The great English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham said of the Frederick Delius Violin Concerto of 1916, "it has considerable melodic beauty and is structurally entirely logical and effective. It also ...

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 ...

Alan Smale's role as leader of the NSO has always been to get the best from conductor and players Alan Smale's role as leader of the NSO has always been to get the best from conductor and players. Now ...

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 ...

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a concert which includes music by Vaughan Williams and Delius, influenced by World Wars I and II. Tonight's programme, live from Bridgewater Hall in ...

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 ...

Frederick Delius was born on January 29, 1862 in Bradford, in the north of England. To celebrate his birthday, here's an introduction and biography and some recent Delius recording recommendations ...

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, ...

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THERE is no equivalent of the Bruckner organization to make propaganda for the music of Frederick Delius, and probably it’s just as well, because the art of Delius requires no apologists, although it ...

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 ...

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, ...