Steve Schwartz responds to Bob Sauberly:

>> Albert Coates was an arranger of various pieces in most genres as teaching
>> items.  He simplifies the technique while retaining the dynamics and
>> basic harmonics of pieces.  That's the only Coates I know about who might
>> fill the bill here.
>
>>From Grove:
>
>Albert Coates
>
>(b St Petersburg, 11/23 April 1882; d Milnerton, nr Cape Town, 11 Dec
>1953).

Coates also conducted what I believe may have been the first electrical
recording of the Eroica, 1926 and so early in the electrical era that
the bass lines are still being played (or reinforced) by a tuba. His
tempos are also astonishingly fast - faster, indeed, than any of the
HIPsters I've heard (Norrington, Hogwood, Gardiner, Brueggen, Savall).

He is probably best-remembered by music lovers as the man who hogged the
rehearsal time so that Elgar did not have enough for the premiere of his
cello concerto.  As a direct result (certainly according to Lady Elgar,
who called Coates "that pig") the premiere was not a success.

deryk
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