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News
Our next Summer Music festival will be at Paxton House from 4th – 6th June 2010.
New CD release – Frederick Delius: Violin Sonatas
Released by Naxos on 1st June the CD comprises all four violin sonatas by Delius recorded by Summer Music founding artists, Susanne Stanzeleit and Gusztáv Fenyő. Frederick Delius (1862-1934) was one of the most original of English composers yet much of his work was neglected for decades: these sonatas represent the composer at his most lyrical and intimate, and span his entire composing career.
Beneath the shimmering surface of Delius’s little-known violin sonatas are the latent exuberance and nostalgic rapture which have made his orchestral music so popular. Across the decades separating the B major Violin Sonata of 1892 from the Third Violin Sonata of 1930, Delius developed a unique musical language which leavened the post-Romantic heritage of Wagner with French Impressionism and European and Afro-American folk idioms; an intoxicating mix that moved Sir Thomas Beecham to call him ‘the last great apostle in our time of beauty and romance in music’.
Available from Music-Makers at a special introductory price of £5.50, including postage & packing (cheque payable to Music-Makers). All proceeds will be donated in support of the 2010 Paxton weekend.
Naxos 8.572261
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