Frederick Delius: Topics

Updated: Dec 19, 1999

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Sir John conducts "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" on VPO at Live! (Sunday, December 19, 1999)
Glorious John • Sir John Barbirolli (1899 - 1970)
Dutton Laboratories, CDSJB 1999, 1999.
- Delius, The Walk to the Paradise Garden Wiener Philharmoniker, Aug 20, 1947, live recorded in the Festspielhaus, Salzburg.
From cello play in his childhood to Bach with Hallé Orchester. also including, rehearsal sequence on Berlioz : Damnation of Faust and interview. It is GRAET disk from The Barbirolli Society.
A 70th birthday tribute to Eric Fenby of "A Delius Companion" (Monday, November 22, 1999)
- Christopher Redwood, ed., A Delius Companion John Calder, 1976, 1980.
Paperback edition. ISBN 0 7145 3826 4
Constant Lambert conducts Delius (Monday, October 25, 1999)
Composer, arranger, conductor, controversial critic, Constant Lambert was a polymatic colossus of 20th century British Music. The recordings on this first disc illustrating his Protean qualities show his considerable abilities as a conductor as well as being of important and delightful music.
Constant Lambert - Volume I - conductor Pearl, GEM 0058, 1999
1. On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring: LPO, Oct, 1938
2. Hassan - Intermezzo and Serenade: Hallé orch, Mar, 1942
3. Koanga - La Calinda: Hallé orch, Mar, 1942
and
Warlock: Capriol Suite, The Curlew, Alan Rawsthorne: Street Corner Overture, Symphonic Studies

The Curlew disk
- James Griffett : ten, Haffner String Quartet, Mary Murdoch : cor-ang, Mary Ryan : fl, Pearl SHE CD 9510, 1973, 1987
- Ian Partridge : ten, The Music Group of London, EMI CDM 7 69170 2, 1974, 1988
- John Mark Ainsley : ten, The Nash Ensemble, Hyperion CDA66938, 1997
- Constant Lambert, John Armstrong : bar, The International String Quartet, Terence McDonagh : cor-ang, Robert Murchie : fl, Pearl, GEM 0058, 1999
Constant Lambert's The Curlew was recorded Mar, 1930! (The Earliest of this disk)
Lullabies (Sunday, September 26, 1999)
Lullabies arranged by Peter Jaffe
Nadia Pelle, Yuli Turovsky, I Music de Montréal Chandos, CHAN 9304, 1994
1. Delius Cradle Song from '7 Songs from the Norwegian,' RT V/9
and
Braga, Bizet, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Grieg, Menotti, Glinka, Haydn, Cimara, Wagner, Longãs, Tchaikovsky, Wolf, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Milhaud, Weber, Fauré, Dvorák, Alfano, Grechaninov, Schubert

Recorded Aug 2, 3 & 5, 1993, the Eglise de la Nativité de la Sainte-Vierge, La Prairie, Quebec.
Who is Papus? (Saturday, September 18, 1999)
Who is (was) Papus?
- September (1893) saw him once again in Paris. His interest in the occult had now led him to associate with Papus, a leading figure in this fashionable field, and before long the two men were to put together an odd booklet exploring the mystic properties and characteristics if the orchestra.
  Lionel Carley, Delius A Life in Letters I 1862 - 1908, Scolar Press, 1983, p. 70.
- Delius et Papus, Anatomie et Physiologie de l'Orchestre, Chamuel, Paris, 1894. In this curious essey, one of Paris's leading occultists, Dr. Gérard Encausse (Papus), attempted with Delius's aid 'to find a new orchestral syste,'.
  Lionel Carley, Delius A Life in Letters I 1862 - 1908, Scolar Press, London, 1983, p. 102fn.
- from a bewildering list of sects, lodges, conventicles
  
  1865
  Foundation of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (other sources give 1860, 1866, or 1867). Bulwer-Lytton, author of the Rosicrusian novel Zanoni, joins.
  
  #75.
  Umberto Eco, Il Pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum), Picador, London, 1990, p. 424.
  Umberto Eco, Foucault no furiko (Foucault's Pendulum), vol. II, Bungei-shunju, Tokyo, 1993, p. 184.
- from a bewildering list of sects, lodges, conventicles
  
