Delius - Poem of Life and Love, etc
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Label: Dutton - Epoch
Cat No: CDLX7264
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 14th March 2011
Contents
Artists
Royal Scottish National OrchestraConductor
David Lloyd-JonesWorks
A Village Romeo and Juliet: suiteIrmelin: Suite
Lebenstanz
Poem of Life and Love
Artists
Royal Scottish National OrchestraConductor
David Lloyd-JonesAbout
Life’s Dance teems with an almost Straussian richness of thematic material, and calls for a degree of orchestral virtuosity that is rarely found in Delius. The more extended Poem of Life and Love (receiving its premiere recording) had to be slightly reconstructed and was first published only in 1999; it is the last in the composer’s great series of works for orchestra alone. At the end of his life, Delius extracted some of its most haunting sections to form A Song of Summer.
The Suites derived from two of Delius’s six operas serve to rescue wonderful music which, because of the rarity of productions of the works themselves, is only occasionally heard. That for his first opera, Irmelin, was arranged by Sir Thomas Beecham and contains the kind of melodic and orchestral richness that we associate with the ever-popular Florida Suite.
David Matthews has selected some of the more extended orchestral passages from Delius’s operatic masterpiece, A Village Romeo and Juliet, to form a representative suite from this haunting and heart-breaking score. For those who do not know the opera, this generous selection will come as something of a revelation.
World premiere recordings of:
- Poem of Life and Love
- A Village Romeo and Juliet: Suite (in this version)
Recorded at RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 13-14 September 2010.
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