Concert
8th March7.30pmCentral Hall, Derby
Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Barbara Welby (soprano)
Alan Morton (cello)
Raymond Mosley (violin) (some sources say Eric Eaden)
Programme
Coke
15 Variations & Finale in C minor, Op. 37
Coke
Elegiac Trio for piano, violin and cello, Op. 32
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24
Coke
Songs (words by Humbert Wolfe)
Coke
24 Preludes
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 29
Notes
Barbara Welby was too ill to perform. A later article about Coke (Western Daily Press, 10 January 1955) says the Elegiac Trio was a first performance. The Derbyshire Advertiser citation is dated only to March 1940, and the concert is also recorded in Coke's own performance lists in the front cover of the manuscript of the Variations Op. 37 and in the cover of the manuscript of the Preludes Op. 33/34.
Source
Derby Daily Telegraph, 7 March 1940
Derby Daily Telegraph, 9 March 1940
Derby Daily Telegraph, 11 March 1940
A couple of articles, 15 March 1940
Bristol Paper?, 15 March 1940
Nottingham Guardian, 9 March 1940
Derby Daily Telegraph, 16 March 1940
Derbyshire Advertiser
Western Daily Press, 15 March 1940
Derby Daily Telegraph, 2 December 1939
Western Daily Press Bristol, 10 January 1955
Provenance
British Newspaper Archive, Manuscript front cover, Scrapbook