Composer: Frederick Delius
Performer: Jacqueline du Pré
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Release: 2022
Size: 1.95 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Songs of Farewell
01. No. 1, How Sweet the Silent Backward Tracings!
02. No. 2, I Stand as on Some Mighty Eagle’s Beak
03. No. 3, Passage to You!
04. No. 4, Joy, Shipmates, Joy!
05. No. 5, Now Finale to the Shore
06. A Song Before Sunrise
Cello Concerto
07. (a) Lento
08. (b) Con moto tranquillo
09. (c) Lento
10. (d) Con moto tranquillo
11. (e) Allegramente
The first orchestral recording of Jacqueline du Pré (from 1965) was also the premiere on record of Frederick Delius’ ethereal cello concerto. A memorable performance still regarded as the summit of the discography. It is coupled with the tone poem A Song Before Sunrise (a true orchestral splendor), and Songs of Farewell, a cycle of compositions for double chorus after Walt Whitman’s famous Leaves of Grass.