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557242bk Delius EC Sono 26/2/04 8:39 PM Page 12 DDD Tintner Memorial Edition Vol.10 8.557242 DELIUS Violin Concerto and other orchestral music Philippe Djokic, Violin Symphony Nova Scotia • Georg Tintner 557242bk Delius EC Sono 26/2/04 8:39 PM Page 2 TINTNER MEMORIAL EDITION • VOLUME 10 TINTNER MEMORIAL EDITION • 12 VOLUMES Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Vol.1 MOZART Symphonies Nos. 31 ‘Paris’, 35 ‘Haffner’ & 40 8.557233 Violin Concerto • Irmelin Prelude • La Calinda • The Walk to the Paradise Garden Vol. 2 SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos. 8 ‘Unfinished’ & 9 ‘The Great’ 8.557234 Intermezzo from ‘Fennimore and Gerda’ • On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring With spoken introduction by Georg Tintner Summer Night on the River • Sleigh Ride Performances recorded 5-6th December 1991 Vol. 3 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 / SCHUMANN Symphony No.2 8.557235 Though Delius was born (as Fritz Theodore Albert, on amanuensis Eric Fenby in 1931. With spoken introductions by Georg Tintner 29th January 1862) in Bradford, England, of German In 1897 Delius completed his third opera, Koanga, Vol. 4 HAYDN Symphonies Nos.103 ‘Drumroll’ & 104 ‘London’ 8.557236 parents, he was the true cosmopolitan. He lived most of about Creole society in Louisiana and thus the first With spoken introduction by Georg Tintner his life in France, Scandinavia and America, and his African-American opera. The dance La Calinda, which music shows traces of them all. After a rather stern appeared in an earlier version in the Florida Suite, is Vol. 5 BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 & Serenade No. 2 8.557237 upbringing Delius was compelled to join the family one of Delius’ best-known and loveliest pieces. With spoken introduction by Georg Tintner wool-brokering business, his desire to be a musician Between 1899 and 1901 he wrote the opera A Village Vol. 6 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’ / SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7 8.557238 ignored. By the time he was 22 it was clear he was Romeo and Juliet, in the format of Debussy’s Pelléas et totally unsuited to it, so his father Julius sent him to Mélisande, written contemporaneously. Beecham said Vol. 7 MOZART Idomeneo Overture, Symphonies Nos. 34 & 41 ‘Jupiter’ 8.557239 Florida to farm oranges. As an orchardist Delius was a in 1953 that “it is the most consistently musical stage With spoken introductions by Georg Tintner complete failure, but the experiment yielded one real piece of its kind written in the last sixty years.” It Vol. 8 STRAUSS Don Juan / MAHLER Symphony No. 1 8.557240 benefit: Delius was deeply influenced by the negro comprises many tableaux linked by interludes, of which songs and spirituals of the South, clearly evident in his The Walk to the Paradise Garden is one. The opera, Vol. 9 MAHLER Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) / SCHOENBERG Transfigured Night / first published work, Florida Suite. aside from the present excerpt, is very rarely performed. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel 8.557241 Under the influence of Edvard Grieg, whom Delius In 1901 Delius’ father died, leaving him only the Vol. 10 DELIUS Irmelin Prelude, La Calinda, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, had met in Norway, Julius finally agreed to finance lease on the orange plantation. Short of money, Delius Intermezzo from ‘Fennimore and Gerda’, Violin Concerto, Sleigh Ride, Delius’ music studies in Leipzig, where he began returned to Grez-sur-Loing and the house of the artist On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Summer Night on the River 8.557242 composing. Delius’ early work Sleigh Ride was to have Jelka Rosen, whom he had met in 1896, and married her been premièred at one of Grieg’s parties, but was not, in 1903. He lived there for the rest of his life. Vol. 11 MOZART Ballet Music ‘Les Petits Riens’, 3 German Dances ‘Sleighride’, owing to a surfeit of schnapps. In Maestro Tintner’s The opera Fennimore and Gerda, based on Danish 5 Contradances, ‘Das Donnerwetter’, 3 Marches, 4 Minuets, 5 Dances 8.557243 opinion, “If one doesn’t know this piece is by Delius writer Jens Peter Jakobsen’s book Niels Lhyne, was Vol. 12 GRAINGER Rustic Dance, Eastern Intermezzo from ‘Youthful Suite’, Colonial Song; one would never guess, except for the last few bars. But written in 1908-1910. In recent times it has suffered the it’s very pleasant, and perhaps it is interesting to see same neglect as his earlier operas; only the Intermezzo, Gay but Wistful & The Gum-suckers’ March from ‘In A Nutshell’ Suite / how a great man started not so great.” made up of two of the opera’s interludes, is regularly BENJAMIN North American Square Dance / COULTHARD Excursion Ballet Suite / Delius moved to Paris, leading a wild life. There he performed. Delius’ best-known works, Summer Night LILBURN Diversions for Strings / DREYFUS