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Once I Passed Through a Populous City -
Drawing from previous works i.e. Margot-le-Rouge this work was created based on a story by Delius' friend Robert Nichols, created around Walt Whitman's prose.
The theme is typically Delian, reflections on lost love and the transience of things. life and death in all it's bitter sweetness.
The repeated line being - 'Day by Day, Night by Night We Were Together', and with the wish for 'Time and Space enough to last', - ending with the ultimate contemplation of death.
Images with the iconic backdrop of Paris throughout, watch out for images of artist Jelka Rosen, later to become Mrs. Delius, and of the famous Creamery, often frequented by Delius and his many artist friends.
Frederick Delius - 1862-1934 - An English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. There he soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe. Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War.
Note about Eric Fenby :-
In his later years Delius became blind and severely disabled, unable to complete his life's work. In 1928 a music teacher and fellow Yorkshireman from Scarborough offered his services as an amanuensis to the blind and paralyzed composer. This was to allow a radiant Indian Summer in the final years at Grez.. Composing continued with the aid of Eric Fenby taking down the notes, offering his complete devotion to Delius. Fenby also enabled the completing, reshaping and promoting of so much of Delius' previous work. The story has been beautifully told in Ken Russell's iconic film still available on this channel.
The 'Idyll' was first performed at a Promenade concert in October 1933, under Sir Henry Wood, Dora Labette & Roy Henderson being soloists.
Album Info:-
'Delius Requiem and Idyll'
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Choral Society under Meredith Davies.
Heather Harper - Soprano
John Shirley-Quirk - Baritone.
EMI Records 1968.
From vinyl disc.

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from vinyl copy.
ASD 2397.