Delius - 150th Anniversary Edition | EMI 0841752

Delius - 150th Anniversary Edition

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 0841752

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 18

Release Date: 14th November 2011

Contents

Works

Delius, Frederick

A Mass of Life
A Song Before Sunrise
A Song of Summer
A Song of the High Hills
A Village Romeo and Juliet
Air and Dance
An Arabesque
Appalachia 'Variations on an Old Slave Song'
Aquarelles (2)
Autumn
Brigg Fair
Caprice and Elegy
Cello Concerto
Cradle song
Cynara
Dance Rhapsody no.1
Dance Rhapsody no.2
Dance
Danish Songs (7)
» Irmelin Rose
Double Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra
Eventyr 'Once upon a Time'
Fennimore and Gerda
» Intermezzo
Florida Suite
Hassan
» Incidental Music
» Intermezzo
» Serenade
I-Brasil
Idyll 'Once I passed through a populous city'
In a Summer Garden
Irmelin
» Prelude
Koanga
» La Calinda
La lune blanche
Late Swallows
Lebenstanz
Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit
Legende
Little Pieces (5)
Marche Caprice
North Country Sketches
Over the Hills and Far Away
Paa Vidderne (On the mountains): tone poem
Paris: The Song of a Great City
Piano Concerto in C minor
Pieces (2) for Small Orchestra
Requiem
Sea Drift
Shelley Songs (3)
» no.2 Love's philosophy
» no.3 To the queen of my heart
Sleigh Ride
Sonata for string orchestra (arr. Fenby)
Songs (2) to be sung of a summer night on the water
Songs (5) from the Norwegian
» no.2 The Nightingale
Songs of Farewell (5)
Songs of Sunset (8)
So white, so soft, so sweet is she
String Quartet (1916)
Summer Evening
The Homeward Way
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
The violet
Twilight Fancies
Violin Concerto
Violin Sonata no.1
Violin Sonata no.2
Violin Sonata no.3
Wanderer's Song
Young Venevil

Works

Delius, Frederick

A Mass of Life
A Song Before Sunrise
A Song of Summer
A Song of the High Hills
A Village Romeo and Juliet
Air and Dance
An Arabesque
Appalachia 'Variations on an Old Slave Song'
Aquarelles (2)
Autumn
Brigg Fair
Caprice and Elegy
Cello Concerto
Cradle song
Cynara
Dance Rhapsody no.1
Dance Rhapsody no.2
Dance
Danish Songs (7)
» Irmelin Rose
Double Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra
Eventyr 'Once upon a Time'
Fennimore and Gerda
» Intermezzo
Florida Suite
Hassan
» Incidental Music
» Intermezzo
» Serenade
I-Brasil
Idyll 'Once I passed through a populous city'
In a Summer Garden
Irmelin
» Prelude
Koanga
» La Calinda
La lune blanche
Late Swallows
Lebenstanz
Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit
Legende
Little Pieces (5)
Marche Caprice
North Country Sketches
Over the Hills and Far Away
Paa Vidderne (On the mountains): tone poem
Paris: The Song of a Great City
Piano Concerto in C minor
Pieces (2) for Small Orchestra
Requiem
Sea Drift
Shelley Songs (3)
» no.2 Love's philosophy
» no.3 To the queen of my heart
Sleigh Ride
Sonata for string orchestra (arr. Fenby)
Songs (2) to be sung of a summer night on the water
Songs (5) from the Norwegian
» no.2 The Nightingale
Songs of Farewell (5)
Songs of Sunset (8)
So white, so soft, so sweet is she
String Quartet (1916)
Summer Evening
The Homeward Way
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
The violet
Twilight Fancies
Violin Concerto
Violin Sonata no.1
Violin Sonata no.2
Violin Sonata no.3
Wanderer's Song
Young Venevil

About

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.

This set brings together performances not only by Beecham and Fenby but also by other conductors who revel in his remarkably evocative music. Besides the orchestral music, there are three of his operas and examples of his chamber and solo works as well as his songs.

Includes over 80 minutes of newly-remastered recordings and a promotional presentation by Thomas Beecham given in October 1948 for the launch of the 78rpm set of A Village Romeo and Juliet.

