Delius: Orchestral Works - Raphael Wallfisch, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934)

Paris - Song of a Great City, for orchestra (1899) 

Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (1915-16) 

Concerto for cello and orchestra (1921) 

Violin: Tasmin Little, Cello: Raphael Wallfisch

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Mackerras

Delius: Violin Concerto • Irmelin Prelude • La Calinda /Georg Tintner/Symphony Nova Scotia

TINTNER MEMORIAL EDITION • VOLUME 10

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Violin Concerto • Irmelin Prelude • La Calinda • The Walk to the Paradise Garden

Intermezzo from ‘Fennimore and Gerda’ • On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Summer Night on the River • Sleigh Ride  Performances recorded 5-6th December 1991

I hadn’t associated Georg Tintner with Delius—or, for that matter, with some of the other music offered by Naxos in this commemorative series. If we think that only British conductors can do credit to British music, that is to forget Monteux’s Elgar…or Karajan’s Holst…. Tintner’s Delius is not quite in that category, but I have to say that he makes a very credible and creditable case for all the music on this generously-timed album. If you’d played it to me blind and told me that these were lost Beecham, Barbirolli or Handley recordings, I might well have believed you. It’s not as if there was much competition in the Violin Concerto—notably from Pougnet and Beecham (1949) on Naxos Historical ()—though it’s not in the same league as the concertos for Cello and Violin and Cello, it’s well worth hearing. The recording, made in a church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, offers a believable sound-picture.

 Review By Brian Wilson,MusicWeb International,January 2011

ANOTHER ADITION FROM OUR FRIEND STUBBINS

20th Century Masterpieces : 100 Years of Classical Music. Volume 1

20th Century Masterpieces : 100 Years of Classical Music
EMI Classics, 2008

Vol.1 - CDs 01-08

The works in this set of 16 CDs have been arranged in strict chronological order of composition, the first disc beginning with a work from 1901 that has become one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire, mainly through its use in another great 20th-century art form - film (Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto). Thereafter each disc in the set takes the listener on a fascinating journey through the century, composer by composer and work by work, from Russian Romanticism, French Impressionism, English Pastoralism, Atonalism, Neo Classicism right up to Post Modernism, and from as wide a range of countries and genres as possible.