DELIUS 150th Anniversary Edition

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frederick Delius’s birth EMI has put together a new collection of the finest recordings of his music with new remasters and exclusive interview and online content.

CD 1

[1] Sleigh Ride (Winternacht) 5.30

[2] Marche caprice (ed & arr. Beecham) 4.00

[3] Over the hills and far away (ed. Beecham) 12.57

[4] A Dance Rhapsody no. 2 7.40

[5]-[9] A Dance Rhapsody no. 1 12.01

[10] On the Mountains (Paa vidderne) 12.17

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham

[11]-[15]Promotional presentation by Sir Thomas Beecham in October 1948 25.02 for the launch of the 78rpm set of A Village Romeo and Juliet

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 79.20

CD 2

[1] The Walk to the Paradise Garden

from A Village Romeo and Juliet (arr. Beecham) 9.45

[2] A Song of Summer 11.19

[3] Irmelin Prelude 5.44

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli

[4] Late Swallows (arr. Fenby) 10.49

Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli

[5] Rehearsing Appalachia (16.VII.1970) 2.32

[6]-[22]Appalachia – Variations on an Old Slave Song with final chorus 37.19 (rev. & ed. Beecham)

Ambrosian Singers (chorus master: John McCarthy)

Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 78.50

CD 3

[1] Paris – The Song of a great City 21.49

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras

[2] In a Summer Garden 14.12

Hallé Orchestra/Vernon Handley

Two Pieces for Small Orchestra

[3] No. 1 On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring 5.42

[4] No. 2 Summer night on the river 6.23

[5] Intermezzo from ‘Fennimore and Gerda’ (arr. Fenby) 4.54

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley

[6]-[8] Piano Concerto in C minor 22.40

Piers Lane, piano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 75.50

CD 4

[1]-[4] Florida, suite (Revised and edited by Sir Thomas Beecham) 38.15

[5]-[27] Brigg Fair – An English Rhapsody 16.02

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox

[28] Summer Evening (arr. Beecham) 6.30

[29] La Calinda from Koanga (arr. Fenby) 4.05

[30] Air and Dance 4.05

[31] Intermezzo & 2.13

[32] Serenade from Hassan (arr. Beecham) 2.23

Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox

[33]-[34]Two Aquarelles, arr. Fenby 4.11

The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 78.55

CD 5

[1] Lebenstanz (Life’s Dance) 15.21

[2]-[5] North Country Sketches 26.46

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

[6]-[13] Sea Drift (Whitman) 25.02

John Noble, baritone/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

[14] Cynara (Dowson) 9.30

John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 76.50

CD 6

[1]-[3] Violin Concerto 27.14

Yehudi Menuhin, violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies

[4]-[6] Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra 21.50

Yehudi Menuhin, violin/Paul Tortelier, cello

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies

[7]-[11]Cello Concerto 24.37

Jacqueline du Pré, cello

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 69.30

CD 7

ALL WORKS ARRANGED BY ERIC FENBY 1906-1997

[1] Dance* 2.36 Two Pieces for flute and strings*

[2] 1. La Calinda 3.36

[3] 2. Air and Dance 4.56

[4]-[8] Five Little Pieces for small orchestra 9.50

[9]-[12]Sonata for String Orchestra 28.54

*Elena Duran, flute

Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Eric Fenby

[13]-[16]String Quartet 28.44

Britten Quartet

Peter Manning & Keith Pascoe, violins

Peter Lale, viola ● Andrew Shulman, cello

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 79.00

CD 8

[1]-[3] Violin Sonata No. 1 22.50

[4]-[6] Violin Sonata No. 2 13.32

[7]-[9] Violin Sonata No. 3 17.10

Yehudi Menuhin, violin ● Eric Fenby, piano

[10] Légende in E flat 8.15

Tasmin Little, violin ● John Lenehan, piano

[11]-[13]Cello Sonata 14.19

Moray Welsh, cello ● Israela Margalit, piano

[14] Dance for Harpsichord 2.21

Igor Kipnis, harpsichord

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 78.40

CD 9

[1] Twilght Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson; English: Copeland) 3.49

