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the essential Delius

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 220-210-21 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:2513:57:25 (1862 –1934)

COMPACT DISC ONE * 37:43 1 I Daybreak – Dance 11:16 2 II By the River 6:41 3 III Sunset – Near the Plantation 10:36 4 IV At Night 8:56

© Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library North Country Sketches* 28:54 5 I Autumn 8:22 6 II Winter Landscape 4:00 7 III Dance 7:23 8 IV The March of Spring 8:52

9 Air and Dance† 5:07 TT 72:07

Ulster * Philharmonic Orchestra† Vernon Handley Frederick Delius

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 22-3-3 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:1713:57:17 COMPACT DISC TWO Two Pieces for Small Orchestra 13:58 9 Late Swallows 9:28 1 1 On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 6:41 for string orchestra 2 2 Summer Night on the River 7:17 Arranged by

3 A Song before Sunrise 5:48 10 Intermezzo from ‘’ 5:29 for small orchestra Edited and arranged by Sir

Two Aquarelles 4:36 Bournemouth Sinfonietta for string orchestra Arranged by Eric Fenby 4 1 Lento, ma non troppo 2:11 11 The Walk to the Paradise Garden 10:05 5 2 Gaily, but not quick 2:22 Lento

From ‘Hassan’ 4:27 12 15:35 Arranged by Sir Thomas Beecham Andante – Animato TT 75:44 6 Intermezzo 2:08 7 Serenade 2:17 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Brendan 0’ Brien leader 8 Prelude to ‘’ 5:21 Lento

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 44-5-5 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:1913:57:19 a private rehearsal/performance conducted ‘Near the Plantation’, the preceding ‘Sunset’ Delius: Orchestral Works by Hans Sitt in a Leipzig restaurant, with an music is very beautiful, as is the fi nal audience consisting of Grieg, Sinding and the ‘At Night’, Delius’s fi rst nocturne. . This was the fi rst time that Delius Though a later work, North Country The childhood loves of Frederick Delius were the instinctive way in which they treated heard an orchestral work of his own, and the Sketches has its origin in a considerably the music of Chopin and Childe Harold’s a melody, and, hearing their singing in following year he revised two movements, earlier time than the Florida Suite. It refers Pilgrimage by Byron – early hints that such romantic surroundings, it was then although of these revised versions only one, to the Yorkshire Moors around Delius’s he would seek to escape from his native that I fi rst felt the urge to express myself ‘Sunset’, survives. Delius was never able to birthplace, where Delius and his sister often Bradford. His sister, Clare, was later to write in music. hear the effect of these changes, however, took long walks. During these he showed that he ‘spent whole days in the library It was therefore apt that the sights and as the Florida Suite was not performed again himself particularly sensitive to birdsong, poring over maps and books of travel’, and sounds of Florida should provide the subject until 1937, three years after his death. This something that is echoed by much woodwind Florida Suite and North Country Sketches matter for the fi rst purely orchestral work was by the London Philharmonic Orchestra writing in the ‘March of Spring’ movement. commemorate two of his early refuges. It was that Delius was to write, Florida Suite. As under Sir Thomas Beecham at the Queen’s It should be remembered that Delius once more positive than that, however. Just as he such it is impressive, but it gives indications Hall, London, on the occasion of the Royal contemplated an based on Wuthering went to Norway ostensibly to obtain orders besides of some of his later preoccupations. Philharmonic Society’s Coronation Concert. Heights, and the wild scenery of the Brontë for his father’s wool manufacturing fi rm but in Thus the opening theme of the fi rst and last There are really six movements but, as four country, as it was in his time, greatly reality to drink in the mountain scenery and movements would reappear in his opera of these are linked in two pairs, the work’s impressed him. In fact, a love of the rural the melancholy of pre-industrial folksong, The Magic Fountain of 1893, as would the layout is as follows: I ‘Daybreak – Dance’, II Yorkshire landscape remained with him all his so he settled at Solano Grove, Florida, not dance and climax of the third movement. ‘By the River’, III ‘Sunset – Near the Plantation’, life, and North Country Sketches is its fi nest to grow oranges but because it was exotic, Similarly, the second section of the fi rst IV ‘At Night’. A complete day is thus portrayed expression. This work – in the same way as and remote from Bradford. Delius can be movement, another dance, was again to be and the music’s pictorialism owes something A Song of the High Hills (1911), Eventyr (1917) seen against several backgrounds – British, employed in Act II of a further opera, to Grieg, although Delius’s own Florida and several other pieces – is of distinctively French, Scandinavian – yet the American one (1895–97). Under the title La Calinda, impressions predominate, some of them being northern inspiration; it is also Delius’s sole tends to be forgotten. Solano was his fi rst this dance has long been familiar as an quite specifi c. For example, the fi nale’s theme purely orchestral score, apart from Brigg Fair really productive stopping-place, where, with independent orchestral piece. A theme from for horn quartet suggests the distant singing (1907), to evoke specifi cally English scenes. a local teacher, he began to work seriously at the third movement’s dance section also was of a spiritual. The opening, ‘Daybreak’, is The fi rst two movements were composed his art, and where he fi rst could sense what to return in the ‘Late Swallows’ movement of notably prophetic, outlining a characteristic in 1913, the last two in 1914, and the whole he had in him to do. Crucial to this was the his String Quartet (1916). Delian mood even if the way in which it is was fi rst performed at the Queen’s Hall singing of Negroes on his plantation. Much Bearing the subtitle ‘Tropical Scenes for conveyed is not yet entirely Delius’s. ‘By the by Beecham and the London Symphony later he said, Orchestra’, the manuscript of the Florida Suite River’ includes what is as close to a romantic Orchestra in 1915. It was published in They showed a truly wonderful sense of is dated 1887, the year of Delius’s twenty- ‘big tune’ as this composer ever got, and 1923. Each movement is a portrayal of a musicianship and harmonic resource in fourth birthday. It was fi rst played in 1888 at although there are stylistic inconsistencies in mood and a season, embodying a nature

