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~ Frederick Delius (Composer), Sir Thomas Beecham (Conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), John Brownlee (Performer)
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1. A Village Romeo And Juliet: The Walk To The Paradise Garden: Intermezzo - Sir Thomas Beecham/RPO
2. Sea Drift - London Select Chor/John Brownlee
3. Fennimore And Gerda: Intermezzo
4. In A Summer Garden
5. Over The Hills And Far Away
On this CD:
  1. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6 Intermezzo: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
    Composed by Frederick Delius
    Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

  2. Sea Drift, for baritone, chorus & orchestra, RT ii/3
    Composed by Frederick Delius
    Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra
    with John Brownlee
    Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

  3. Fennimore and Gerda, opera, RT i/8 Intermezzo
    Composed by Frederick Delius
    Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

  4. In a Summer Garden, rhapsody for orchestra, RT vi/17
    Composed by Frederick Delius
    Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

  5. Over the Hills and Far Away, fantasy overture for orchestra, RT vi/11
    Composed by Frederick Delius
    Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

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These performances of five works by Delius under Thomas Beecham, his friend and foremost champion, are incomparable for their authenticity and the beauty of their sound. The music has all the hallmarks of Delius's style: the calm, lyrical serenity; the shimmering, colorful, often lush orchestration; the evocation of nature, not through imitative sound effects, but rather through its peaceful, languid atmosphere. "The Walk to the Paradise Garden," from A Village Romeo and Juliet, a lovely, pastoral, impressionist piece, was recorded in 1927 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a group of freelance musicians; the rest, recorded in 1936, features the London Philharmonic, formed by Beecham in 1932. The playing throughout is beguilingly beautiful, and no wonder: the woodwinds include some of the greatest English players of the time, notably oboist Léon Goossens and clarinetist Reginald Kell. Their solos shed a special, delicate luster over "In a Summer Garden" and the Intermezzo from the opera Fennimore and Gerda, assembled from the prelude and two scenes by Eric Fenby, Delius's selfless, indispensable secretary, and performed here for the first time. "Over the Hills and Far Away," a youthful work clearly influenced by Wagner, is simple, wistful, and episodic. The disc's most substantial piece is "Sea Drift," for baritone, chorus, and orchestra, set to a long poem by Walt Whitman (the text, alas, is not included). Colorful, atmospheric, somewhat discursive, with many changes of mood and texture, it rises to several dramatic climaxes, but ends in resignation. Brownlee's voice is a bit dry, but he sings with much understanding; the chorus is excellent. --Edith Eisler

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5.0 out of 5 stars One could hardly wish for better performances., Aug 9 2002
By John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This second historic CD of works by Frederick Delius conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham offers all the items that appeared in the 1936 Delius Society volume. In addition there is Beecham's 1927 recording of "The Walk To the Paradise Garden", a recording that especially delighted Delius himself. Recorded at various times during 1936 in Studio 1, Abbey Road, the other items may be heard in slightly better sound quality than that which emerged from the first CD in this Naxos series of three. One could hardly wish for better performances. "Sea Drift" is the work and the performance to treasure here. It features the fine Australian baritone John Brownlee.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One could hardly wish for better performances., Jul 30 2002
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This second historic CD of works by Frederick Delius conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham offers all the items that appeared in the 1936 Delius Society volume. In addition there is Beecham's 1927 recording of "The Walk To the Paradise Garden", a recording that especially delighted Delius himself. Recorded at various times during 1936 in Studio 1, Abbey Road, the other items may be heard in slightly better sound quality than that which emerged from the first CD in this Naxos series of three. One could hardly wish for better performances. "Sea Drift" is the work and the performance to treasure here. It features the fine Australian baritone John Brownlee.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delius in Mezzotint, Oct 2 2000
By Thomas F. Bertonneau (Oswego, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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There is not exactly a Frederick Delius controversy: Those who like him, like him; everyone else ignores him. Once, however, the fires of opinion crackled high. Certain affiliations of the composer, such as his use of Nietzsche as the text of his Mass of Life or his friendship with the playwright Strindberg, put Delius as it were in the company of the then artistic avant-garde (I speak of the fin-de-siecle). These associations endowed the music with a certain aura of daring, and for a while some critics, especially in Germany, even considered Delius one of the chief competitors of Richard Strauss. The Delius partisans in England also advocated their champion as an important figure in modern music. One of them - in his way, the most convinced of them all - organized two Delius Festivals (1929 and 1946), week-long affairs devoted to the master's big orchestral-and-choral scores, deferring much of the expense himself. This was Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Beecham, whose advocacy went beyond the Festival into an ambitious recording-program of his friend's music, much of it subsidized by The Delius Society, which Beecham himself helped to organize. At the nadir of Delius' reputation, after World War II, the memory of him dependend largely on Beecham's pioneering studio-work. Collins and Barbirolli made recordings in the LP era, and many conductors have sampled the shorter works for CD (Richard Hickox has been issuing digital realizations of the major scores for a decade), but Beecham's original go-around have remained the interpretive benchmark. Now Naxos, as part of its "Great Conductors" series, gives us remasterings of some of Beecham's original Delius platters. Volume II centers on a magnificent 1936 reading of the choral suite Sea Drift to achingly lyrical words by Walt Whitman. Beecham leads the Royal Philharmonic and the London Select Choir; John Brownlee is the perfect baritone for the solo part. Much of the Beecham-Delius collaboration has already appeared on CD on the Dutton label. Those are magnificent remasterings. The advantage of the Naxos series, comparable with Dutton in the beauty of its sound, lies in its low price. For a mere six dollars or so, one can hear directly Beecham's passionate case for this music, the wonderful warmth of the players and singers, the excitement of the event. The CD includes four shorter works: The Walk to Paradise Garden from the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, the Intermezzo from the opera Fennimore and Gerda (after a novel by the Dane Jacobsen), the tone-poem In a Summer Garden, and the early overture Over the Hills and Far Away. Maybe Delius wasn't a "great," maybe he simply tapped into a vein of late-romantic nostalgia. However the quibbling estheticians might decide it, Beecham makes us believe that this is the pure distillate of heartache and beauty. And so, while one listens, it is.
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