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.

1951

Concert

6th October3pmWigmore Hall

Performers

Sela Trau (cello) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)

Programme

Coke

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

Coke

Cello Sonata No. 2 in C, Op. 29

Coke

Cello Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 (London Premiere)

Source

Wigmore Hall Daily Telegraph, 8 October 1951 The Stage, 11 October 1951 The Stage, 11 October 1951 Coke Cello Sonata No.3 score

Provenance

Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Chesterfield Library

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