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DELIUS (THE BEST OF)

Composer(s):Delius, Frederick
Artist(s)
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Opera • Orchestral
Catalogue 8.556837
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 9.99
 

 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 

Frederick Delius had a strong champion in the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who praised the composer as “the last great apostle of romantic beauty in music”. This rhapsodic intensity of feeling is nowhere more evident than in the luscious harmonies of his exquisite idylls, The Walk to the Paradise Garden and On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring. La Calinda, from Delius’ second opera, Koanga, has achieved worldwide popularity.


   




Review By John Puccio,Sensible Sound,August 2008

Now incorporating themes from Symphony 8 as well, this is the first edition of the Samale-Mazzuca-Phillips-Cohrs Finale that sounds entirely like Bruckner from beginning to end, with many of the new linking passages subtly revised to be brought more fully within the composer’s idiom. Wildner’s hand on the orchestral tiller is very secure, the orchestra is disciplined, the sound very natural. Wildner has great control or orchestral ensemble and dynamics. This is a great first choice of completed version, following a full digestion of Harnoncourt’s presentation of the fragments alone



Review By John Sunier,Audiophile Audition,June 2008






 

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