Frederick Delius, Walk to the Paradise Garden, Atkinson Grimshaw
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- Frederick Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert Delius CH (1862- 1934), Walk to the Paradise Garden,
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli.
Works by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836- 1893). "Walk to the Paradise Garden" is the orchestral interlude
between Scenes 5 and 6 of the opera "A Village Romeo and Juliet". The Paradise Garden is actually a dilapidated Pub
where the lover's Sali and Vreli can "dance all night". The rural lover's have known each other since childhood
and are willing to die together rather than give in to the pressures that will seperate them.
This interlude seems to synthesize many elements found in the opera, the "Paradise Garden", a seedy country dance hall
where the two lovers make a pact to do themselves in, a plot of land where they played together during their childhood,
the Dark Fiddler and his simbolic social conflicts, the hay barge which will sink in the river and carry them to their death,
and most of all, the heartbreak of Love; painful it weaves in long almost unbearable phrases,
an operatic play within a play based on the definition of the words "Paradise Garden". - เพลง
There is young people that can appreciate this type of music - I'm 17 and I love this piece and performance! This reminds me of Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe
That is wonderful you are obviously nor British as, sadly, very few younger British would have even heard any classical music. Their heads are full of the thump, thump thump beat of the moronic music fed to them these days. Their minds are so numb they don't even look for other things. Well done-and keep exploring. It makes like so much richer.
Wonderful! Still listening and blessed 2 yrs later?
@@terrybarlow2445 Indeed! I still listen to this piece occasionally but I have also given a change to some music I found boring beforehand, like Schubert's piano music and Mozart's piano concertos. My favourites are still from the impressionistic and neoclassical period though, being an immortal Ravel and Debussy fan
@akselpelkonen6604 in my youth I only seemed to respect and attend to black jazz musicians. Of course, there was a wealth of good there. Have found more recently, though, that I was missing a lot of good music.
I love Grimshaw's paintings. Even the music does these works justice.
My wife was ill for many years and every time she went for an operation this was piece she listened too. She found peace in it.
No one but Delius could have created this lovely music. He was never recognized in the way he should have been.
"never recognized" You are SO RIGHT/CORRECT abiut the GREAT Frederick Delius! His music was every bit as good as Ravel and Debussy just not recognized as m uch.
@@steveburrus9347 definitely
His wife, Yelka, used to write her 'thunder letters' trying to get more performances. But Delius's raw talent, being able to write through the pen of Eric Fenby, is just mind boggling.
THIS IS THE LOVELIEST PIECE EVER!!!
I found this while an undergrad; would listen late into early mornings while studying.
I have loved Delius's music since 1973
With that music we are really walking to paradise... So thank you very much !
Delius's music allows us to breathe into it--its leisurely, poetic, heartfelt---he takes us on a boat ride, asked us to slow down and smell the roses. We do.
Dream on and relax,music for your spirit.
Gorgeous.
Delius-best classical music ever.
Sublime ....
Sublime music masterly conducted by the great Barbirolli, and thank you so much for this beautiful video with Grimshaw's paintings. I discovered this painter a few years ago and I am absolutely fascinated by his work.
Eric Fenby, Delius's assistant in the composer's later years, noted, "The music of Delius is not an acquired taste. One either likes it the moment one first hears it, or the sound of it is once and for ever distasteful to one. It is an art which will never enjoy an appeal to the many, but one which will always be loved, and dearly loved, by the few."
As for me, "You can never be too thin nor too rich, neither can you ever have enough Delius."
YMMV of course.
I am hooked on Delius--his music is elevated, happy and joyful. I need more of this.
Delius has been the sountrack to my life since I was 19. Now 58, I still find it the most deeply felt music I've ever known. Those of us who love it are truelly blessed, I actually feel sorry for those who find nothing in it.
Words can’t describe the beautiful feeling Of tranquility This composes music.
After listening to this, I'm lost for words.
