The links, both musical and personal, between Grieg and Delius are many, which makes this a very apt and attractive coupling, bringing together all the works each composer wrote for this medium. This ...

It's just the right time of year for a festival celebrating the music of Frederick Delius. As the evenings get longer and a drowsy heat lingers in the gardens, the pastoral nostalgia of Delius seems ...

Cellist Raphael Wallfisch joins the Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra to perform the Delius Cello Concerto, and a selection of orchestral favourites by the composer. Classic FM has recorded a very special ...

No other composer polarises opinion like Delius. You either love or loathe his music. And it is rare to find someone who has grown to like it. Although this coming year – the 150th anniversary of his ...

The reputations of composers of uncertain standing tend to be policed by genteel fan clubs with a membership that ranges from the amiably eccentric to the outright bonkers. But there’s one thing that ...

19 May 1924 was the first day radio listeners heard a cello playing while nightingales sang, live from a Surrey garden. The cellist was Beatrice Harrison, who had recently performed the British debut ...

The Music: Delius’s concertos are like no other. The solo writing is not especially idiomatic and instinctively avoids the showiness of Walton or Elgar. But the music is simply glorious. The ...

The occasion was Delius' 150th birthday but more broadly it was a celebration of Englishness. Vaughan Williams' lark ascended once more, the Philharmonia's concert master Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay ...