listenin to thunder & rain & Delius's Appalachia & readin bout cowpokes
August 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
listenin to thunder & rain & Delius's Appalachia & readin bout cowpokes
Delius’s music on In Tune from Bradford today. This is his birthplace - 6 Claremont, and the nearby German Lutheran Church. Join us live from Bradford Live - 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.
July 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Delius’s music on In Tune from Bradford today. This is his birthplace - 6 Claremont, and the nearby German Lutheran Church. Join us live from Bradford Live - 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.
First off, I'd forgotten how catty Debussy could be as a music critic. On Delius's songs: 'They are very sweet, very pale - music to soothe convalescents in well-to-do neighbourhoods.'
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
First off, I'd forgotten how catty Debussy could be as a music critic. On Delius's songs: 'They are very sweet, very pale - music to soothe convalescents in well-to-do neighbourhoods.'
#NowSpinning Delius’s Appalachia in a recording I have not yet heard. The opening is beautifully delicate. Such a lovely work, full of space and magic.
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#NowSpinning Delius’s Appalachia in a recording I have not yet heard. The opening is beautifully delicate. Such a lovely work, full of space and magic.
Sir Mark Elder, the four soloists, two choirs and BBC Symphony Orchestra after performing Delius's A Mass of Life at the Proms this evening. A beautifully prepared performance, rich in poetry, atmosphere and rapture.
August 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sir Mark Elder, the four soloists, two choirs and BBC Symphony Orchestra after performing Delius's A Mass of Life at the Proms this evening. A beautifully prepared performance, rich in poetry, atmosphere and rapture.
#NowSpinning Delius Brigg Fair with Hickox in Bournemouth. This magical work really doesn’t seem to come up much in discussion. For lovers of folk song, it’s a real beauty, though I know some struggle with Delius’s wandering tonalities.
February 13, 2026 at 6:07 AM
#NowSpinning Delius Brigg Fair with Hickox in Bournemouth. This magical work really doesn’t seem to come up much in discussion. For lovers of folk song, it’s a real beauty, though I know some struggle with Delius’s wandering tonalities.
Now listening to Delius's Paris: The Song of a Great City. An outstanding mono version by Anthony Collins and a first class modern version by Andrew Davis on the player this evening.
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Now listening to Delius's Paris: The Song of a Great City. An outstanding mono version by Anthony Collins and a first class modern version by Andrew Davis on the player this evening.
In Delius’s “Fennimore and Gerda”, the two title characters, both female, never even meet (if I remember correctly)
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
In Delius’s “Fennimore and Gerda”, the two title characters, both female, never even meet (if I remember correctly)
Late night listening: Delius's tone poem On the Mountains. Recordings by Thomas Beecham and Andrew Davis. A great piece for a "name the composer" quiz - I certainly would've struggled to have guessed it right on a first listen.
October 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Late night listening: Delius's tone poem On the Mountains. Recordings by Thomas Beecham and Andrew Davis. A great piece for a "name the composer" quiz - I certainly would've struggled to have guessed it right on a first listen.
Is this the moment to admit that I've never actually listened to any of Delius's music and wouldn't know what it sounds like (although I'm guessing it's the soundtrack of the film?)...
November 5, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Is this the moment to admit that I've never actually listened to any of Delius's music and wouldn't know what it sounds like (although I'm guessing it's the soundtrack of the film?)...
"Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music."
- Frederick Delius
📷 Delius's garden by Elsie Gordon
- Frederick Delius
📷 Delius's garden by Elsie Gordon
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music."
- Frederick Delius
📷 Delius's garden by Elsie Gordon
- Frederick Delius
📷 Delius's garden by Elsie Gordon
All respect to Ken Russell, a proper movie about Delius’s time in Florida would be fantastic.
July 25, 2026 at 3:32 PM
All respect to Ken Russell, a proper movie about Delius’s time in Florida would be fantastic.
Yeah, delius’s music is definitely a style I’d want to be able to emulate one day
September 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Yeah, delius’s music is definitely a style I’d want to be able to emulate one day
★★★★ #BBCProms A MASS OF LIFE #BBCSO #MarkElder - A subtle guide to #Delius's Nietzschean masterpiece, as Mark Elder held back from blasting the audience with a wall of sound - 'bewitching and challenging in equal measure', says @hallibee1.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
BBC Proms: A Mass of Life, BBCSO, Elder review - a subtle guide to Delius's Nietzschean masterpiece
For Delius – then a young man, visiting Norway in the late 1880s to walk in its mountains – his first encounter with Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra was nothing less than an epiphany. Already high ...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
★★★★ #BBCProms A MASS OF LIFE #BBCSO #MarkElder - A subtle guide to #Delius's Nietzschean masterpiece, as Mark Elder held back from blasting the audience with a wall of sound - 'bewitching and challenging in equal measure', says @hallibee1.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Ahead of their performance tonight at the @bbcproms, we're looking back at our interview with Sir Mark Elder and Roderick Williams on Delius's 'A Mass of Life'. Find out more about the challenges involved in getting a handle on this work...
