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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.

1958

Concert

20th SeptemberBrookhill Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Jan Sedivka (violin) June Chambers (soprano)
Programme
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Coke
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 46
Coke
Violin Sonata No. 2 in B♭ minor, Op. 55 (Premiere (first movement))
Coke
Vocal Concerto No. 1, Op. 25
Coke
Three Songs
Notes
The programme also listed Songs by Handel, Schumann & Rachmaninoff without naming the pieces. The concert is recorded only in Coke's performance list in the front cover of the manuscript of Variations Op. 37.
Source
Coke's performance list in the front cover of the manuscript of Variations Op. 37
Provenance
Manuscript front cover, Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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