When I was in college, our wind ensemble closed our concert with this piece at a festival. We were all crying by the end.
Music like this creates art in your mind.
Delius is a seriously underrated composer … even in his own country. His lyrical music is a manifestation of the British climate and culture. He needs to be more widely appreciated!
Higgs Boson
Seriously underrated, even in his own country?????? Fuckwit.
Six question marks, where one will do, and a needless insult- hardly signs of great intelligence or wisdom, more of another foolish keyboard warrior. Such a shame so many youtube videos, even of beautiful music, are dragged down
mizofan Your comment is truly appreciated by those of us who love this music and the English language it represents. Profanity only derives from a lack of understanding and usage. So sad for all.
so fucking boring.. I don't know why Brits revere him so highly.. It's all due to nationalism I think
I remember this was playing in the background as I was pottering around my room one day - when that climax around 6:20 started I stopped dead in my tracks. It's not often a piece of orchestral music really reaches me like that. Such original writing.
From a sad but beautiful opera Village Romeo and Juliet made into a movie
This music is so contemplative that it inspired me to contemplate what positivist philosophers have always said. My mind drifts so easily on this beautiful, scattered melodies, sometimes calm, then insistent, warm and close, so intimate, then fleeing on cunning modulations; from major to minor, turning lazily like leaves in a stream !
It brings with it some nostalgia
Beautiful music, beautiful paintings, beautifully put together. Thank you.
What A Heavenly Sound🎵
I heard a rendition of Paradise Garden at the Barbican on Valentines 2015. It is a beautiful tune. Listen to Proms 2012 as well.
This finer place I have either known, or drempt, or imagined, but a finer place nevertheless.
Delightful music and pictures. Restorative to my depressed spirit. Thanks for this.
WoW. I didn't listen classical music from hight school, I love it. Thanks
I Love Music by Delius and the beautiful Romantic paintings by A.Grimshow…Thank you for sharing ! 🙏💙🎼💙👏🌹
Very nice blend with W Atkinson Grimshaw's brilliantly gentle kindly light paintings of evening and autumn light.
R
The most wonderful music you could imagine, and it comes from such a tragic story.
We are truly born.
As Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
This music is exquisite, restful, and contemplative, as are most of Delius' works. The accompaniment of Atkinson Grimshaw's paintings adds the perfect touch. Together the two seduce us into meditative flights of fancy and draw us into the beautiful mysteries of life.
I thought, what beautiful music shall I listen to as this very moment of need for calm. Delius came to mind. Ahhhh, yes.
Thank you for this Delius is on of life's true pleasures. Nice paintings nice music, a very pleasant ten minutes of peace.
Made me cry...again!
Yes, me too!
Reaches that very special place in us. Absolutely stunning.
Merveilleux! absolument merveilleux!!! Quand je commence ma journée en écoutant cette musique tout m'apparait plus beau autour de moi!
This interlude has become a "best of" any Delius concert - a too rare event. We do not know what we should admire at most: the lyrism of melodic cells, the harmonic invention, the soft but consistent orchestration. This interlude is a pure delight ! And in fact it is in some sense a prelude to a drama.
beautiful music .
my good friend is Delius obsessive and a member of the Delius society. has introduced me to so much fab music! i am a fan now! just amazing chords and movement! jazzy! ahead of his time! we are so lucky to have these pieces to enrich our lives!
It's like this amorphous sequence of beautiful harmony. Like an ever changing sea of music. Lovely!
Ineffable beauty. The kiss at 2.27 is (for me) one of the most wonderful moments in all classical music. It sears to the point where joy is painful. Aptly fitting for a Romeo and Juliet story... even if a Village one.
I'm a fan of classical music. I've been listening to it since I was about six years old. Of course, TH-cam has made classical music more accessible to all. The images that accompany the music can either add to or detract from the music. Your images did much to add to the music. The way you slowly moved in on the images, and out again gives the viewer the impression that he is walking through the landscape pictures on the monitor. Very well done!
