Philharmonia/Davis – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonIt tells a brutal truth about Frederick Delius's lack of box-office clout – and perhaps even about his music, too – that this concert, marking the exact 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, consisted of only two of Delius's own works, bracketed by a pair of the most bankable pieces ever written by Vaughan Williams and Elgar, respectively. So, no rare birthday opportunity to hear a large work such as Paris, Sea Drift or the Mass of Life to mark the big Delius ...

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