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This is every performance of Coke's music that has so far been traced, from his schooldays at Eton in 1929 to the present, assembled from printed programmes, press notices, Radio Times billings, his mother's household accounts and the composer's own annotations. It is not a complete record and it cannot be: he was played most often in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, sometimes in a converted stable at his own house, and much of that went unreported. There is a gap of twenty-five years between 1987 and 2012 in which exactly one performance has been found. If you know of a concert that is missing, or have a programme, a cutting or a memory of hearing this music, please do get in touch.

1939

Concert

13th DecemberAfternoonBath Pump Room

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Alan Morton (cello) Bridget Tallents (contralto)
Programme
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 2 in C, Op. 29
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24
Coke
Songs (set by Humbert Wolfe)
Notes
The report names the same cello work twice, as 'Sonatina for cello and piano' and again as 'Sonatina Op. 24'; both are the First Cello Sonata, op. 24, taken here as a single performance. Two Western Daily Press dates survive, 24 November and 8 December 1939, and which article is which is not recorded.
Source
Western Daily Press
Provenance
British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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