Cat No:
CDH55464
Release Date: 01 July 2014
Label: Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571154640
Genres: Classical Orchestral
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Description
Born in Scotland in 1888, Cecil Coles studied composition at Edinburgh University, the London College of Music, and Morley College where he befriended Gustav Holst. He furthered his studies in Stuttgart, and was later appointed assistant conductor at the Stuttgart Royal Opera House. Forced to return to England before the outbreak of the First World War, he signed up for overseas service, and in 1915 was sent to the trenches in France. He continued to compose, including the particularly poignant work Behind the lines (dated on the manuscript ‘Feb 4th 1918, In the Field’). The first surviving movement provides a sketch of a northern French pastoral landscape, the second a heroic picture of a military funeral procession. Some two months later, aged just 29, the life of this extraordinarily gifted young musician was extinguished.
Coles was killed near the Somme on 26 April 1918 during a heroic attempt to rescue some wounded comrades. He was one of the most talented of the composers who lost their lives in the First World War, yet few remember him now. Thanks to the persistence and research of his daughter Penny Catherine Coles, his manuscripts, some still embedded with shrapnel, have been painstakingly pieced together helping to create this first commercial recording of these, indeed any of his compositions. In the words of the conductor, ‘this is a most exciting project, musically, socially and historically’.
Travelling on a journey somewhere between Mendelssohn and Bruckner or Richard Strauss via Brahms, the music is powerful, beautiful, and full of pathos and emotional intensity, performed here by the BBCSSO under Martyn Brabbins as expressively and passionately as it was composed. -
Tracklisting
- 1. <b>Overture The Comedy of Errors</b> [11'04] - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- 2. <b>Fra Giacomo[13'22] - Paul Whelan/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- 3. <b>Scherzo in A minor [8'14] - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- 4. <b>Four Verlaine Songs |</b> Fantastic in appearance [1'29] - Sarah Fox/BBC Scottish Sym
- 5. <b>Four Verlaine Songs |</b> A slumber vast and black [2'55] - Sarah Fox/BBC Scottish Sy
- 6. <b>Four Verlaine Songs |</b> Pastoral Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit [1'14] - Sarah Fox
- 7. <b>Four Verlaine Songs |</b> Lets dance the jig [2'49] - Sarah Fox/BBC Scottish Symphony
- 8. <b>From the Scottish Highlands |</b> Prelude | Presto scherzoso Allegro maestoso [3'10]
- 9. <b>From the Scottish Highlands |</b> Idyll Love scene | Larghetto [3'11] - BBC Scottish
- 10. <b>From the Scottish Highlands |</b> Lament | Adagio non troppo e ben marcato [6'11] - B
- 11. <b>Behind the lines |</b> Estaminet de Carrefour [3'20] - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestr
- 12. <b>Behind the lines |</b> Cortège [5'37] - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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A monk's life
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