Delius: Orchestral Works Vol.3

London Philharmonic Orchestra;
BBC Chorus;
Beecham, Thomas;
Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus;
Studio Orchestra;
Gucht, Jan van der

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Beecham's single-minded championship of Delius's music has passed into legend. From the moment he first heard it in 1907 he was captive of its strange romantic beauty, and its hold over him remained firm. During the next fifty years he gave incomparable performances of the greater part of Delius's orchestral and vocal output, including three of the six operas; he unearthed early pieces, arranged others and recorded the music extensively; he brought out his own editions of the scores, and wrote a full-length biography of the composer. It was a feat surely without parallel in the twentieth century: certainly it is safe to assert that never has a composer's music been promoted to widespread acceptance by a single executive musician in quite this way.

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Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

02-05-2000

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