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.

1939

Concert

5th January3pmBrookhill Hall

Performers

Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Alan Morton (cello)

Programme

Coke

Cello Sonata No. 2 in C, Op. 29 (Premiere)

Coke

Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24

Coke

Piano Sonata No. 2 in G, Op. 26

Coke

Ballade for piano in C, Op. 27

Coke

Variations and Fugue for piano in D minor, Op. 21

Notes

In aid of Pinxton Church.

Source

Derby Daily Telegraph, 31 December 1938 Nottingham Journal, 6 January 1939 Coke Cello Sonata No. 2 score

Provenance

British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Chesterfield Library

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