Robert Gerle: Delius and Barber Violin Concertos
View hereDelius - Songs of farewell
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - The Ambrosian Singers, Eric Fenby - conductor
Songs of farewell N°1
How sweet the silent backward tracings!
The wanderings as in dreams - the meditation of old times resumed -
their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms;
Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;
The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning;
The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;
the aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.
(Walt Whitman)
Songs of farewell N°2
I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky),
The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,
The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps - that inbound urge and
urge of waves,
Seeking the shores forever.
(Walt Whitman)
Songs of farewell N°3
Passage to you!
O secret of the earth and sky!
Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers!
Of you O woods and fields! Of you strong mountains of my land!
Of you O prairies! Of you gray rocks!
O morning red! O clouds! O rain and snows!
O day and night, passage to you!
O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!
Passage to you!
Passage, immediate passage! The blood burns in my veins!
Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
(Walt Whitman)
Songs of farewell N°4
Joy! shipmate joy!
(Pleasd to my soul at death I cry;)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy! shipmate, joy!
(Walt Whitman)
Songs of farewell N°5
Now finalè to the shore,
Now land and life finalè and farewell,
Now Voyager depart; (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
Often enough hast thou adventurd oer the seas,
Cautiously cruising - studying the charts,
Duly again to port and hawsers tie, returning:
But now obey thy cherishd secret wish,
Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
To port and hawsers tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor.
(Walt Whitman)
Delius - Two Songs to be sung on the water
BBC Singers conducted by Simon Joly
Delius: "The Lost Child". Documentary
Part 1 of "The Lost Child"; a documentary describing violinist Tasmin Little's quest to verify Delius's assertion that, when in Florida as a young man, he had a Negro mistress who bore his child.
Part 2
Delius - Irmelin Prelude
Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the Royal Philharmonic.
Delius - Requiem (1913-1916), Playlist
'To the memory of all young artists fallen in the war'
Rebecca Evans, soprano
Peter Coleman-Wright, baritone
Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and the the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox
1. "Our days here are as one day....."
2. "Hallelujah..."
3. "My beloved whom I cherished was like a flower"
4. "I honour the man who can love life..."
