NORAH SCOTT TURNER (soprano)
DAVID WISE (violin)
ANTONIA BUTLER (violoncello)
ERNEST LUSH (pianoforte)
DAVID WISE AND ERNEST LUSH
Sonata No. 2
DELIUS is a late convert to chamber music. In his early days, as with all true romantic composers, he had no great liking for a medium which tends to constrict the wings of inspiration. Moreover, his sense of harmony, which somewhat over-rules his feeling for counterpoint, does not easily lend itself to sonata and other set forms. Nothing of this, however, entirely detracts from the beauty with which Delius clothes all his ideas, and chamber music players include Delius in their repertory on terms of equality with the more orthodox sonata composers. Of his chamber music works, this Sonata, and particularly the 'Cello Sonata which concludes this programme, are considered the best of his essays in this form.
NORAH SCOTT TURNER
11 pleure dans mon coeur
(There are tears in my heart) (Poems by La lune blanche (The sil- Verlaine) very moon)
Chanson d'automne (Song of Autumn)
ANTONIA BUTLER
Serenade (Hassan) Elegy
'HASSAN', a play of the East, was written by the late James Elroy Flecker , poet and dramatist. The incidental music was composed by his friend Delius, to whom the atmosphere of the play appealed. It was beautifully staged by Basil Dean at His Majesty's Theatre in 1923, and had a run of 281 performances. This is an arrangement of the Serenade, one of the many striking numbers from the music which has been made into a concert suite by Delius's friend and sometime amanuensis, Eric Feaby.
DAVID WISE
Legend
NORAH SCOTT TURNER
To Daffodils (Herrick)
So white, so soft, so sweet is she
(Ben Jonsori )
ANTONIA BUTLER AND ERNEST LUSH
Sonata