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 66-7-7 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:2013:57:20 mysticism that is only hinted at in the Florida Blind. It is a confection based on the simplest the same two-note motif ten times in fi ve music, two of which appear on this CD. Suite. An important aspect of this music’s of materials. Starting with a meandering bars). In ‘Summer Night on the River’ it is the The Two Aquarelles for string orchestra originality is the orchestral writing, which is theme given to the solo violin, in a moderate woodwind that dominate the tonal balance were arranged in 1938 from the two especially characteristic throughout, typifying tempo, the Air builds up to a climax which and dynamic shading, and the demands made unaccompanied wordless partsongs To Be Delius’s poetic and highly effective methods. immediately gives way to the Dance. Towards upon the sensitivity and skill of the players Sung of a Summer Night on the Water, dating The fi rst movement, ‘Autumn’, is subtitled the end a solo cello recalls the opening, and make this one of Delius’s most diffi cult scores from 1917. The fi rst of these, marked Lento, ‘The Wind Soughs in the Trees’, and so it a brief fl ourish from fi rst violins brings the to realise in performance. Certainly it is a ma non troppo, presents a slow melody which does in long chromatic lines on the muted work to an end. remarkable work of musical scene painting. uses typical Delian harmonies, dying away at strings over drone-like basses. As a result One can almost perceive the insects darting the end. The second, Gaily, but not quick, is © Robert Anthony Briggs the music seems both mobile and static at over the water and a mist hovering just above brisker and more extrovert but it, too, comes the same time, and a comparable effect of the overhanging trees on a late summer’s to a peaceful, quiet conclusion. non-monotonous repetition is produced The Two Pieces for Small Orchestra evening; and the solo cello passage at fi gure Hassan, Delius’s last work for the stage by the cool harp and woodwind motive in (‘Summer Night on the River’ of 1911 and 3 easily evokes the slow, languorous river (1920 –1923), is in many ways his most the next movement, ‘Winter Landscape’. ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’ moving along. The score’s opening, marked fascinating and evocative in this genre. This is followed by ‘Dance’, which is not of 1912) were fi rst heard in Leipzig in ‘very quietly’, is amended at fi gure 7 to read, The author of the play, James Elroy Flecker, programmatic although, as October 1913. These exquisite miniatures ‘the melody becoming softer and softer as if had died in January 1915 aged thirty-one, suggested, with its tentative opening and are scored for two fl utes (only one in the dying away in the distance’. and his widow had originally wanted Ravel sudden end it possibly represents fi reside ‘First Cuckoo’), an oboe, pairs of clarinets, Comparable in style and scoring is A Song to write the incidental music. At the time, musing during winter, a dream within a bassoons and horns plus strings. The theme before Sunrise which dates from 1918. The the producer Basil Dean had just been dream. The fi nal ‘March of Spring’ is subtitled of the ‘First Cuckoo’ is taken from No. 14 woodwind again contribute much to the introduced to the music of Delius through ‘Woodlands, Meadows and Silent Moors’, of Grieg’s Nineteen Norwegian Folk-tunes, mood of the work, which opens with the a revival of his opera A Village Romeo and has considerable impact after such Op. 66, called ‘In Ola Valley, in Ola Lake’, marking ‘Freshly’. The rhythmic bite here is and Juliet (1899 –1901). When, in 1920, vivid portrayals of the melancholy bustle but Delius’s use of orchestral colour and all-important. The piece is in ternary form, Delius was eventually approached to write of autumn and the settled gloom of winter. scoring completely belie the music’s origins the opening theme returning at fi gure 7. the incidental music, the play was still There is indeed a memorable suggestion of at the piano. The forward impulse of the In his poignant book Delius As I Knew Him, unpublished. However, after the composer nature’s gradual awakening, of the earth’s piece (Delius’s marking is ‘with easy fl owing Eric Fenby (1906 –1997) recalls his painfully had submitted his score, the existing yearly renewal. movement’) is maintained in the luminous slow and exhausting sessions working with economic situation delayed the production chordal fl ow of the divided strings (in nine the blind and physically enfeebled composer of the work still further, until June 1923. The © Max Harrison parts) with the woodwind adding their own during the years 1928 – 34. It is a story play and Delius’s score were much praised distinct voice. Strangely, Delius only once without parallel in music. Following Delius’s when the fi rst London production opened in Air and Dance was written in 1915 and mentions the word ‘cuckoo’ in the score (four death in 1934, Fenby made a number of September 1923 and there were more than dedicated to the National Institute for the bars after fi gure 8, when the clarinet plays arrangements of his fellow Yorkshireman’s 250 performances at His Majesty’s Theatre.

