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Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden | Dean Whiteside | New World Symphony (2017)

The music of Frederick Delius deserves more attention than it gets today, but this distinctly multinational composer is hard to shoehorn into any one of the national “schools” that dominated his prime years. His German-born parents had taken British citizenship by the time their son Fritz was born (he later Anglicized his name to Frederick), so by matter of birth Delius belongs among that class of late Romantic composers who revived British music, including Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Holst. As per his father’s wishes, Delius apprenticed at various wool outlets around Europe, but he did not take to the family business; instead he embarked on a plan to grow oranges on a plantation near Jacksonville, Florida, where African-American musical traditions made a lasting impact on the aspiring composer. Delius finally won his father’s blessing to study music in Leipzig, Germany, where he befriended the budding Norwegian star Edvard Grieg, leading to pivotal performances of Delius’ early music in Norway. Delius settled next in Paris, where he associated with Fauré and Ravel, and then after marrying a German artist he moved to the French village where he spent most of his remaining decades. Delius completed his fourth opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet, in 1901, but it did not reach the stage until 1907. While preparing for the premiere in Berlin, Delius realized that he needed to allow more time for a change of scenery, so he added the orchestral interlude known as The Walk to the Paradise Garden. In this opera based on a novella by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller, the “Paradise Garden” is actually a country inn and a young couple is walking there to get away from their feuding families. -Copyright © 2017 Aaron Grad Originally performed May 6, 2017. #Delius #symphonyorchestra #eden #livemusic Subscribe for weekly instructional videos, performances and incredible orchestral content:    / @newworldsymphony   Visit https://media.nws.edu to sign up for our FREE live streaming platform NWS Inside. Follow New World Symphony: Instagram: @nwsymphony TikTok: New-World-Symphony Facebook: NewWorldSymphony X: @nwsymphony Website: https://nws.edu Powered by Knight Foundation