Classical Recordings
Mike and Linda Coates
Voice/Guitar
Classical guitar forms the foundation of the set of four seasonal recordings released by "Mike & Linda Coates and Friends" on Barking Dog Records: The Summer Air, Fall in Love, Winter's Night and An Early Spring. Often categorized as "classical crossover," "light classical" or "classical/pop," the music ranges from an Elizabethan lute song or traditional carol to a King Crimson ballad or Coates original, all united by classical guitar, lush vocals and delicate acoustic arrangements.
Fall In Love
Mike & Linda Coates and Friends
1 Love in Fall / Mike & Linda Coates
2 Plaisir d’Amour / Giovanni Martini
3 Because / The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney
4 A Whiter Shade of Pale / Procol Harum: Brooker; Reid
5 Romance from Rosamunde / Franz Schubert
6 C’est la vie / ELP: Lake; Sinfield
Romantic Suite for Classical Guitar / transc. & arr. by Mike Coates
7 Liebestraum / Franz Liszt
8 Romance / Robert Schumann
9 Prelude No. 7 in A Major, Op. 28 / Frédéric Chopin
10 Theme from Symphony No. 6 “The Pathetique” / P. I. Tchaikovsky
11 Adieu (Nach Osten) / A. H. von Weyrauch (orig. attributed to Franz Schubert)
12 Träumerei / Robert Schumann
13 Meditation on a theme from Thaïs / Jules Massenet
14 A Whiter Shade of Pale, reprise
Hidden track: Come Again! / John Dowland
1996
Winter's Night
Mike & Linda Coates and Friends
1 In the Bleak Midwinter / Rossetti; Holst
2 Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella / 17th c. Provençal
3 Jolly Good Ale and Old / (words c. 1480)
4 Ave Maria / Gounod; J. S. Bach
5 Good King Wenceslas / (trad.)
6 Pastorale, Op. 149 / Mauro Giuliani
7 Nana (Lullaby) / Manuel de Falla
8 Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring / J. S. Bach
9 Each Winter as the Year Grows Older / W. & A. Gay, 1969, Congregational Hymn
10 Now Winter Nights Enlarge / Thomas Campian
11 Wassail, Wassail / (ancient English)
12 A Slumber Song of the Madonna / Noyes; Head
13 - 15 Concerto in D Major, RV 93 / Antonio Vivaldi
I. Allegro giusto
II. Largo
III. Allegro
16 I Believe in Father Christmas / ELP: Greg Lake
1995
An Early Spring
Mike & Linda Coates and Friends
1 Here Comes the Sun / The Beatles: George Harrison
2 The Salley Gardens / (Irish folk song)
3 Summer Is A-Coming In / (anon.)
4 The Seeds of Love (Sommerset folk song)
5 “Spring” from The Four Seasons / Antonio Vivaldi
6 Hansa / M. Coates
7 Have You Seen But A White Lilly Grow / (anon.); Ben Jonson
8 Now Is the Month of Maying / Thomas Morley
9 The Lowest Trees Have Tops / (anon.); L. Coates
10 Moonchild / King Crimson: Pete Sinfield
11 It Was a Lover and His Lass / Shakespeare; Morley
12 April Is In My Mistress’ Face / Thomas Morley
13 Branle Gay (Renaissance dance) / (anon.)
14 The Water Is Wide (Waly Waly) / (Sommerset folk song)
15 Summer Is A-Coming In / Canarios / (anon.); Gaspar Sanz
1996
The Summer Air
Mike & Linda Coates and Friends
1 The Summer Air / Mike & Linda Coates
2 Sun King / The Beatles
3 It’s a Beautiful Morning / The Rascals
4 Blackbird / The Beatles
5 Hot Fun in the Summertime / Sly & the Family Stone
6 Summer in the City / Lovin’ Spoonful
7 Summer Breeze / Seals & Crofts
8 Summer’s Almost Gone / The Doors
9 Aja / Steely Dan
10 Indian Summer / The Doors
11 Suite: A Fawn on the Lawn / Debussy; Orff
12 The Summer Knows / Michel Legrand
13 The Bar by the Side of the Road / R. E. Howard; M. Coates
14 The Last Rose of Summer / (trad. Irish)
1998
Harris-Coates Duo
Flute/Guitar
The Harris-Coates duo performed many concerts and recitals in their nearly twenty-year collaboration. Both taught at Moorhead State University, MN and Concordia College, MN. Mike is now at North Dakota State University. Featured invitational performances included National Flute conventions in Phoenix (1998), Dallas (2001), and San Diego (2005), a College Music Society Convention in Denver
(1999), and Tennessee Technological University in the mid 1990s. The duo recorded three CDs on Barking Dog Records. Several world premieres were included on those CDs and those performances.
