Frederick Delius: Complete Part-Songs

Delius had a special relationship with the collective human voice, and the songs here are presented chronologically, which allows us to follow pleasurably the development of his style.
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Catalogue No: SOMM210
Label: Somm
Length: 50 minutes

Delius: German Partsongs (6)

Work length12:00

$6.00

$7.20

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

No. 2. Durch den Wald

Track length2:52

$1.00

$1.20

No. 1. Oh! Sonnenschein

Track length1:18

$1.00

$1.20

No. 3. Ave Maria

Track length2:46

$1.00

$1.20

No. 4. Sonnenscheinlied

Track length0:59

$1.00

$1.20

No. 5. Fruhlingsanbruch

Track length1:32

$1.00

$1.20

No. 6. Her ute skal gildet staa

Track length2:33

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: Irmelin

Work length1:52

$1.00

$1.20

Joanna Nolan (soprano)
Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Irmelin, Act I: Away, far away to the woods

Track length1:52

$1.00

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Delius: Irmelin (arr. E. Lubin)

Work length4:13

$1.00

$1.20

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Irmelin: Hear a sad and ancient lay (arr. E. Lubin for choir)

Track length4:13

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet (arr. E. Fenby for choir and organ)

Work length2:32

$1.00

$1.20

Mark Brafield (organ)
Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

A Village Romeo and Juliet, Scene 4: Wedding Music: Lord, before thy mighty will (arr. E. Fenby for choir and organ)

Track length2:32

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song (arr. B. Suchoff for tenor, choir and piano)

Work length4:32

$1.00

$1.20

Stephen Douse (tenor), Andrew Ball (piano)
Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song: Finale: Oh, honey, I am going down the river (arr. B. Suchoff for tenor, choir and piano)

Track length4:32

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: On Craig Dhu (An impression of nature)

Work length3:53

$1.00

$1.20

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Delius: Wanderer's Song

Work length3:15

$1.00

$1.20

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Delius: Midsummer Song

Work length1:51

$1.00

$1.20

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Delius: Songs for Children (2)

Work length4:33

$2.00

$2.40

Andrew Ball (piano)
Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

No. 1. Little Birdie

Track length1:32

$1.00

$1.20

No. 2. The Streamlet's Slumber Song

Track length3:01

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: To be sung of a summer night on the water

Work length5:01

$2.00

$2.40

Stephen Douse (tenor)
Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

No. 1. (without words)

Track length2:26

$1.00

$1.20

No. 2.

Track length2:35

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: Hassan: excerpts

Work length3:08

$2.00

$2.40

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

Act I: (without words)

Track length1:49

$1.00

$1.20

Act II: Today the fools who cahth a cold in summer

Track length1:19

$1.00

$1.20

Delius: The splendour falls on castle walls

Work length3:29

$1.00

$1.20

Elysian Singers
Matthew Greenall

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2010

Delius had a special relationship with the collective human voice, and the songs here are presented chronologically, which allows us to follow pleasurably the development of his style.
The extracts from A Village Romeo and Juliet and Appalachia prolong what would otherwise be a rather brief encounter and their accompaniments also provide contrast of timbre, but they do need to be heard in context to 'take off'. The 'essential' Delius comes with On Craig Dhu – experience of nature not so much tinged by melancholy as perceived through it; a haunting evocation in grey; and the setting of Tennyson's The splendour falls on castle walls, as characteristically Delius as Britten's setting of it, in his Serenade, is Britten.
Though the singing itself deserves a generally warm welcome, not all Delius's chromatic wanderings are as confidently charted as they might be. The sopranos seem the strongest contingent, and the ones most often in the expressive spotlight. Nor are the soloists ideal, the tenor sounding unhappy in the higher regions of the second of the two songs, To be sung of a summernight on the water. And on occasions, as in the first of those two songs, one might have wished for more varied pacing and dynamic shading from the conductor. But the world of Delius performance is one where devotees are used to taking the roundabouts with the swings, and this is the only all-Delius collection of its kind on the market.

This is the only all-Delius collection of its kind on the market and it allows us to pleasurably follow the development of Delius's style

British Music Society Journal

Matthew Grenall and the Elysians should be congratulated ... this CD should be in the collection of every Delian

Frederick Delius: Complete Part-Songs

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