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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.

1940

Concert

1st DecemberAfternoonBrookhill Hall

Performers
Barbara Welby (soprano) Alan Morton (cello) A L Winfield (oboe) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Coke
Sacred Concerto for soprano, cello, piano and oboe in A minor, Op. 35
Coke
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G, Op. 26
Coke
Variations and Fugue for piano in D minor, Op. 21
Coke
Berceuse for piano
Coke
Poem for cello, piano and small orchestra, Op. 36
Coke
The Cenci, Op. 41 (opera in three acts)
Coke
Four Songs
Coke
The Cenci, Op. 41 (opera in three acts)
Source
Notts Journal, 2 December 1940 Nottingham Guardian, 2 December 1940 The Reporter (Mansfield), 6 December 1940 Score of Poem for cello and piano with orchestra in Derbyshire Record Office Coke Poem score Coke Sacred Concerto score
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), Derbyshire Record Office, Chesterfield Library

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