Serenade for Small Orchestra 8.557244 wrote his first major composition, the opera Irmelin, on the River and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Vols. 1-7: Live performances by Symphony Nova Scotia. which did not receive its first performance until 1953, Spring, were written in 1911 and 1912 respectively, and Vols. 8-9: Live performances by National Youth Orchestra of Canada. nineteen years after his death. The Irmelin Prelude, all show Delius the miniaturist at his greatest. As Vols. 10-12: Studio recordngs by Symphony Nova Scotia. that is now played from the work, is in fact a concert portrayals of nature – the hoverflies flitting over the All conducted by Georg Tintner. piece based on the opera taken down by Delius’ water at the end of Summer Night, the distant cuckoo 8.557242 2 11 8.557242 557242bk Delius EC Sono 26/2/04 8:39 PM Page 4 years, with guest appearances with the London Mozart Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra until moving to le soliste. Pire – du point de vue du virtuose – il l’aide d’Eric Fenby, même si ses dernières œuvres sont Players, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Canada at the end of 1987 as Music Director of s’achève pianissimo. Pourtant, il ne laisse moins marquantes. Après avoir beaucoup souffert, Northern Sinfonia and the London Symphony Symphony Nova Scotia. He appeared with all pratiquement aucun répit au soliste. Selon Maestro Delius mourut le 10 juin 1934. Orchestra for the BBC. Australian, New Zealand orchestras and opera Tintner, « [Contrairement à un concerto ‘normal’] il Bien que Delius soit aujourd’hui considéré comme He returned to Australia in 1970 as Music Director companies, and later with all major Canadian orchestras n’oppose pas le soliste à l’orchestre mais ressemble un compositeur anglais, de son vivant sa musique était of the West Australian Opera Company. In 1971 he was including the Montreal and Toronto Symphony plutôt à une merveilleuse improvisation, quelque chose bien plus estimée en Allemagne, ainsi que par des invited as Music Director of the National Youth Orchestras. In the United States he toured with the de spontané. Bien sûr, il est entièrement réfléchi, mais compositeurs comme Kodály et, fait assez surprenant, Orchestra of Canada, a visit so successful that it was Canadian Brass and appeared with the Michigan Opera cela ne doit pas transparaître. » par Bartók, dont les œuvres sont pourtant si différentes. repeated seven times. Tintner had a special rapport with Theatre. A cette époque, les effets des excès parisiens Les pages de Delius se sont démodées, car notre young musicians, conducting many concerts with the He made many commercial recordings, including commençaient à se faire sentir : en 1912, ce furent les époque favorise une musique plus racoleuse et national youth orchestras of several countries. A 1974 some for the CBC which are being reissued in the premiers symptômes de la syphilis ; en 1921 Delius stridente. Cependant, pour ceux qui savent apprécier la series of lectures have been broadcast many times in present Memorial Edition. His Naxos series of all avait les deux mains paralysées et en 1925 il était tendresse et la subtilité, Delius demeure un maître. English-speaking countries, and he was renowned for eleven Bruckner symphonies brought him worldwide devenu aveugle. Mais il continua à composer, avec his concert introductions, some of which may be heard acclaim in his final two years. in this edition. Georg Tintner has been honoured in four countries. Tintner’s repertoire included 56 operas, about two- He was awarded several honorary doctorates, and Georg Tintner thirds of which he conducted from memory. In 1974 he honours including the Officer’s Cross of the Austrian Georg Tintner naquit à Vienne en 1917. Il commença à et en tant que tel, il circulait à vélo, le moyen de became Senior Resident Conductor of the Australian Order Of Merit. He was a Member of the Order of étudier le piano à six ans, se mettant vite à composer. transport qui pour lui symbolisait « le summum de tout Opera for two years. While there he conducted now- Canada De neuf à treize ans, il fit partie du Chœur de garçons de ce qui est inoffensif. » legendary performances of Fidelio, expressive of his He died in Halifax in October 1999. Vienne, qu’il dirigea également lors d’exécutions de ses En 1954, il se rendit en Australie comme chef lifelong commitment to compassionate humanism. propres compositions. A treize ans, il entra à d’orchestre en résidence de l’Opéra national, puis de From 1976 Tintner was Music Director of the Tanya Tintner l’Académie d’état de Vienne comme jeune compositeur l’Opéra élisabéthain. Au cours des années suivantes, il prodige, étudiant la composition avec Josef Marx et effectua de vastes tournées en Australie et fut un dirigeant avec Felix Weingartner. A dix-huit ans, il était pionnier de l’opéra télévisé auprès de l’Australian Symphony Nova Scotia devenu le chef d’un chœur de formation du Chœur de Broadcasting Commission.