Thank you for this gift.
I fell in love with the music of Delius after watching Ken Russell's film for the Monitor series on B.B.C. years ago. have been an avid fan since. The opera that this music comes from is well worth watching. The two lovers come from farming families arguing over a strip of land.
Delius and Grimshaw,the perfect combination.
Delius is amazing!,but those paintings too!
A Jewel Day for anyone walking
Grimshaws pictures go well with this music, thanks for making such a nice show.
An eternal contemplation of the beauties of nature.
What a genius !!no one comes close to expressing pure emotion in music beautiful images that complement the music A1
Total beauty, visually and musically. (That Barbirolli recording is still unbeaten.)
@mangott Thank You so much. I too have loved Delius for most of my sixty years. Love this rendition and the artwork. Interesting that it was done by another Yorkshireman.
Love and Peace to all.
Sounds like a John Barry Soundtrack. Marvelous!
Heavenly!
Beautiful 🎶 with amazing art ❤️
Haunting. The second 78 rpm I bought as a kid (after Rhapsody in Blue) was this, and I sat enchanted. And now again, 60 years later, remembering...
Thank you.
Do not know ehy tour comment left me smiling ang reary eyed all at once💕🌸
Sorry for the spelling error. Tears were blocking my eyesight😂😉
I have long been a Baroqueaddict but Frederick Delius and Allan Pettersson have swept in as a fresh breeze in my life. 😁
Delius was a brilliant composer whose music is, sadly, not played often enough. To those who think he is too rich, keep listening You will understand eventually.
Beautiful!
I love this piece of music, and Atkinson Grimshaw's work is fantastic! Well done for putting this together!
Yes…Absolutly Both Artist beautiful ! LOVE…Big Merci ! 👏🙏❤️🎼❤️
Simplemente maravilloso.¡¡
This is beautiful music and lovely painting thank you so much
Thank you for posting this wonderful historic recording of "The Walk," with the lovely pictures that so perfectly match the spirit of the music. As far as I'm concerned, "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" is the best piece of love music ever composed by anyone, and that includes such other wonderful works as Wagner's "Liebestod." IMO, it's impossible to surpass that glorious "thought" beginning at 7:30.
This can score my life. Yes please.
Bored teenagers took to hanging around the main railway station and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Someone decided to play Delius soothing music over the sound system with great effect as the quietly left never to return. His music is anathema to certain ears but not mine by the way. Ian, Perth W.Australia
I've heard of business doing this to keep riff raff away.
The present generation sorely needs exposure to "peace" music----it speaks to the higher side of all us all---must be a God sent .
@@paulbeard4218 there is quite a lot of that among young music, just not on the radio - my daughter says: who in the world is so stupid to search for good music in the radio?!?
i assure you, those who are ready, search and find - the present generation has many, many wide awake persons, who´ll surely make their way, a good way that is... :-)
Paul Beard i feel as though our generation gets that, just to a different extent
Thomas Turner thank you for posting this treasure for all humanity to hear. I’m so glad I could be commenting in May of 2020, to show you that your post is still appreciated and your kindness and good taste may be rewarded by praise during a pandemic, now subsiding.
But not for your post, how many would not have heard this gem? So you’ve done a service to mankind. No less!
This Symphonic Walk to the Paradise Garden, the ebb and flow so much reflects the vagaries of life and its loves and loves lost, unexpected tragedies we must overcome, and the mystery of the unexpected. I’m impressed at the comments below, so erudite and philosophical. Sophisticated music attracts those of us that have lived a big life and have much to contemplate.
Thank you and I wish good health and long life to all those who contribute comments that are positive on this magical post.
I didn't know this music I just knew I loved the but I heard which was on THE GOOD LIFE the first episode where Tom and Barbara are sitting in front of their fire ☺️
¡¡¡UN PARAISO MÚSICAL!!!
