Delius - Brigg Fair & Choral and orchestral miniatures

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Delius - Brigg Fair & Choral and orchestral miniatures

John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Vernon Handley, George Weldon, Sir John...

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
Catalogue No: 2643122
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Gemini
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Work length6:05

$1.30

$1.70

Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1985-09-19
Recording Venue: 18 & 19 September 1985, Church of St James and St Basil, Newcastle upon Tyne

Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet (1988 Digital Remaster): The Walk to the Paradise Garden (arr. Beecham)

Work length9:24

$1.30

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Recorded: 1988-10-31
Recording Venue: 10 & 11 October 1977, Henry Wood Hall, Southwark

Delius: Koanga: La Calinda

Work length4:25

$1.30

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Philharmonia Orchestra
George Weldon
Recorded: 1961-05-30
Recording Venue: 30 May 1961 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Delius: Sleigh Ride

Work length5:09

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Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1985-09-19
Recording Venue: 18 & 19 September 1985, Church of St James & St Basil, Newcastle upon Tyne

Delius: Irmelin Prelude

Work length5:44

$1.30

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London Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded: 1994-01-01
Recording Venue: 14 July 1966, Kingsway Hall, London

Delius: Fennimore and Gerda: Intermezzo

Work length5:18

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Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1985-09-19
Recording Venue: 18 & 19 September 1985, St Basil and St James, Church of Newcastle

Delius: A Song Before Sunrise

Work length5:57

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Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1985-09-19
Recording Venue: 18 & 19 September 1985, Church of St James and St Basil, Newcastle upon Tyne

Delius: Brigg Fair

Work length18:08

$29.90

$39.10

Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded: 1970-07-17
Recording Venue: 15-17 July 1970, Kingsway Hall, London

Introduction (Slow. Pastoral)

Track length1:39

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I. Theme (with easy movement)

Track length0:25

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Variation 1

Track length0:24

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Variation 2

Track length0:24

$1.30

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Variation 3

Track length0:25

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 4

Track length0:26

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 5

Track length0:20

$1.30

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Variation 6

Track length0:38

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II. Interlude (Slow and very quietly)

Track length3:26

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III. Variation 7 (Rather quicker but not hurried)

Track length0:24

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Variation 8

Track length0:29

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Variation 9 (With easy movement)

Track length0:30

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Variation 10

Track length1:04

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Variation 11 (Slow. With solemnity)

Track length1:15

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Variation 12 (Maestoso)

Track length0:54

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Transition

Track length1:09

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IV. Variation 13 (Gaily)

Track length0:20

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Variation 14

Track length0:18

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Variation 15

Track length0:26

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Variation 16

Track length0:20

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Transition (Rather quicker)

Track length0:19

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Variation 17 (Rather slower. Very broadly)

Track length1:06

$1.30

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Coda (Very quietly)

Track length1:27

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Delius: In a Summer Garden

Work length15:06

Album only

Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded: 1968-08-08
Recording Venue: 6-8 August 1968, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Delius: Summer Evening

Work length6:29

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Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1985-09-19
Recording Venue: 18 & 19 September 1985: Church of St James and St Basil, Newcastle upon Tyne

Delius: Summer night on the river

Work length6:31

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Recorded: 1977-10-31
Recording Venue: 10 & 11 October 1977, Henry Wood Hall, Southwark

Delius: A Song of Summer

Work length9:38

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
Recorded: 1974-12-23
Recording Venue: 22 & 23 December 1974 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Delius: North Country Sketches (1989 Digital Remaster)

Work length26:48

$5.20

$6.80

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
Recorded: 1974-12-23
Recording Venue: 22 & 23 December 1974 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

I. Autumn: The Wind soughs in the Trees

Track length7:25

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II. Winter Landscape

Track length4:10

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III. Dance

Track length6:47

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IV. The March of Spring: Woodlands, Meadows and Silent Moors

Track length8:26

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Delius: Lebenstanz

Work length15:25

Album only

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
Recorded: 1974-12-23
Recording Venue: 22 & 23 December 1974 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Delius: Cynara

Work length9:33

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John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
Recorded: 1968-06-27
Recording Venue: 27 June 1968 / Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

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

Work length4:17

$2.60

$3.40

Robert Tear (tenor)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger
Recorded: 1975-04-20
Recording Venue: 19 & 20 April 1975, Guildhall, Cambridge

I. Slow, but not dragging

Track length2:10

$1.30

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II. Gaily, but not quick

Track length2:07

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Frederick Delius (1862-1934) was born in Bradford of parents who had been born in Germany. His father was a successful wool merchant and although he allowed his son to study music he did not regard it as a career option. On leaving school he therefore joined the wool company but he proved unreliable; he did, however, visit Norway and Paris on the firm’s business and met life-long friends. In 1884 he was allowed to go to Florida as an orange grower. This gave him freedom from family pressures – he neglected the oranges but studied music and was greatly influenced by the music of the plantation negroes. He developed one of the most individual and easily recognisable harmonic and melodic styles of composition. He was strongly supported by the eminent conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, who gave numerous performances of his work and clearly established an appreciation for it amongst its listeners. Some critics have remarked that whilst his formula for composition was artistically successful it was so but within a strictly defined and narrow emotional and expressive range – certainly this is borne out by the popularity of the shorter works which form the vast majority of this collection, especially the exquisite sensuous idylls catching the lights, sounds, perhaps even the smells of the English countryside.

His last ten years were blighted by illness and in 1928 Eric Fenby became his amanuensis thereby enabling the composer to complete a number of works including A Song of Summer.

He died virtually a recluse in Grez-sur-Loing and, as French law forbade his burial in his garden, his remains were removed from Grez’s cemetery after a year and moved to Limpsfield in Surrey.

Artists

John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor)

Delius - Brigg Fair & Choral and orchestral miniatures

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