  1891
  Papus publishes his Traité méthodique de science occulte.
  
  #75.
  Umberto Eco, Il Pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum), Picador, London, 1990, p. 425.
  Umberto Eco, Foucault no furiko (Foucault's Pendulum), vol. II, Bungei-shunju, Tokyo, 1993, p. 185.
- Aglié continued lookong over our list, with an occasional snicker of commiseration. "Elena Petrovna. A good woman, at heart, but she never said a thing that hadn't already been written everywhere. ... Guaita, a drug-addict bibliomane. Papus: What a character!"
  #76.
  Umberto Eco, Il Pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum), Picador, London, 1990, p. 434.
  Umberto Eco, Foucault no furiko (Foucault's Pendulum), vol. II, Bungei-shunju, Tokyo, 1993, p. 200.
- One of the most influential Martinists at the end of the century, Papus, dazzled Nicholas II during his visit to Paris, then went to Moscow, taking with him one Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot.
  #92.
  Umberto Eco, Il Pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum), Picador, London, 1990, p. 482.
  Umberto Eco, Foucault no furiko (Foucault's Pendulum), vol. II, Bungei-shunju, Tokyo, 1993, p. 279.
Spirit of England II (Sunday, September 12, 1999)
Compilation of Orchestral Works
William Boughton, PO, English string & Symphony Orchestra Nimbus, NI 5450/3, 1995
1. Delius Florida Suite
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1. Holst The Planets
2. Holst Ballet Music from 'The Perfect Fool'
3. Elgar Enigma Variations
4. Elgar The Wand of Youth Suite No. 2
5. Parry An English Suite
6. Finzi Eclogue
7. Bridge There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
8. RVW The Wasps Overture
9. Ireland Minuet from 'A Downland Suite'
10. Walton Two Pieces for Strings from 'Henry V'
11. Berkeley Serenade for Strings
12. Britten Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes'
13. Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Florida Suite Recorded: Jul 14-16, 1989, Great Hall, Birmingham University. Others were recorded between Jan 1988 to Jun 1992.
4CD set of Spirit of England (I) Nimbus, NI 5410/3 includes Summer Evening, and Elgar, Butterworth, Britten, Holst, Bridge, Finzi, RVW, Delius, Parry and Warlock. Nimbus Records, Classical, NI 5210/13, The Spirit of England, Elgar, Butterworth, Britten, Holst, Bridge, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Parry, Warlock - Track Listing
Orchestral Works (Sunday, September 12, 1999)
Orchestral Works
Barry Wordsworth, LSO, Collins, 13362, 1992
1. The walk to the Paradise Garden
2. Brigg Fair
3. On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring
4. Summer Night on the River
5. A Song before Sunrise
6. La Calinda
7. Summer Evening
8. In a Summer Garden
Recorded: Jun 1991, Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London
notes by Eric Roseberry.
The Complete Part-songs (Sunday, September 5, 1999)
The Complete Part-songs,
Matthew Greenall conducs Elysian Singers of London Somm, SOMMCD 210, 1992, 1997
1. Early 6 Part-songs (Durch den wald, An den Sonnenschein, Ave Maria, Sonnenscheinlied, Frühlingsabruch, Her ute skal gildet staa)
2. Chorus from Irmelin, act I
3. Irmelin
4. Wedding music from A Village Romeo and Juliet
5. Chorus form Apparachia
6. On Craig Ddu
7. Wanderer's Song
8. Midsummer Song
9. Two songs for Children
10. to be sung of a summer night on the water
11. Two choruses from Hassan,
12. The Splendour falls on Castle Walls
Recorded: 1992?
see also The Delius Society Journal #123, pp. 50-52.
The Royal Philharmonic Collection (Sunday, September 5, 1999)
Some orchestral works
Christopher Seaman, RPO Tring TRP036, 1995?
1. Brigg Fair
2. La Calina
3. Intermezzo & Serenade form "Hassan"
4. A Song before Sunrise
5. On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring
6. The Walk to the Paradise Garden
7. Irmelin Prelude
8. Over the hills and far away
Recorded: Aug, 1994, C.T.S. Studios, London, Mastered: 1995.
Carole Farley sings Delius (Sunday, August 29, 1999)
Carole Farley sings Delius,
Jose Serebrier conducs Rheinische Philharmonie (1-3), Philharmonia Orchestra (4, 5) Dinemec, DCCD019, 1997
1. Five English and Scandinavian Songs
2. Seven Danish Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (world premiere integral recording)
3. Irmelin Suite (world premiere recording)
4. Two Aquarelles
5. Air and Dance
Recorded: May, Jul, 1977, notes by Lionel Carley, Robert Threlfall, Robert Matthew-Walker.
see also The Delius Society Journal #122, pp. 74-75.
Vernon Handley's Delius Album re-issued & re-compilation in Japan (Apr 11, 1999)
Vernon Handley conducts LPO, Toshiba-EMI, TOCE-19015, Feb 24, 1999
1. Intermezzo from "Fennimore and Gerda" (4'55")
2. On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring (5'42")
3. Summer Night on the River (6'22")
4. A Song before Sunrise (6'23")
5. Sleigh Ride (5'32")
6. Prelude from "Irmelin" (5'01")
7. The Walk to the Paradise Garden (arr. Beecham) (9'21")
8. La Calinda from "Koanga" (arr. Fenby) (4'01")
Recorded: Oct 10, 11, 1977, notes by De-yan.
KOANGA Page of Bill Thompson (Mar 18, 1999)
He has added a page devoted to his favorite Delius opera, KOANGA.

It contains a discography, list of performances, libretto, and sound files. Enjoy!
Delius Live at Hiroshima (Jan 29, 1999)
Today is Frederick Delius' birthday. I have a chance to listen to some Delius music LIVE today.

Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, 188th Subscription Concert.
Conductor: Kazuyoshi Akiyama.
The program tonight is all British Music.
- RVW: The Wasps Overture
- Delius: In a Summer Garden
- Delius: 2 Pieces for small orchestra
- Elgar: Enigma Variations <--- passionate!
I've just been surprised. The Performance is excellent, briliant and emotional over expectation. I am very ashamed to consider as this orchestra is local. Great Job of HSO & Maestro Akiyama! This is the greatest present for Delian.

"Music is a cry of the soul. It is addressed and should appeal instantly to the soul of the listener. It is a revelation, a thing to be reverenced." - F. Delius

NISHIHARA Satoshi, < mail me >

Created: Jan 29, 1999