Sacheverell Coke

[Gareth Vaughan]

I think you would both find the 3rd PC more approachable. I don't think Coke's music is an easy ride - but I believe it repays study. I firmly believe he is a major voice among British composers. And one could not find a better champion than Simon Callaghan. (Doubtless you will have noticed the allusion in the opening them to Rachmaninov's 3rd PC.)

[Gareth Vaughan]

That's three composers- Brian, Goldschmidt, Coke- who've set The Cenci to music. That I can think of.

Rozycki did an opera too - Beatrix Cenci, Op. 53

[badams@nl.rogers.com]

Thanks for that, Gareth.  Is there any sign of anyone taking an interest in the second symphony?

Brian

[eschiss1]

Ah. Thanks. And I see in Worldcat another by a very well-known Argentinian modern composer, his Op.38 from 1971 (and the result when one looks for the name in Wikipedia with no qualifiers, I see, and maybe some of the others are just called "The Cenci" after the original 1819 play (or "Beatrice Cenci" like Guido Pannain's opera.)

Anyhow. Sorry.

Was the Goossens-conducted recording of Coke's Cenci recorded by anyone (privately etc)?