R. Sacheverell Coke Concertos at last?

[edurban]

Pianist Simon Callaghan, among other things a Coke specialist, goes into the studios July 19-22 this year with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins to make a concerto recording for Hyperion.  Can this be the much hoped-for disc of Coke 3, 4 and surviving movement from 5?  Best, David

[Alan Howe]

Could be. His diary doesn't say...
http://simoncallaghan.com/diary/

[Gareth Vaughan]

Simon tells me that it is.

[Alan Howe]

Oh, great! Thanks, Gareth.

[edurban]

Duly corrected, Gareth, and thanks for the confirmation.

David

[Gareth Vaughan]

I can report that the recording sessions went extremely well, Martyn Brabbins declaring that Simon Callaghan was one of the best prepared pianist he had worked with. Everyone very pleased. Disk scheduled for release next summer, but may be earlier in 2017 if the editing goes very smoothly. The disk will be part of the RPC series.

[Alan Howe]

Wowee! Lovely!

[edurban]

Very exciting!  Thanks for helping to make this possible, Gareth.

[Mark Thomas]

That's excellent, Gareth. Congratulations.

[Christopher]

Will definitely be buying this.  Many thanks Gareth!

[Gareth Vaughan]

Thanks for the plaudits, guys, but it was really Giles Enders and Simon who convinced Hyperion to record the disk. I just hope you like the music when you hear it.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Incidentally, you can hear Simon and Raphael Wallfisch playing the very beautiful slow movt from Coke's 2nd Cello Sonata here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pip9Z_6zkos
Whether this presages a recording of both published sonatas, I do not know - but I have sent an email to Simon asking him.

[Alan Howe]

What lovely stuff. Thank you, Gareth.

[eschiss1]

The pianist maintains another website https://rogersacheverellcoke.com/ that may be relevant too.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Simon has now posted the promotional video for the Coke concertos on You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjbVE6H_m68 - and very good it is too IMHO.