Concerts

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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.

1968

Concert

18th JulyPavilion Gardens, Buxton

Performers

Peter Schmalfuss

Programme

Coke

Ballade for piano in C, Op. 27

Notes

The performance is recorded as an annotation on the score of the Ballade op. 27 rather than in any publication. It reads in full: 'played at BUXTON (Pavilion Gardens) by PETER SCHMALFUSS (at a piano recital, during a Week of Music) 18 July 1968'.

Source

Coke's annotation inside the front cover of the autograph of the Ballade op. 27 — Coke0765

Provenance

Simon Callaghan's score collection

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