BBC SO and Chorus/Davis
(Chandos)
Early 20th-century British music seems to be one of the growth areas in the CD market, but Delius's works remain unfashionable. Next year will be the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth and this is surely the first in a raft of new recordings of his music likely to appear in the coming months. Perhaps, though, this isn't the ideal pairing of works to gain new fans for Delius's musical world. Appalachia, a large-scale set of variations on a "slave song" with a finale that brings in both a chorus and a baritone soloist, was one of the works that established Delius's reputation when it was first performed in 1904. But it's a unwieldy work, unrolling at a sedate tempo in dense orchestral colours, and while Delius regarded A Song of the High Hills, his musical impression of the mountains of Norway from 1911, as one of his finest achievements, its beauties seem faded now, despite the best efforts of Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony.
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