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 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html