[78-L] Albert Coates

[DAVID BURNHAM]

On 1/6/2011 4:36 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
> I have a 11 1/2" British Pathe from about 1914 of two highly abridged 
>movements 
>from the Tchaikovsky 6th (the first recs. of any part of the work) by the 
Pathe 
>Symphony Orchestra, presumably under Lillian Bryant, and the speed at score 
>pitch is 68 rpm -- honest.? I wondered because when I first got the disc I put 
>it on at 90 and it was unrecognizeable gobbledygook,

No, you thought it was early Albert Coates.


dl

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I know Albert Coates is considered one of the fastest conductors of the 78 era, 
but nothing could be faster than Leo Blech's recording of Schubert's Great C 
Major, (variously No. 7, 8 or 9).  Also, strangely, the fastest performance I've 
ever heard of the last movement of Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is by the 
notoriously slow conductor, Sergiu Celebedache.

db