Delius - Summer Evening, Florida Suite & Orchestral Works / REMASTERED (Ct.rc.: Sir Thomas Beecham)

Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Beautiful Orchestral Works / REMASTERED
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00:00 Florida Suite - I. Daybreak, Dance (Remastered 2022)
10:23 Florida Suite - II. By the River (Remastered 2022)
17:38 Florida Suite - III. Sunset, Near the Plantation (Remastered 2022)
27:23 Florida Suite - IV. At Night (Remastered 2022)
35:00 Summer Evening (Remastered 2022)

The full album available on youtube music and on the main streaming platforms through the links above:    • Florida Suite - I. Daybreak, Dance (R...  

Sleigh Ride (Winternacht) (Remastered 2022)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Remastered 2022)
Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody (Remastered 2022)
Marche Caprice (Remastered 2022)
Dance Rhapsody No. 2 (Remastered 2022)
On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring - Two Pieces for small Orchestra (Remastered 2022)
Summer Night on the River - Two Pieces for small Orchestra (Remastered 2022)
A Song before Sunrise (Remastered 2022)
Fennimore and Gerda: lntermezzo (Remastered 2022)
Irmelin Prelude (Remastered 2022)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded in 1957-60
New mastering in 2022 by AB for CMRR
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Sir Thomas Beecham is Frederick Delius' major performer. As an instrumental introduction we recommend the magnificent "Florida Suite" (00:00; 03:29; 10:49; 13:40; 17:50; 31:28…) or in 35:00 "Summer Evening". In the case of Delius / Beecham, we could say that they have an equal role and this is certainly what makes the difference between the 'creative performer' and the simple performer (plays notes without daring to take more risk than following the score).

This is perhaps an appropriate moment to make the point that in general terms Beecham hardly ever tampered with the notes of a Delius score: what he did was to alter or modify practically every one of Delius's expression marks, and his dynamic marks as well, before introducing his own interpretative ideas: and while these are more easily appreciated by the ear with the aid of a score than explained in words, there are some striking examples in Songs of Sunset: in the song 'Exceeding Sorrow', for instance, as the singer reaches the word 'silence' in the line 'Let a pale silence prevail' Beecham suddenly reduces the orchestral strings to a whisper with magical effect; and in the solo for the baritone, 'By the sad waters of separation', he uses a distinctly slower speed for the long central passage, only reverting to the original tempo at the words 'If you be dead'. Then in On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, which with its companion piece Summer Night on the River was his next Delius discovery, there is a passage where he would sometimes transfer on to solo instruments notes which the score indicates should be played by all the violas and cellos in the orchestra. But with his command over the orchestra, and the ease of his style, all these adjustments come across with perfect naturalness.

The whole question of his approach to Delius's music was touched on once in an interview he gave to Edmund Tracey, who was trying to find out the reasons for Beecham's so-called 'special understanding' of this elusive music. But when he supposed that Beecham had discussed Delius's scores often with him the conductor replied that he had never done so: 'Why should l? He couldn't tell me anything about them...! What occasionally happened was that I would say to him, "Now, Frederick, I want to ask you what you want done here": and he would say "Well, I can't remember now so do anything you like with it..." Then when he heard them on the radio or in the concert-room he'd say. "That's the way I want it. Don't change that..."'

The full album available on youtube music and on the main streaming platforms through the links above:    • Florida Suite - I. Daybreak, Dance (R...