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 88-9-9 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:2013:57:20 The Intermezzo is a short atmospheric piece had had to abandon their homes to the tragedy of Sali and Vreli who fall in love, river. In summer the white courtyard whose main theme is heard at the opening, the military authorities and fl ee from despite the rivalry between their feuding would blaze with myriad fl owers, and played by a solo cello. The scene in which France in the fi rst World War. ‘When we fathers which ruins both families. Penniless nature rim the Delius’s little world by the the Serenade originates is described in the were away from home, Fred missed the and homeless, the youngsters wander in great trees at the water’s edge. Indoors… score as ‘Moonlight. The Street of Felicity, swallows most’, Mrs Delius told, and I pursuit of happiness, only to realise that their paintings on the walls revealed colourful by the fountain of the two pigeons, in front well remember his ‘Tell me, lad, are the search is in vain. A mysterious character, the studies of the garden in a summer of the house’. Hassan, taking his from swallows late this year?’ ‘Dark Fiddler’ (arguably a symbol of death), mood from the brush of his talented beneath his cloak, serenades Yasmin. The Fennimore and Gerda, Delius’s last opera, is advises them to seek the Paradise Garden. wife, Jelka. But the garden itself was her ‘Serenade’ is scored for solo violin (replacing based on episodes from the novel Niels Lyhne Their journey is depicted in music masterpiece, and the musical imagery the original wordless solo part), strings by the Danish author Jens Peter Jacobsen. The suffused with the longing of the lovers, their it worked on her husband’s mind was and harp. Intermezzo recorded here was arranged by nostalgia for former happier times, and also dedicated fi ttingly to her. Delius’s compositions include nine Sir Thomas Beecham from the sections the hopelessness of their situation. Having Delius himself described what he had in mind works for the stage, of which eight were preceding Pictures (scenes) Nos 10 and 11. reached the Paradise Garden they decide whilst composing the rhapsody, completed. Among these are the The fi rst part, up to fi gure 4, is pastoral in that to die in the intensity of their love is Roses, lilies and a thousand Irmelin (1890 – 92) and Fennimore and Gerda character with passages for solo fl ute; the preferable to poverty and wretchedness. The sweet-scented fl owers. Bright butterfl ies (1908 –10). Irmelin was not performed second part has solos for both fl ute and oboe. lovers climb into a barge; as they embrace it fl itting from petal to petal, and gold during the composer’s lifetime, but in the fl oats down-river and sinks. This passionate, brown bees murmuring in the warm, © Malcolm Walker last years of his life Delius composed a short sensual music surely epitomises Delius’s quivering summer air. Beneath the shade Prelude based on two themes from the belief that ‘music is an outburst of the soul’. of the old tree fl ows a quiet river with opera. This delicate pastoral-like miniature, Nature in all her manifestations, as well as The rhapsody In a Summer Garden water-lilies. In a boat, almost hidden, marked ‘Lento’, is exquisitely scored with solo the rhythmic vitality and variety of the dance, is undoubtedly one of Delius’s fi nest two people. A thrush is singing in the passages for clarinet, violin and fl ute. were two potent sources of inspiration for masterworks. Composed the same year as the distance. In 1962 Eric Fenby made an arrangement Delius. The Walk to the Paradise Garden Dance Rhapsody No. 1 (1908), it was fi rst The music is like a sequence of rapidly for string orchestra of the third movement, portrays an imaginary landscape, the journey performed under Thomas Beecham the same changing impressions that vividly evoke Late Swallows, of Delius’s only published of a pair of lovers from the high summer of year; Delius subsequently revised it and the Delius’s images; indeed, one can almost see string quartet (1916 –17). Fenby’s description their dreams to the autumnal reality of their première of the fi nal version was given in New the riot of colour and smell the Gloire de of the piece cannot be bettered: fate. It is one of Delius’s most popular short York in 1912 under Josef Stansky. The Delius’s Dijon roses that massed on the walls of the The third movement… is a beautiful works, and forms an orchestral interlude garden, at their home in Grez-sur-Loing near house. The tiny fragment heard on the oboe Autumnal soliloquy in sound conjured up between the penultimate scenes of the opera Fontainebleau, was renowned for its luxuriance within seconds of the opening is a pervasive from thoughts of the swallows darting A Village Romeo and Juliet, although the during summer as recalled by Eric Fenby: thread through the work, which has at its to and fro from the caves of the studios interlude was not added until 1907 prior to The high stone walls of the garden centre a magical interlude where the warm, at Grez, now that Delius and his wife the opera’s premiere. The opera describes sloped down beyond the orchard to the sensuous melody of the violas and languid

