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Beware deceptive description

The Marsdens | Near Yosemite | 07/11/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Please note and be forewarned: the composer AS WELL AS performer(s) shown listed for this release is Eric Coates. I eagerly purchased it as a great many recordings from the 30's - 50's of Coates conducting his own music have been released on CD as of late. This recording, however, is of Coates' orchestral music arranged for band and actually performed by The Royal Yeomanry Band. The performances and the recording are certainly nowhere near as distinguished as the recent Naxos release of Coates' music for band (part one.) Nowhere is recording info divulged; it sounds ADD if not AAD. Scarcely advisable even as a curiosity; certainly not the find it would have been had it been Coates' own performances as described."