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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.

1936

Concert

3rd OctoberAfternoonBrookhill Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Charles Lynch (piano) Alan Morton (cello)
Programme
Coke
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G, Op. 26
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24
Rachmaninoff
Piano Sonata No.1 (first English performance)
Notes
In aid of Derbyshire Women's Hospital.
Source
Belper News, 9 October 1936 Derby Daily Telegraph, 1 October 1936 Gramophone Nottingham Journal & Express, 5 October 1936 Concert Programme, 5 October 1936
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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