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 110-110-11 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:2113:57:21 woodwind ostinati suggest the lazy current St Petersburg. The Bournemouth Sinfonietta and opera house, its many award-winning Halls, and additional performances across of the river. When the climax is reached it is was disbanded in 2000. recordings, its trail-blazing international Northern Ireland. Orchestra in Residence for riven with ecstacy as well as sadness, with tours and pioneering education work, the Belfast Festival at Queen’s University, the knowledge that such beauty is fl eeting Principal Conductors of the Bournemouth the London Philharmonic Orchestra has it also accompanies opera and ballet and must fade. Above all, In a Summer Symphony Orchestra since its foundation long since earned a high reputation for productions at Belfast’s Grand Opera Garden is a lovesong, enshrining all that in 1893 by Sir Dan Godfrey have included versatility and artistic excellence. , House, while its outstanding education and Jelka meant to Delius as witnessed, too, in Rudolf Schwarz, , Principal Conductor since September 2000, outreach work has been recognised by an the lines of Christina Rossetti which prefaced Sir , Paavo Berglund, and , Principal Guest award from the Royal Philharmonic Society. the score: Andrew Litton and Yakov Kreizberg. Since Conductor since March 2003, extend the Kenneth Montgomery is the Orchestra’s new All are my blooms, and all sweet blooms her appointment in 2002, Marin Alsop line of distinguished musicians who have Principal Conductor, and numbers among his of love, has continued to raise the profi le of the held positions with the Orchestra since its distinguished predecessors Thierry Fischer, To thee I gave while spring and summer Orchestra, which performs orchestral music foundation in 1932 by Sir Thomas Beecham; , Vernon Handley, Dmitry sang. in concert venues across the south and west these have included Sir , Sir John Sitkovetsky and . The of Britain, has appeared at many festivals Pritchard, , Sir , has made more than sixty © Andrew Burn throughout the country, tours worldwide, and Franz Welser-Möst. recordings and is an exclusive broadcast and broadcasts nationally on BBC Radio 3 Resident symphony orchestra at the Royal partner of the BBC, with many relays on BBC In 1998/99 the Bournemouth Sinfonietta besides being committed to an active Festival Hall since 1992, presenting its main Radio 3, Radio Ulster and BBC TV. Tours of celebrated thirty years of providing music Education and Community programme. It series of concerts there between September Europe, Asia and the United States have of an international standard to the south performed the fi rst ever complete cycle of and May each year, the London Philharmonic added to the Orchestra’s reputation. and west of England. Performing in venues the symphonies of Vaughan Williams at the Orchestra has also been the resident ranging from concert halls to community Barbican Centre under Richard Hickox, and symphony orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Born in 1919, Norman Del Mar was centres, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta took part in a rare performance of Delius’s Opera for more than forty years; it performs educated at Marlborough and the Royal maintained a commitment to the people of A Mass of Life at St Paul’s Cathedral. The besides at venues around the UK, has made College of Music. From his early successes the region with a touring programme from latter work forms part of the Orchestra’s numerous tours across Europe, to America as Sir Thomas Beecham’s assistant, he Lands End to High Wycombe. The Sinfonietta extensive Delius discography for Chandos, for and Japan, and visited India, Hong Kong, became a notable conductor of Mozart, was Resident Orchestra at the Hall for which the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra China, Australia and South Africa. Janácˇek, Strauss and Schoenberg, amongst in Truro following a successful under Richard Hickox has also recorded others. He worked with a range of British concert series, and also gave concerts works by Britten and a comprehensive series Formed in 1966 and based in Belfast, including the Royal Philharmonic in Brazil. Under the baton of Principal devoted to the orchestral music of Sir Michael Northern Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Alexander Polianichko who was Tippett who, at the time of his death in 1998, is now one of the major orchestras in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as well appointed in 1997, the ensemble toured both was the Orchestra’s President Emeritus. and Ireland, with a main as with orchestras in Europe, Russia, the Normandy and Polianichko’s home town of With its performances in the concert hall concert season in the Ulster and Waterfront Middle and Far East, and South America. He