Contents:
CD 1
[1] Sleigh Ride (Winternacht)
[2] Marche caprice (ed & arr. Beecham) 
[3] Over the hills and far away (ed. Beecham) 
[4] A Dance Rhapsody No.2 
[5]-[9] A Dance Rhapsody No.1 
[10] On the Mountains (Paa vidderne)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham

[11]-[15] Promotional presentation by Sir Thomas Beecham in October 1948 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) 
[2] A Song of Summer 
[3] Irmelin Prelude
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli

[4] Late Swallows (arr. Fenby)
Hallé Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli

[5] Rehearsing Appalachia (16.VII.1970) 
[6]-[22] Appalachia – Variations on an Old Slave Song with final chorus (rev. & ed. Beecham)
Ambrosian Singers, Hallé Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli
 
Total Duration (approx): 78.50
 
CD 3
[1] Paris – The Song of a great City 
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras

[2] In a Summer Garden
Hallé Orchestra / Vernon Handley

Two Pieces for Small Orchestra
[3] No.1 On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring
[4] No.2 Summer night on the river
[5] Intermezzo from ‘Fennimore and Gerda’ (arr. Fenby) 
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley

[6]-[8] Piano Concerto in C minor
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) 
[5]-[27] Brigg Fair – An English Rhapsody 
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox

[28] Summer Evening (arr. Beecham)
[29] La Calinda from Koanga (arr. Fenby)
[30] Air and Dance
[31] Intermezzo &
[32] Serenade from Hassan (arr. Beecham)
Northern Sinfonia of England / Richard Hickox
 
[33]-[34]Two Aquarelles, arr. Fenby
The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / Sir Neville Marriner
 
Total Duration (approx): 78.55
 
CD 5
[1] Lebenstanz (Life’s Dance)
[2]-[5] North Country Sketches
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves

[6]-[13] Sea Drift (Whitman)
John Noble (baritone), Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves
 
[14] Cynara (Dowson)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves
 
Total Duration (approx): 76.50
 
CD 6
[1]-[3] Violin Concerto
Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Meredith Davies

[4]-[6] Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin, violin / Paul Tortelier, cello
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Meredith Davies

[7]-[11] Cello Concerto
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Malcolm Sargent
 
Total Duration (approx): 69.30
 
CD 7 (all works arranged by Eric Fenby)
[1] Dance
Two Pieces for flute and strings
[2] 1. La Calinda
[3] 2. Air and Dance
[4]-[8] Five Little Pieces for small orchestra
[9]-[12] Sonata for String Orchestra
Elena Duran (flute), Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Eric Fenby

[13]-[16] String Quartet
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
[4]-[6] Violin Sonata No.2
[7]-[9] Violin Sonata No.3
Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Eric Fenby (piano)

[10] Légende in E flat 
Tasmin Little (violin) / John Lenehan (piano)

[11]-[13] Cello Sonata 
Moray Welsh (cello) / Israela Margalit (piano)

[14] Dance for Harpsichord
Igor Kipnis (harpsichord)
 
Total Duration (approx): 78.40
 
CD 9
[1] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson; English: Copeland)
Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Julius Drake (piano)

[2]-[3] To be sung of a summer night on the water (wordless)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Sir Philip Ledger

[4] Wanderer’s Song (Symons)
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
Marjorie Thomas (mezzo-soprano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham

[6] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson) orch. Beecham
[7] Whither (Autumn) (Holstein) orch. Beecham
[8] The Violet (Holstein) orch. Gibson 
Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham

[9] Whither (Autumn) (Holstein) orch. Beecham
[10] The Violet (Holstein) orch. Gibson
[11] I-Brasîl (MacLeod) orch. Heseltine (Warlock)
[12] Klein Venevil (Bjørnson) [sung in German]
Dora Labbette (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham

[13] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson)
[14] Cradle Song (Ibsen)
[15] The Nightingale (Welhaven)
Dora Labbette (soprano) / Sir Thomas Beecham (piano)
 
[16] Irmelin Rose (Jacobsen)
[17] So white, so soft, so sweet Is she (Johnson)
[18] Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (Verlaine)
[19] La lune blanche (Verlaine)
Dora Labbette (soprano) / Gerald Moore (piano)

[20] To The Queen Of My Heart (Shelley)
[21] Love’s Philosophy (Shelley)
Heddle Nash (tenor) / Gerald Moore (piano)

