Delius: Mass Of Life Orchestral & Concertos Choir Chandos

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FREDERICK DELIUS

COMPACT DISC ONE

Requiem

30:52

'Our days here are as one day...' -

8:44

'Hallelujah...' -

5:13

III

'My beloved whom I cherished was like a flower.' -

4:02

'I honour the man who can love life...' -

4:42

'The snow lingers yet on the mountains...'

8:11

A Mass of Life

98:27

First Part

'O Du mein Wille, Du Wende aller Not!'

5:45

'Erhebt eure Herzen, meine Brüder...'

1:53

III

'In dein Auge schaute ich jüngst, O Leben.'

13:04

'Wehe mir!' -

2:37

10.

'Nacht ist es...'

9:11

COMPACT DISC TWO

Second Part

On the Mountains: Andante -

4:51

'Herauf! Nun herauf, du großer Mittag!'

4:36

'Süße Leier! Ich liebe deinen Ton...!

5:08

III

'La, la, la!...'

18:28

'Heißer Mittag schläft auf den Fluren.' -

14:36

'Gottes Weh ist tiefer...' -

4:21

'Kommt. Laßt uns jetzt wandeln!'

13:49

Solo: Jean Rigby contralto

Solo: Joan Rodgers soprano

Solo: Nigel Robson tenor

Solo: Peter Coleman-Wright baritone

Solo: Rebecca Evans soprano

Choral: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus

Choral: Waynflete Singers

Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Richard Hickox

9 June, 5-7 July 1996

Hickox gives a glowing account of this ambitious setting of a German text drawn from Nietzche’s Also sprach Zarathustra. He is helped by excellent singing and playing from his Bournemouth forces, and by fine solo singing, notably from the soprano Joan Rodgers. The full and atmospheric Chandos recording confirms the primacy of this version even over the excellent earlier recordings, the Requiem, half an hour long makes ideal coupling, emerging as a fine example of Deliu’s later work Here too - with Rebecca Evans this time as soprano soloist - Hickox conducts a most persausive performance, ripely recorded. The Pengiun Guide – 1000 Greatest Classical Recordings 2011-12

'…pride of place goes to the present offering not least for its spectacularly superior sound transparently capturing the stillest moments in a spaciousness gorgeously, gloriously, tumultuously filled at the climaxes.'

Fanfare

'…Hickox proved in his 1996 recording, here reissued, that given a sumptuous recording, sensitive orchestral playing and expert choral and solo singing, it can emerge as a truly great one [work].'

'A full and atmospheric Chandos recording confirms this as a first choice.'

The Guardian

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