Composer of the Week - Eric Coates - Singing for Your Supper

Eric Coates (1886-1957) Donald Macleod salutes a composer with a unique ability to match a national mood with music. For five decades Eric Coates's music seemed to pervade the national consciousness, stirring the war effort, celebrating the Dam Busters and defining some of the nation's best loved radio and television programmes. 1/5. Singing for Your Supper A revolver at the Royal Academy and a premiere at the Proms, Coates's student years proved to be startlingly memorable. BBC Television March Sydney Torch and His Orchestra Ballad for Strings East of England Orchestra Malcolm Nabarro (conductor) Four Old English Songs Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor) Eugene Asti (piano) Stonecracker John; Reuben Ranzo; A Dinder Courtship Brian Rayner Cook (baritone) Raphael Terroni (piano) The Mill o' Dreams Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor) BBC Concert Orchestra John Wilson (conductor) I Heard You Singing Thomas Allen (baritone) BBC Concert Orchestra John Wilson (conductor) Symphonic Rhapsody on I Heard You Singing and Bird Songs at Eventide London Philharmonic Barry Wordsworth (conductor) Symphonic Rhapsody on a Song by Richard Rodgers, With a Song in My Heart BBC Concert Orchestra John Wilson (conductor).