Maurice Cole (pianist) the records are well worth trying by those who like hefty playing... ...In the slow movement (of the Greig piano concerto) the opening orchestral section is omitted and the movement is taken a little faster than the marked speed. The pianist is too urgent in this. It needs stroking. Some of his notes clang a trifle more than I like." "Reginald Paul's British contemporary Maurice Cole made a number of highly impressive discs for Broadcast – I think especially of his Chopin, Rachmaninov and the Grieg Concerto with the same Metropolitan band (and Stanley Chapple) that accompanies Reginald Paul. He
Charles-Maurice Descombes Charles-Maurice Descombes Charles-Maurice Descombes, real name Jean Charles François Maurice, (26 March 1782 – 7 September 1869) was a 19th-century French playwright, theatre critic and writer. François Guizot's private secretary, literary critic, founder, owner, printer, chief editor and director of the "Le Camp-volant" (1819-1820), the "Journal des théâtres, de la littérature et des arts" (1820-1823), the "Le Coureur des spectacles" (1842-1849), he was managing editor of the "Courrier des théâtres, de la littérature, des arts, des modes" from 12 April 1823 to 14 May 1842 and of the "Nouvelles des théâtres, de la littérature et des arts" from 13 July