Ian Bostridge, tenor ● Julius Drake, piano

[2]-[3] To be sung of a summer night on the water (wordless) 4.15

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Sir Philip Ledger

[4] Wanderer’s Song (Symons) 3.35

Baccholian Singers of London

Rogers Covey-Crump, Ian Partridge, Ian Thompson, Paul Elliott, tenors

Ian Humphris, Stephen Varcoe, baritone; Michael George, Brian Etheridge, bass

[5] Heimkehr (The Homeward Journey) (Vinje) orch. Sondheimer 4.40

Marjorie Thomas, mezzo-soprano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham

[6] Twilght Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson) orch. Beecham 4.12

[7] Whither (Autumn) (Holstein) orch. Beecham 2.42

[8] The Violet (Holstein) orch. Gibson 1.53

Elsie Suddaby, soprano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham

[9] Whither (Autumn) (Holstein) orch. Beecham 2.45

[10] The Violet (Holstein) orch. Gibson 1.48

[11] I-Brasîl (MacLeod) orch. Heseltine (Warlock) 2.45

[12] Klein Venevil (Bjørnson) [sung in German] 1.51

Dora Labbette, soprano

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham

[13] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson) 4.18

[14] Cradle Song (Ibsen) 2.13

[15] The Nightingale (Welhaven) 2.03

Dora Labbette, soprano ● Sir Thomas Beecham, piano

[16] Irmelin Rose (Jacobsen) } 4.20 { ?.??

[17] So white, so soft, so sweet Is she (Johnson) } { ?.??

[18] Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (Verlaine) } 4.24 { ?.??

[19] La lune blanche (Verlaine) } { ?.??

Dora Labbette, soprano ● Gerald Moore, piano

[20] To The Queen Of My Heart (Shelley) } 4.47 { ?.??

[21] Love’s Philosophy (Shelley) } { ?.??

Heddle Nash, tenor ● Gerald Moore, piano

[22] Caprice and Elegy 9.25

Beatrice Harrison, cello

Chamber Orchestra/Eric Fenby

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 67.00

CD 10

[1] Eventyr (Once upon a time) 16.14

Hallé Orchestra/Vernon Handley

[2]-[27]Hassan, Incidental music (Flecker) 62.56

Martyn Hill, tenor ● Brian Rayner Cook, baritone

Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir

Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Vernon Handley

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 79.10

CD 11

[1]-[8] Songs of Sunset (Dowson) 29.31

Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano ● John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

[9] An Arabesque (Jacobsen) 11.38

John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

A Mass of Life (from Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra)

[10]-[14]FIRST PART 33.41

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 75.08

CD 12

A Mass of Life (from Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra)

[1]-[8] SECOND PART 66.07

Heather Harper, soprano ● Helen Watts, contralto

Robert Tear, tenor ● Benjamin Luxon, baritone

London Philharmonic Choir

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 66.07

CD 13

[1]-[5] Requiem (Simon) 30.35

Heather Harper, soprano ● John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

Royal Choral Society

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies

[6]-[11]Idyll (Once I passed through a populous city (Whitman) 21.32

Heather Harper, soprano ● John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies

[12] A Song before Sunrise 6.09

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent

[13]-[17]Songs of Farewell (Whitman) 19.23

Royal Choral Society

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 78.15

CD 14

Koanga

[1]-[16]Prologue, Act 1 & 2

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 61.16

CD 15

Koanga

[1]-[13]Act 3 & Epilogue 51.34

[14]-[17]The Song of the High Hills (wordless) 24.58

Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 76.32

CD 16

A Village Romeo and Juliet

[1]-[22] Scenes 1 – 4 (inc.)

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 68.10

CD 17

A Village Romeo and Juliet

[1]-[15] Scenes 5 & 6 41.26

Illustrated talk by Eric Fenby 27.20

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 68.46

John Alldis Choir (chorus master: John Alldis)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies

CD 18

Fennimore and Gerda

[1]-[15] Pictures 1 – 11 (inc.)

TOTAL DURATION (approx) 78.24

Danish Radio Chorus

Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Meredith Davies

EMI Classics 18cds 0841752

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