It's just the right time of year for a festival celebrating the music of Frederick Delius. As the evenings get longer and a drowsy heat lingers in the gardens, the pastoral nostalgia of Delius seems ...

Posterity is perhaps the only enduring test of an artist’s work. Seventy-six years after Delius died, performances of his compositions are being well-received. In particular there is the 2011 CD, ...

The Music: Delius’s concertos are like no other. The solo writing is not especially idiomatic and instinctively avoids the showiness of Walton or Elgar. But the music is simply glorious. The ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. These studio performances, with two committed soloists accompanied by the BBC Symphony under Andrew Davis, do not put ...

It was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor who really gripped the public’s imagination with his Hiawatha cantatas, written at the turn of the 19th century and a staple of the London musical landscape until the ...