Delius: Violin Concerto - Tasmin Little.

Frederick Delius - 1862-1934 - An English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. There he soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe. Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War.
In his later years Delius became blind and severely disabled, unable to complete his life's work. In 1928 a music teacher and fellow Yorkshireman from Scarborough offered his services as an amanuensis to the blind and paralyzed composer. This was to allow a radiant Indian Summer in the final years at Grez.. Composing continued with the aid of Eric Fenby taking down the notes, offering his complete devotion to Delius. Fenby also enabled the completing, reshaping and promoting of so much of Delius' previous work. The story has been beautifully told in Ken Russell's iconic film 'A Song of Summer' available on this channel
On this video:- The Delius Violin Concerto which was composed at the Delius home in Grez sur Loing during 1916. The first performance took place at the Queens Hall London in 1919. The soloist was Albert Sammons to whom the work is dedicated.
This music seems to breathe the pure air of an English landscape particularly in Autumn 'somewhere up north' as they say...

Above all Delius was a perfect musical poet of Mother Nature in all her varied moods.

Enjoy!
Album Info:-

'The Delius Edition' Disc 4.

Dated 2012, celebrating 150 years since the composer's birth.

Tasmin Little - Violin

Welsh National Opera Orchestra - Charles Mackerras

Decca Records

478 3078.
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