Portrait of Frederick Delius: Life and work of the English Romantic composer
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- The extraordinary adventure of Frederick Delius' early and middle years and the circumstances in which he produced his greatest music are revealed through rehearsal and performance of a selection of his work by artists now discovering and currently championing his music, including Sir Charles Mackerras, the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, violinist Tasmin Little, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, baritone Thomas Hampson, the Brindisi Quartet, the Brabant Orchestra of Holland, conducted by Richard Armstrong and the Brighton Festival Chorus.
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Additional documentary sequences include Robert Threlfall of the Delius Trust explaining his continuing work on the complete edition and his fascinating research into the original manuscripts and Sir Thomas Beecham’s editing; Felix Aprahamian, the distinguished critic talks about Delius’s operas, his life in Paris and his own personal experience of meeting Delius in France; the composer Anthony Payne explains the different instruments and sounds of Delius’s music and how it has influenced him; and Dr. Eric Fenby talks about his time with the composer.
Accompanying the music are sequences, specially filmed in the landscape Delius loved in Norway, and in the garden by the river at the house in Grez-sur-Loing, South of Paris, where Delius and his wife made their home. An extract from Ken Russell’s celebrated film on Delius, A Song of Summer, is also featured.
The music chosen focuses on the landmarks of Delius’s creativity and reveals every aspect of his compositional style and includes extracts from the film of A Village Romeo and Juliet, featuring Thomas Hampson; A Mass of Life from the 1992 Brighton Festival; Sir Charles Mackerras and the Welsh National Opera rehearsing and performing The Song of the High Hills and movements from the Florida Suite. Tasmin Little discusses, rehearses and performs the Concerto for Violin and Piano; the Sonata for Cello and Piano is performed by Julian Lloyd Webber; and the Brindisi Quartet rehearses and performs Late Swallows from the String Quartet.
Directed by Derek Bailey, 1993.
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For Delius' fans like me, it's very interesting and touching to hear more about the context of his life, and have opinions about his work given by professionals.
In 1976 My dad gave me at age16 a short wave Gen electric plug end shortwave radio and heard many composers including On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring I become glued to classical music since!!!
Two years ago,I heard On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring and was mesmerized. I started researching his music and have fallen in love with it. At 71, it speaks to me and makes me so nostalgic as I reflect on my life.
I´m colombian and Delius is one of my favorite composers. There are no cultural barriers to beauty in art
This is such an excelent film.
As a musician and composer who comes from a musical family, I always thought that Delius deserved much greater recognition for his accomplishments. His magnificent works affect me just as deeply as Beethoven, Mozart and other greats.
I'm delighted to have found this look into Delius' life with insight into the feeling of longing that pervades his appealing music. Thank you!
Fredrick Delious music lives on!!
I am always keen to hear or read about the lives of composers whose music I like, because it provides an insight and added dimension to appreciating their music. This program does just that. Thank you
Glad you like it! :)
Such beautiful music
Fascinating to hear his story xx
Yes I'm a fan + Thankyou for this great post. ! It was so good to hear Sir Charles adding the Gershwin hint, as I had as boy, '47 -'52 had seen & heard so many USA films & scores [ Saturday morning Film shows ] A & B movies, + Cartoons. Being in a school Orchestra @ only 8yrs old & mad about music,..the Cinema surround sound was so impressive and stuck. I am also a fan of old Black & White movies & scores, and so years later I began to hear traces of Delius in the old film scores, he obviously had many fans in the film industry.
What a great bio. I know Delius pretty well, or at least thought I did. But this piece brought all sorts of things to my attention I'd never before encountered. BTW, it was thanks to Ken Russell's Song of Summer that I discovered this wonderful and sadly underrated musical genius. If there's one thing Russell was, it was a tireless champion of British music.
I don't know too much about composers but I love Delius and Cyril Scott. They were friends too from what I've read.