[22] Caprice and Elegy
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Chamber Orchestra / Eric Fenby
 
Total Duration (approx): 67.00
 
CD 10
[1] Eventyr (Once upon a time)
Hallé Orchestra / Vernon Handley
 
[2]-[27] Hassan, Incidental music (Flecker)
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)
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) / John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves

[9] An Arabesque (Jacobsen)
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
 
Total Duration (approx): 75.08
 
CD 12
A Mass of Life (from Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra)
[1]-[8] SECOND PART
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)
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)
Heather Harper (soprano) / John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Meredith Davies

[12] A Song before Sunrise
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Malcolm Sargent

[13]-[17] Songs of Farewell (Whitman)
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
[14]-[17] The Song of the High Hills (wordless)
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves

Koanga
Cast:
- Koanga (an African prince and Voodoo priest): Eugene Holmes, baritone
- Palmyra (a quadroon, half-sister to Clotilda): Claudia Lindsey, soprano
- Don José Martinez (a planter): Raimund Herincx, bass
- Simon Perez (Don José’s overseer): Keith Erwen, tenor
- Clotilda (Don José’s wife): Jean Allister, contralto
- Rangwan (a Voodoo priest): Simon Estes, bass
- Renée: Elaine Barry, soprano
- Hélène: Pamela Smith, soprano
- Jeanne: Eleanor Capp, soprano
- Marie: Valerie Hill, soprano
- Aurore: Doreen Walker, contralto
- Hortense: Jean Temperley, contralto
- Olive: Lesley Reid, contralto
- Paulette: Patricia Hogan, contralto
- Negro I: John Dudley, tenor
- Negro II: William Mason, baritone
John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves

Total Duration (approx): 76.32
 
CD 16
A Village Romeo and Juliet
Total Duration (approx): 68.10
 
CD 17
A Village Romeo and Juliet
Cast:
- Manz (a rich farmer): Benjamin Luxon, baritone
- Marti (a rich farmer): Noel Mangin, baritone
- Sali, Manz’s son (as a child): Colin Manley, treble
- Vrenchen, Marti’s daughter (as a child): Wendy Eathorne, soprano
- Sali: Robert Tear, tenor
- Vrenchen: Elizabeth Harwood, soprano
- The Dark Fiddler (Rightful Heir to the Wildland): John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

Fairground Characters
- First Peasant: Stephen Varcoe, baritone
- Second Peasant: Bryn Evans, baritone
- First Woman: Felicity Palmer, soprano
- Second Woman: Mavis Beattie, soprano
- Gingerbread Woman: Doreen Price, soprano
- Wheel-of-Fortune Woman: Elaine Barry, soprano
- Cheap Jewellery Woman: Pauline Stevens, contralto
- Showman: Martyn Hill, tenor
- Merry-go-Round Man: John Huw Davies, baritone
- Shooting-Gallery Man: Stephen Varcoe, baritone

Vagabonds
- The Slim Girl: Felicity Palmer, soprano
- The Wild Girl: Sarah Walker, contralto
- The Poor Horn-Player: Paul Taylor, tenor
- The Hunch-backed Bass-Fiddler: Franklyn Whiteley, bass
- First Bargee: Robert Bateman, baritone
- Second Bargee: John Noble, baritone
- Third Bargee: Ian Partridge, tenor
 
John Alldis Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Meredith Davies
Total Duration (approx): 68.46

CD 18
Fennimore and Gerda
Cast:
- Fennimore: Elisabeth Söderström
- Niels Lyhne: Brian Rayner Cook
- Erik Refstrup: Robert Tear
- Consul Claudi: Birger Brandt
- Mrs Claudi: Hedvig Rummel
- A Sportsman: Mogens Berg
- A Town Councillor: Peter Fog
- A Tutor: Michael W Hansen
- A Distiller: Peter Fog
- Councillor Skinnerup (Gerda’s father): Hans Christian Hansen
- Ingrid: Bodil Kongsted
- Lila: Ingeborg Junghans
- Marit: Kirsten Buhl-Møller
- A Voice across the Water: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- A Lady: Kirsten Buhl-Møller
- A Maidservant: Eva Tamulenas
Danish Radio Chorus, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Meredith Davies

Total Duration (approx): 78.24

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