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CCHANHAN 241-37241-37 Booklet.inddBooklet.indd 112-132-13 226/6/076/6/07 13:57:2213:57:22 was also a keen opera-lover and was invited, He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal ongoing relationship with the Philharmonia recordings, including most recently cycles of as guest conductor, to perform at The Royal Philharmonic Society in 1990 and of Balliol Orchestra he has conducted Elgar, Walton orchestral works by Sir Lennox and Michael Opera, , Sadler’s Wells, the College, , in 1999. Vernon Handley and Britten festivals at the South Bank and a Berkeley and with the BBC Royal Stockholm Opera and Scottish Opera. is currently Conductor Emeritus of the Royal semi-staged performance of Gloriana at the National Orchestra of Wales, the symphonies He died in February 1994. Philharmonic Orchestra and Associate Aldeburgh Festival. by Vaughan Williams with the London Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Apart from his activities at the Sydney Opera Symphony Orchestra, and a series of operas For forty years Vernon Handley CBE has and in September 2003 he was appointed House, he has enjoyed recent engagements by Britten with the Sinfonia. pursued a career unique amongst those Conductor Laureate of the Ulster Orchestra. with , Covent Garden, English He has received a Grammy (for ) of front rank conductors in that he has National Opera, Vienna State Opera and and fi ve Gramophone Awards. Richard Hickox championed British repertoire, and probably One of Britain’s most gifted and versatile Washington Opera among others. He has guest was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Jubilee recorded, performed and broadcast more conductors, Richard Hickox CBE is Music conducted such world-renowned orchestras as Honours List in 2002, and has received British music than any other conductor. Twice Director of Opera Australia, and was Principal the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre many other awards, including two Royal outright winner of the Gramophone ‘Record Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonic Society Music Awards, the fi rst of the Year’, he tours Europe, Australia and of Wales from 2000 until 2006 when he and . ever Sir Charles Groves Award, the Evening Japan regularly and includes a British work in became Conductor Emeritus. He founded His phenomenal success in the recording Standard Opera Award, and the Association every concert. the City of London Sinfonia, of which studio has resulted in more than 280 of British Orchestras Award. Positions held include Associate Conductor he is Music Director, in 1971. He is also of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Associate Guest Conductor of the London Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Emeritus the Ulster Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia, and co-founder of of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra Collegium Musicum 90. and Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and He regularly conducts the major orchestras Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert in the UK and has appeared many times at Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Proms and at the Aldeburgh, Bath Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and and Cheltenham festivals among others. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. With the London Symphony Orchestra at the Whilst Professor of at the Barbican Centre he has conducted a number , he was created of semi-staged operas, including Billy Budd, Hon. R.C.M. & F.R.C.M. by Her Majesty the Queen Hänsel und Gretel and . With the Mother, and during this time he also regularly Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra he gave the conducted the National Youth Orchestra of fi rst ever complete cycle of Vaughan Williams’s Great Britain and the World Youth Orchestra. symphonies in London. In the course of an