I recently got a record of Delius from Goodwills, I always have been hoping to find a record from a great relatively forgotten composer, I am definitely glad to have found that record, his music is fascinating, great music
Wonderful age of TH-cam and Google Now we can dig up kind of lost of old but revived music for young generations!!
@@user-qv6lb5vy4b before the internet and TH-cam, only really pieces that are marketable enough to be performed, played on the radio, or professionally recorded and distributed would be available. Now with the internet, you can listen to practically any piece recorded easily, without any risk of spending money on a piece you may or may not like. Makes discoverability so much more accessible.
Frederick Delius è stato non solo uno dei maggiori compositori del suo tempo ma un grande cittadino del mondo,la sua musica si può affermare che resta profondamente inglese raffinata evocativa struggente ma ha qualcosa che rompe con le barriere nazionali in verità è universale.Grazie per questo contributo su questo grande musicista.
It is an interesting exercise to attempt to name another composer whose work resembles that of Delius. One can also name specific works that might resemble each other.
For example, I think the Florida Suite resembles Ferde Grofe’s Mississippi Suite. I think it also resembles Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Then it is instructive to attempt to spell out the differences between the two works.
With regards to Delius’ mature style, I like to cite Chausson’s Poeme de l’amour et la mer as having a style similar to Songs of Sunset. The harmonic language is similar as both use added notes and ninths and thirteenth chords.
Thanks for the Chausson rec, yeah it's difficulty finding something similar to Delius late style, sporadically some impressionist or british pastoral composers come close but I usually don't get the same sense of constant flow of melody and richness in harmony
Very well done, informative and touching documentary. Delius seems to have been at the same time intractable and sensitive
One of Bradford’s finest sons.
brilliant
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Can music be seen, if it is the music of Delius, the answer is yes.
Great to hear from Tamsin Little.
I believe this review was made in 1984!
Going anywhere? Hey these movements of the heart have survived many music styles and types and revives and gets repopularized!!
Great documentary. When was this made?
The film is from 1993, by Derek Bailey.
may I ask what was the title of the background music in the first clip?
From :00 to :41 is almost exactly four minutes into the 3rd movement "Sunset -- Near the Plantation" of Florida Suite, just prior to the "thunderstorm". The tune is commonly interpreted as the orange grove workers ending their day. This musical excerpt is repeated in this documentary at 2:14 with mention that it is from Florida Suite and unfortunately, the excerpt ends just as the "thunderstorm" is about to begin. Online, the William Boughton version online and of course the Sir Thomas Beecham versions are the best, IMO.
@@philipgaylord9815 Thank you so much! and have a great day ahead
Wasn't it used in " Brideshead "..????
Maybe there is a mood and an opportunity now for art music to reflect the coming affect on nature by climate change.
An orchestra doesnt have to be large and can be led by a lady playing an instrument such as a cello or violin!! Equal opportunity for all ages and races!!
After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph(gramophone) and record disk the first music to come to America was classical So this is America's original music!!
WHAT YEAR IS THIS FROM..????????? QUARTET....WOMAN HAS FLIP-FLOPS ON.....HOW DISGUSTING...........
'93, I think.
It's always astonishes me when I think that in 1911 - a few short years before the great cataclysm that was the first World War - Delius was writing his unforgettable Ode to Norway (A Song of the High Hills) and Vaughan Williams was forever immortalizing his beloved London with his 2nd Symphony (He had immortalized a Theme by one Thomas Tallis the year before!). That two such unequivocal English geniuses could produce such everlastingly unforgettable works - simultaneously! - is just beyond the imagination... but I am forever in debt to the One that gave the gift of music to two such unprepossessing landscape painters🎼 in sound. Mike D.
That flute sound I have a name for it and I name it Running Waters!!
Boy the great musicians and composers today can certainly learn from Delius and Mr Mr Felix is right about music from the heart!!
So romantic I could cry! Such romance in a very youthful sense!!
The blue marks are called Hairpins!!
The flutes make the most beautiful sounds in classical movements!!