music worth listening to.

I discovered Delius more then 40 years ago via a radio program in my country with the title "Portrait of an unknown composer". I immediately loved his music and still do. This performance with Sir Charles Mackerras is outstanding and the sound quality is magnificent. Thank you !

Thank you for providing this. I thought my heart was dead. Now, after hearing this, it seems not so dead as I had thought it to be. Thank you, again.

@thedeliuschannel

2 ай бұрын

The best therapy ever for those who can simply listen.

Really love this.Peace and calm in this turbulent world.

Uniquely luscious and haunting! Only Delius could have created this masterpiece!

Warm thanks and greetings from Sweden!

Speaking as a Delian, just WOW!

There are three recent men worth a hoot - Messiaen, Debussy and Delius. They rejigged the forms and orchestration and made improvisation possible for orchestral music. I am in love with their works. I used to think there are only two subjects for art - the land and the people. But there is also God.

@thedeliuschannel

10 ай бұрын

Inspiration taken from nature each time. Thank you for this lovely comment.

Thank you for posting this haunting music and images. It's nice to see that many people around the world can share this aesthetic experience!

I first got to know Delius after seeing a documentary on BBC2 about him and his music. Even though I have had had a love of various classical music for years I was amazed I had never come across him. Then I went to HMV only to find not a single album by him. At least half a dozen every other well known composer but nothing g by poor Freddy.🙄 Go figure

@thedeliuschannel

Жыл бұрын

You have to search a little deeper for the real gems ....... there is plenty of choice for his major works of note, less so for some of his choral works, sonatas and concertos. Used to shop around all the record shops before the advent of on-line it's so sadly a wonder how any high street recorded music outlets can survive. Thanks for the comment. Hope you find something else to enjoy on the channel. Jayne Anne

Wow, I'm speechless. I always thought Debussy and Ravel were great, but this is a whole new level of musical genius excellence. Thank you uploading and sharing with the KZread world.

@rozb554

Жыл бұрын

It's absolutely sublime.

@thedeliuschannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@christophneulinger5694

Жыл бұрын

DEBUSSY, RAVEL AND! DELIUS ARE GREAT. AND THANKFULLY DIFFERENT. 🏵

@courtneysettepani9782

Жыл бұрын

@@rozb554but not quite Sublime. Now that’s music! 😂

The extremely beautiful English music, and the music of Frederick Delius in particular. It brings an atmosphere rich in images and impressions. A marvel of musical writing... Many thanks for this beautiful sharing !

Thank you so much for uploading this unique tone-poetry. Delius' lyricism is indeed rare and unsurpassable. And the performance here is excellent!

A wonderful evocative piece. I think it is Delius's finest. Well, I'm very wedded to the North of England and this piece conjures up its splendid, sometimes bleak, countryside.

@thedeliuschannel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bill, great comment. Delius had a good deal of Yorkshire and the North of England in his soul.

Hullo! I love Delius, but had never heard this super piece, which is surely one of his best, most ambitious, purely orchestral works. Lovely stuff, and matched by so many beautiful pictures. Many thanks!

@thedeliuschannel

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Philip, thank you for this most welcome feedback.

What an absolutely beautiful piece of music.

So during the music wars of the late1960s and early70s the classic music haters thought they could replace their music for ours? It didn't work thank God melodious meditational classics survive today!!!

Thank you for uploading this treasure.

Your images of this wonderful music are superb you capture the mood of the music perfectly Thank you

@feline1104

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark.

I said I searched through the radio times this week and there isn’t a single piece of Delius. I’ll have to right a thunder letter to Beecham. Thanks to Ken Russel for song of summer.

A comment below about this being as close as Delius ever came to writing a symphony got me to thinking. I think it IS a de facto symphony: it has four movements (most symphonies have four movements), each piece can stand alone but the four movements together comprise a musical statement. 2021.

@thedeliuschannel

2 жыл бұрын

A symphony of 'Nature' by one who could best transcribe her moods in musical tones. Thanks for this thoughtful comment. x

@samaritan29

2 жыл бұрын

butr is it in sonata form??????

@notmyworld44

2 жыл бұрын

@@samaritan29 No. Definitely not. It is a collection of 4 lovely tone paintings with nothing to connect them except the unique loveliness of Delius's style. This is opinion of a retired veteran of nearly 40 years of symphony performance, but I welcome counter-comments.

@samaritan29

2 жыл бұрын

@@notmyworld44 than its not a symphony

@notmyworld44

2 жыл бұрын

@@samaritan29 Not in sonata form. Not a symphony.

I. Autumn 00:01 II. Winter Landscape 08:14 III. Dance 12:35 IV. The March of Spring 19:23

This was a new discovery. Thank you very much for taking the rouble to upload and put together with such beautiful pictures.

@thedeliuschannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this comment, much appreciated.

Can hear his influence on American film music

Exquisite beauty. Heartfelt thanks. Jen.

Thank you for the post. This is the first time I heard these by Delius. Delius is a modern composer but Winter Landscape 08:14 is modern-modern. It's really a gem. Can't say enough but thank you for this channel.

@thedeliuschannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.

I am new to the music of Frederick Delius and this is lovely. Thank you for taking the time and energy to create this very nice honor of his music.

@thedeliuschannel

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Duane, and thank you for the kind comment. Jayne Anne.

@notmyworld44

2 жыл бұрын

Duane, you must hear his "Florida Suite". It's the very epitome of poetic beauty in music!

@duanereed1857

2 жыл бұрын

@@notmyworld44 Thank you for your suggestion to listen to the "Florida Suite". I took your advise and listened to it several times over the last two days. I listened to two different orchestras play it and listened to several sections multiple times. You are right; as you said above, "It's the very epitome of poetic beauty in music". Often exciting, but mostly lush, gorgeous and serene. Thanks!

@notmyworld44

2 жыл бұрын

@@duanereed1857 I'm very glad to share that with you, Duane. I was born in Florida 77 years ago, and spent my earliest childhood there. I feel that Delius perfectly captured the serene beauty of that state in his music. I recently discovered his symphonic poem "Hiawatha". I can't remember what video site it was on, but it was the very next music that Delius wrote after he composed "Florida". It's worth a KZread search.

First time hearing Delius and it is extraordinary!

@thedeliuschannel

Жыл бұрын

Once heard and loved forever smitten. Thank you.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this piece always feels like the closest Delius ever got to writing a symphony. It shares more than a few characteristics with VW's Pastoral symphony, a work that breaks the symphonic formula and is quite un symphonic.

@thedeliuschannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your enlightened comment. You make a very good point.

It is so lovely music, ans it reminds me of spring and sunshine...

England oh England…

Great scenic classicals!!!

Beautiful! Thanks

I enjoyed that .thank-you

What a wonderful age we are now in! A variety of choice of songs and music for the occasion!!

This melody and performance can only be said to be wonderful . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

@iakovosarvanitis8812

3 жыл бұрын

Good day from Grèce!!!

@shin-i-chikozima

3 жыл бұрын

@@iakovosarvanitis8812 Thank-you Tokyo continues hot days Old people are busy with vaccinating , Soon I will do Take care of yourself Someday please come to Japan Beyond description's delicious foods , specutacular heartfelt hospitality , and unfathomable amazing and marvellous things wait for you Good luck ！

Just one mistake by Feline throughout all of the glorious photographic images used across four fabulous movements - during IV. The March of Spring, at about 22:16, is an image of autumn leaves on branches in the foreground. Otherwise, a thoroughly enjoyable journey through three English seasons.

@thedeliuschannel

Жыл бұрын

well spotted! Some times those Autumn leaves are reluctant to go especially on the English Oak, they can cling on into the next Spring!

@nunyabusnus3740

Жыл бұрын

There's always one.

Amazing.

Today there is funk and blam blam blam! What does a person get out of that?

Great pictures and great music!

@thedeliuschannel

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. A much appreciated comment.

I've never understood why Delius doesn't seem to be performed much in the US. In college, I played in an orchestra which did his Brigg Fair, which is a beatuiful piece. I don't think I ever heard any of his music here otherewise, and I used to attend cncerts in a major city for several years. If you don't have it, find the boxed set of Sir Thomas Beecham onducting a lot of Delius's works. Some of the recordings are historic, but the sound is OK even on the old recordings.

@thedeliuschannel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Charles. Sadly too little of this fine music is played today generally Sir T. Beecham is the best advocate but not always a favourite for every piece of Delius. Delius as in his life, is unique and seems very remote even in the established classical circles. There will come a time for Delius and we need this deep passion now I think.

Anyone who has studied history knows electric music couldn't exist because in Delius time there wasn't electricity for modern rock or hard music to exist besides hard music doesn't have the melody that soft classical has to blend in with nature for quiet meditation!

Unlistenable - so many ads, every 4 minutes appx. Give it a miss guys.

@thedeliuschannel

29 күн бұрын

Sorry, can't do anything about the ads. KZread is becoming less entertaining and more exasperating SADLY!

Anyone who has studied history knows electric music couldn't exist because in Delius time there wasn't electricity for modern rock or hard music to exist besides hard music doesn't have the melody that soft classical has to blend in with nature for quiet meditation!

@thedeliuschannel

2 ай бұрын

Yes, and Delius was the Master of coaxing all in Mother Nature out of lush those orchestral tones.