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Composer of the Week: Delius

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.
5: The Years in France
Frederic Delius spent the majority of his life in France. There he met his future wife and subsequently moved with her to the artists' colony of Grez-sur-Loing, near
Fontainebleau. Sadly, he was to suffer a long descent into illness and total paralysis, a torment slightly eased by the arrival at Grez of Eric Fenby , a young Yorkshireman who came to work as Delius's assistant in his last years. Violin Sonata in B (1st mvt)
Tamsin Little, Piers Lane (piano)
Le Ciel Est, Par-dessus le Toit (Two Songs, 1895) Felicity Lott (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor),
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Eric Fenby
In a Summer Garden (first version) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ashley Lawrence Violin Sonata No 3
Tamsin Little, Piers Lane (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Eric Fenby
Piano:
Piers Lane
Soprano:
Felicity Lott
Soprano:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Conductor:
Eric Fenby
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence

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