Reverie
Harris-Coates Duo
1 Pièce en forme de habanera / Maurice Ravel
2 Bordel 1900 from Histoire du Tango / Astor Piazzolla
Trois Mouvements Perpétuels / Francois Poulenc
3 Assez modéré
4 Très modéré
5 Alerte
6 Tempo di Siciliana from Sonatina, Op. 205 / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
7 Entr’acte / Jacques Ibert
Deux Danses / Jindřich Feld
8 Danse Lyrique
9 Danse Barbare
10 Kokopeli (for solo flute) / Katherine Hoover
11 - 12 Berceuse et Serenade / Eugéne Bozza
Deux Arias / Francis Kleynjans
13 Aria No. 1
14 Aria No. 2
Mountain Songs / Robert Beaser
15 The House Carpenter
16 Cindy
1997
Dances in the Madhouse
Harris-Coates Duo
Dances in the Madhouse / David Leisner
1 Tango Solitaire
2 Waltz for the Old Folks
3 Ballad for the Lonely
4 Samba!
Two Preludes / Claude Debussy
5 La fille aux cheveux de lin
6 Bruyères
Sonatina Op. 205 / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
7 Allegretto grazioso
8 Tempo di Siciliana
9 Scherzo-Rondo
10 Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 / Heitor Villa-Lobos
11 Hymn of Pan for Solo Flute / Charles DeLaney
12 Trio from L’Enfance du Christ / Hector Berlioz
Histoire du Tango Astor / Piazzolla
13 Bordel 1900
14 Café 1930
15 Night Club 1960
16 Concert d’aujourd’hui
2000
The White Peacock
Harris-Coates Duo
1 Mosaic / Andrea Stern
Tre Divertimenti, Op. 68 / Salvador Brotons
2 Molto allegro
3 Adagio lamentoso
4 Con fuoco
5 The White Peacock / Charles T. Griffes (arr. M. Coates)
6 Serenade to Eve, After Rodin / Daniel Dorff
Serenata al Alba del Dia / Joaquin Rodrigo
7 Andante moderato
8 Allegro
Claude Debussy
9 Le Petit Berger
10 Le Petit Negre
Quatre Facettes / Jean-Michel Damase
11 Allegretto
12 Andante
13 Allegro scherzando
14 Presto
2002
Tango Solitaire:
I. from
Dances in the Madhouse/ David Leisner
Kiwanis
Flute/Guitar track
The Fargo Kiwanis Club Club CD project grew out of chairperson Margie Bailly’s research concerning “The Mozart Effect.” 3,000 copies were given to MeritCare and Innovis hospitals in Fargo to distribute as part of the kit given to new parents of all babies born in Fargo in the year 2004. The album was produced by Mike and Linda Coates and involved all premiere area musicians. Included in the cast are Jay Hershberger, Peter Halverson, The Concordia Woodwind Quintet, The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, and the Harris-Coates Duo.
Ricardo Visus tenor
Voice/Guitar
Ricardo Visus was a colleague and dear friend of Mike and Linda Coates during the 1980s and early ‘90s at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, MN. He was born in Navarra, Spain and began his musical studies at the Conservatorio Pablo Sarasate in Pamplona, Spain. He continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Madrid, Spain, and in 1963 he won the international Scholarship "Funda-
cion Juan March" to study in Milan, Italy. In 1965 he was awarded the Gold Medal at the J.B. Viotti International Awards in Vercelli, Italy, competing against more than 100 performers from 22 countries.
Ricardo Visus has sung the principal operas of the Italian and Spanish repertoire in performances in Italy, Spain, Argentina and the United States. He was a leading tenor during one year with the Company Mendoza LaSalle and two years with the Spanish National Lyric Company. In 1972, Ricardo Visus came to the United States and joined the music faculty of Moorhead State University, where he
taught voice and directed the opera program.
In 1994, Ricardo and Mike (along with pianist Terrie Manno) recorded a CD of Spanish and South American songs featuring music of composers including Villa-Lobos, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Obradors, Sandoval, de Falla, Rodrigo, and Turina, as a parting gift to celebrate Ricardo’s retirement and return to Spain.