam Busters March
The Eighth Army March
The Four Centuries: Suite
The Jester at the Wedding
» no.1 The Princess arrives: March
» no.4 Dance of the Orange Blossoms
The Merrymakers: OvertureThe Selfish Giant: An Orchestral Phantasy
The Seven Seas: March
The Three Bears: An Orchestral Phantasy
The Three Elizabeths Suite
The Three Men: Suite
Under the Stars
With a Song in my Heart: Symphonic Rhapsody after Richard Rodgers
Wood Nymphs
Artists
The Aeolian OrchestraCedric Sharpe Sextet
Central Band of the Royal Air Force
Concert Orchestra
Court Symphony Orchestra
Eric Coates Orchestra
Jack Hylton Band
Jack Payne Orchestra
Light Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Melodi Light Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New Concert Orchestra
New Light Symphony Orchestra
New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra of London
The Peerless Orchestra
Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra
RAF Central Orchestra
Sidney Torch Orchestra
Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Eric CoatesJack Hylton
Ole Jensen
Jack Leon
Joseph Lewis
OP O’Donnell
Clarence Raybould
AE Sims
Sidney Torch
Charles Williams
About
‘I had been contemplating a “Definitive” Eric Coates collection for some time but it was the discovery of Michael Payne’s Ph.D. Thesis for Durham University “The Man Who Writes the Tunes” that encouraged me to start serious work on it. Michael has since turned this thesis into the definitive book on Coates, “The Life and Music of Eric Coates” published by Ashgate in 2012, and I was delighted when he agreed to write the booklet notes.
‘The track order: My original concept was to present the recordings in strict chronological order but it became apparent that, although this would be ideal for those wishing to analyse and study Coates’ work, some pieces would appear twice on the same CD which would be frustrating for the normal listener. The approach therefore has been to make each disc a varied and enjoyable selection of his work.
‘The acoustic recordings, which I imagine most people will not listen to very often, are grouped at the end of CD 6. Opinions differ widely on how restoration and remastering of acoustic recordings should be done. My aim is to reveal as much detail as possible, some of which would not have been heard when played on a contemporary gramophone. This probably will not satisfy the purists but is, I think, the best approach for a project such as this.
‘Although this collection claims to include every commercial recording Coates made, two are missing. One source says that Covent Garden and Westminster, from The London Suite, recorded in 1933 and issued on Columbia DX 470 (Matrix number CAX 6748-1) were re-recorded in May 1947 with a new matrix number (CAX 6748-2) and issued the following month, paired with the original pressing of Knightsbridge using the same catalogue number. Careful listening and comparison of the wave forms shows that they are virtually identical. It is very unlikely that such similarities could occur in recordings made 14 years apart and only the first is included in this collection.
‘My sincere thanks are due to collector friends in Australia, Britain, America and Canada without whose generous help this collection would not have been possible.’
Includes an extended essay by Michael Payne
Restoration and remastering by Alan Bunting
‘The track order: My original concept was to present the recordings in strict chronological order but it became apparent that, although this would be ideal for those wishing to analyse and study Coates’ work, some pieces would appear twice on the same CD which would be frustrating for the normal listener. The approach therefore has been to make each disc a varied and enjoyable selection of his work.
‘The acoustic recordings, which I imagine most people will not listen to very often, are grouped at the end of CD 6. Opinions differ widely on how restoration and remastering of acoustic recordings should be done. My aim is to reveal as much detail as possible, some of which would not have been heard when played on a contemporary gramophone. This probably will not satisfy the purists but is, I think, the best approach for a project such as this.
‘Although this collection claims to include every commercial recording Coates made, two are missing. One source says that Covent Garden and Westminster, from The London Suite, recorded in 1933 and issued on Columbia DX 470 (Matrix number CAX 6748-1) were re-recorded in May 1947 with a new matrix number (CAX 6748-2) and issued the following month, paired with the original pressing of Knightsbridge using the same catalogue number. Careful listening and comparison of the wave forms shows that they are virtually identical. It is very unlikely that such similarities could occur in recordings made 14 years apart and only the first is included in this collection.
‘My sincere thanks are due to collector friends in Australia, Britain, America and Canada without whose generous help this collection would not have been possible.’
– Alan Bunting
Includes an extended essay by Michael Payne
Restoration and remastering by Alan Bunting
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