Delius: Sea Drift, Songs Of Sunset, Etc / Hickox, Terfel

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Chandos
Release Date
August 28, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DELIUS, FREDERICK
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bornemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Hickox
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 28, 2015
    • UPC
      095115186824
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10868 X
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. Sea Drift

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Bryn Terfel

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    2. No. 1. How sweet the silent backward tracings! (Double Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    3. No. 2. I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    4. No. 3. Passage to you! O secret of the earth and sky! (Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    5. No. 4. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Double Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    6. No. 6. Now finale to the shore (Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    7. No. 1. A song of the setting sun! (Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    8. No. 2. Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sally Burgess, Bryn Terfel

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    9. No. 3. Pale amber sunlight fails (Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    10. No. 4. Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart! (Mezzo-Soprano)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sally Burgess

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    11. No. 5. By the sad waters of separation (Baritone)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Bryn Terfel

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    12. No. 6. See how the trees and osiers lithe (Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    13. No. 7. I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (Baritone)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Bryn Terfel

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    14. No. 8. They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Chorus)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sally Burgess, Bryn Terfel

      Conductor: Richard Hickox



5 out of 5 stars for Performance and Sound!

This disc was an award-winner when it first appeared in 1993, and rightly so. These are among Delius’s finest and most consistent works, and Hickox directs them with an authority and atmosphere that recalls Beecham or Barbirolli. Bryn Terfel, as soloist in Sea Drift, contributes one of the finest and most deeply-felt performances of his now extensive discography, and this is one of the most restrainedly expressive interpretations this outpouring of wild pathos has received on disc. Throughout the three works the choirs are ideally responsive to the beauty of the poetry, coming into their own in the late Songs of Farewell. If Songs of Sunset doesn’t quite efface the memory of Charles Groves’s 1968 account with Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk, this is still a splendid account of a subtle work that offers far more than mere fin-de-siècle languor. Altogether a notable release which it’s a pleasure to welcome back to currency.

-- Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine
Reviewing earlier release of this recording