Word: delius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DELIUS: PIANO CONCERTO (Decca). As a young man, Delius weny out from England to spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...
...DELIUS: SUMMER EVENING and PRELUDE TO IRMELIN (Seraphim). Sir Thomas Beecham again, magically confecting these drifting, dreaming selections by the blind composer whose works he espoused. Sir Thomas also conducts the tone poem Tapiola by Sibelius, a masterly evocation of the forest god Tapio and his mysterious Finnish woodlands...
...sandals. Colin Davis, the brilliant 39-year-old British conductor, led off the all-British program with a rousing performance of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...
...DELIUS: SONGS OF FAREWELL (Angel). "How sweet the silent backward tracings!" Walt Whitman's verses begin. Delius was blind when he wrote this tone poem for double chorus and orchestra, with its sliding harmonies complex in texture yet as delicate as sighs. Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society...
...Best Publicity." But often, when the catalogue said more, confusion reigned. A Hartert Redon was said to have been owned by A. Giez Delius, but a Hartert Vlaminck was listed as having belonged to F. Delius Giese. Three Seurats were listed as having been bought at Paris' municipal auction in 1949, but the Paris art world has no memory of this important sale...