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continents and women lies at the heart of Nuits d’Afrique

Recorded on 5-7 March 2007 at Tewkesbury Abbey

in terms of sumptuous tone and innate understanding of style

The composer Nigel Osborne characterises Coles’s fluent idiom as “happy-sad”

Cecil Coles, Gustav Holst: Piano Music Choir of Gonville & Caius College { "__shgSlider": { "id": "#slider-s-cfc309dd-f431-4eb8-b28c-a7608af0c896"SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Behind the lines of the Western Front, the young Scottish composer Cecil Coles sent his friend and mentor Gustav Holst a score, stained with mud and blood. Only one movement survived: the rest was believed destroyed by enemy action. Four months later Coles himself was killed in battle rescuing injured comrades. James Willshires groundbreaking survey of his piano music reveals a composer finding his voice in pre war