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Executive producer Brian Pidgeon (CD2 tracks 1-10) Recording producer Brian Couzens Sound engineer Ralph Couzens (CD1 tracks 1-9, CD2 tracks 11&12), Brian Couzens (CD2 tracks 1-10) Assistant engineer Philip Couzens (CD1 tracks 1-8), Bill Todd (CD1 track 9), Richard Smoker and Peter Newble (CD2 tracks 11&12) Editor Tim Handley (CD1 tracks 1-8), Ralph Couzens (CD1 track 9) and Peter Newble (CD2 tracks 11&12) Remastering Jonathan Cooper Recording venue Ulster Hall, Belfast; 30 August 1985 (CD1 tracks 1-8), All Saints’ Church, Tooting, London; November 1983 (CD1 track 9), Christchurch Priory, Dorset; January 1977 (CD 2 tracks 1-10), Winter Gardens, Bournemouth; 9&10 September 1994 (CD2 tracks 11&12) Front cover Photograph of Poppy Field © James Warren/iStockphoto Design and typesetting Cassidy Rayne Creative p 1977, 1984, 1986 & 1995 Chandos Records Ltd This compilation p 2007 Chandos Records Ltd Elgar Digital remastering p 2007 Chandos Records Ltd Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 2 • The Sanguine Fan • Froissart © 2007 Chandos Records Ltd CHAN 241-21 Chandos Records Ltd, Colchester, Essex CO2 8HX, England Printed in the EU

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