+Francisco Ferrer Galiana
¡Eso es!
I LOVE Delius - this is being played at the 31st of july prom with Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and something by Vaughan Williams! SUCH amazing music! I am in love with it!
This classical music evokes a love for the edges of our senses. It touches our subjects and caresses the feelings full of emotions expressed in those few tones hidden under the spring tree lit by the sun in the heavens.
Just perfect 😊
One of the most famous pages of Delius, with his usual lyrical and peaceful inspiration, his clear tonal roots in spite of non-fonctional chords, and its rather simple but sophisticated orchesration. The delicate palette of tones of Delius is ineed marvellous.
Thank you for this music. This is so soothing in this mad world!!!
Magnificent
Un bijou ! (a jewel ?) Merci !
KUDOS to the best combination of the music and the backdrop (Grimshaw)
8:32...Pure heaven.
Yes this is the part that inspired Nick Drake to ask Robson' for his strings on Riverman to "Sound like Delius".
Beautiful, the world of dreams, much nicer than the world we have, I doubt there is a leader in the world who appreciates the message of peace in this music, sadly aggressive people always rule the placid.
Meraviglioso.
@matthewbrown7436 Thank you for watching. I appreciate your feedback and especially your comment on the paintings of Grimshaw....Thank you for your encouragment.
Love this piece. Thanks a lot for posting it.
This picture is splendid❗
It is a very wonderful performance and the work.
Greetings from Japan .
Sayonara！
Lovely, sharing.
I have loved this
intermezzo from the opera ' A Village Romeo and Juliet ' since I was a boy, but was quite disappointed to learn that the ' Paradise Garden' was a rather disreputable public house.
Yes, Delius is a MAJOR composer who is unappreciated by many. He created his own OASIS of sound that is so UNIQUELY BEAUTIFUL and so INTIMATE that very few have the spiritual development to enter and enjoy his sound world.
You come over as being conceited and your literary style is poor. The use of selected capitals suggests that the wording is insuffient unto itself.
Kek, how?
You can denigrate Val's literary style as much as you like, but he/she is correct that Delius is an unappreciated major composer who is uniquely beautiful and intimate. There is no one like Fred!
That was unnecessarily offensive criticism, Freewheeling Frere. We are as free to express our feelings in our own way on these pages as Delius was to write in his uniquely personal style. Not all are aware TH-cam interprets _underscores_ or *asterisks* typed around text as italic and bold formatting, emphasising without recourse to capitals.
You know what is conceited? Unrequested literary analysis.
Klasse DANKE
A fine Bradford lad a true Yorkshireman
Grimshaw too, a Leeds man!
Delius 'paints' his orchestration--its not just vivid orchestration ala Rimsky-Korsakov. he is searching for specific sounds then clothes these sounds in the appropriate instruments. There is a peacefulness, lyrical, pastoral quality to much of his work. We need this music in this troubled world.
The John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings - lone figures walking on roads at dusk/knight.
Álomszép !!!!! Köszönöm szépen!
@rosae25 Thank you so much for your comment and encouragement. For me as well, these two artists are very illuminating... it is great to hear from you.
A sadly under-appreciated composer in my opinion!
I love Delius. His pastoral british language in impressionist techniques with romantic expression makes him truly unique. Sad that most know of Holst, Elgar and Vaughan Williams but not so much of Delius...
Only a genius could capture the rapture of the beloved's kiss @ 2:25
The great nick drake was a fan of delius and was an influence in his own work 😊
@zoranrosendahl As earlier requested, the last painting is entitled "Old Chelsea" which depicts the tower of Chelsea Old Church from Cheyne Row, a Chelsea Pensioner and his young guardian are making their way homeward. In the video, the paintings prior to this, the barge has sunk and the river flows on, a couple has reappeared on a moonlit street,,, everyone will probably have a different interpretation as to what Old Chelsea is about...