{"id":2287,"date":"2021-03-13T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:07:17","slug":"back-in-london-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/back-in-london-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in London Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were in London a couple of days ago with the Cockaigne Overture and we return there today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The music of Eric Coates is often &#8216;relegated&#8217; to a &#8220;light classics&#8221; league that is somewhat frowned upon by some &#8216;serious&#8217; musicians. It was, however, very much a part of my school concerts and the like. I was going to share the &#8220;London Suite&#8221; today &#8211; unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t find a recording of the whole suite on YouTube that did the music justice.  (there is also a &#8220;London Again Suite&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So here are the three movements in a reasonably modern recording (many of the existing recordings rather show their age \ud83d\ude03).<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/09ocs2k1-a4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Coates : London Suite &#8211; Covent Garden<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09ocs2k1-a4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-nSCAFDhwDg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Coates : London Suite &#8211; Westminster<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-nSCAFDhwDg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aQ3qmJPgx50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Coates : London Suite &#8211; Knightsbridge<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aQ3qmJPgx50\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in London a couple of days ago with the Cockaigne Overture and we return there today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}