📖 Read here:
https://tinyurl.com/y6erm28n
📖 Read here:
https://tinyurl.com/y6erm28n
August 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ahead of their performance tonight at the @bbcproms, we're looking back at our interview with Sir Mark Elder and Roderick Williams on Delius's 'A Mass of Life'. Find out more about the challenges involved in getting a handle on this work...
📖 Read here:
https://tinyurl.com/y6erm28n
📖 Read here:
https://tinyurl.com/y6erm28n
Guy Braunstein plays his Abbey Road Concerto, VW's The Lark Ascending, and Delius's Violin Concerto.
What a superb violinist!
What a superb violinist!
June 8, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Guy Braunstein plays his Abbey Road Concerto, VW's The Lark Ascending, and Delius's Violin Concerto.
What a superb violinist!
What a superb violinist!
☀️ Good morning - and Happy Solstice! Time to turn up BBC Radio 3. 🎧
Sunrise today comes with the golden glow of Delius’s Daybreak, the hush of James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, and the deep devotion of Oswald’s Myrtle.
📻 I’m live now on BBC Radio 3 - come and say hello!
Sunrise today comes with the golden glow of Delius’s Daybreak, the hush of James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, and the deep devotion of Oswald’s Myrtle.
📻 I’m live now on BBC Radio 3 - come and say hello!
June 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
☀️ Good morning - and Happy Solstice! Time to turn up BBC Radio 3. 🎧
Sunrise today comes with the golden glow of Delius’s Daybreak, the hush of James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, and the deep devotion of Oswald’s Myrtle.
📻 I’m live now on BBC Radio 3 - come and say hello!
Sunrise today comes with the golden glow of Delius’s Daybreak, the hush of James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, and the deep devotion of Oswald’s Myrtle.
📻 I’m live now on BBC Radio 3 - come and say hello!
#UnconfinedWalks back to the Albert Hall again for Delius’s Mass of Life. Think I was a bit too tired to really get it. Might have helped too if there had been a full (German) text with the program rather than just English surtitles
August 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#UnconfinedWalks back to the Albert Hall again for Delius’s Mass of Life. Think I was a bit too tired to really get it. Might have helped too if there had been a full (German) text with the program rather than just English surtitles
Brilliant review for Roderick Williams and Sir Mark Elder at the BBC Proms yesterday! @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus
Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Brilliant review for Roderick Williams and Sir Mark Elder at the BBC Proms yesterday! @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
EIF 2026: I fear there is a reason why Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha is not performed. Very well done but like Delius’s Mass of Life I don’t think it needs to be done again in a hurry.
August 19, 2026 at 10:23 PM
EIF 2026: I fear there is a reason why Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha is not performed. Very well done but like Delius’s Mass of Life I don’t think it needs to be done again in a hurry.
Song of Summer is a fascinating look into the process of music composition and also how disability affects the creative process.
My classical music post for today is Frederick Delius’s A Song of Summer.
My classical music post for today is Frederick Delius’s A Song of Summer.
March 24, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Song of Summer is a fascinating look into the process of music composition and also how disability affects the creative process.
My classical music post for today is Frederick Delius’s A Song of Summer.
My classical music post for today is Frederick Delius’s A Song of Summer.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Delius
Frederick Delius's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little.
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
#Delius
Frederick Delius's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little.
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Le Concert Spirituel
Performance and news from the world of early music.
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August 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Delius
Frederick Delius's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little.
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
#Delius
Frederick Delius's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little.
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
Plenty of vocal riches at Wexford Festival Opera this year, crowned by the revelation of young American soprano Lydia Grindatto in Verdi and a strong recital. Fine stagings of Handel's 'Deidamia' and Zemlinsky's 'The Dwarf'. I loved Delius's 'The Magic Fountain', having caught up with it on YouTube.
theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera 2025 - two strong productions, mostly fine casting, and a star is born
A drawback of choosing relatively or very obscure operas, as they've been mostly doing in Wexford Festival since 1951, is that the audiences probably won’t come out humming the tunes. That changed thi...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Plenty of vocal riches at Wexford Festival Opera this year, crowned by the revelation of young American soprano Lydia Grindatto in Verdi and a strong recital. Fine stagings of Handel's 'Deidamia' and Zemlinsky's 'The Dwarf'. I loved Delius's 'The Magic Fountain', having caught up with it on YouTube.