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 ...

Delius's three concertos for stringed instruments were all composed when the composer was in his 50s. The Double Concerto for violin and cello came first in 1916; the Violin Concerto followed ...

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 ...

Some English composers have to be rooted in their native soil. You couldn’t imagine Benjamin Britten or Vaughan Williams living anywhere but England. Frederick Delius was the opposite; he couldn’t ...

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The English composer Frederick Delius did not care for every note by his Nordic contemporary Jean Sibelius, but he admired a lot of the music, and he liked the man himself. Of course, he had never ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The evening before this Prom, the BBC broadcast again its classic 1968 film Song of Summer about the last years ...

Any lineup which contains reedman Tobias Delius deserves attention. Born in England to an Argentinean father and a German mother, Delius was a longtime staple of the adventurous Amsterdam scene before ...

The sound world of Delius is immediately recognisable – warm, luminous orchestral colours, hazy, impressionistic tone pictures tinged with a romantic glow. Hard to hum a Delius tune (yet they’re there ...