- These pieces were arranged in 1932 from Delius’s two-song choral set, To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water (1917).
- The original choral work is textless, so an arrangement for strings is pretty idiomatic.1
- Eric Fenby, Delius’s amanuensis, created these string arrangements.2
Sources
- Lionel Carley, Robert Anderson, and Anthony Payne, “Delius, Frederick,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 3, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000049095.
- “Delius-Fenby: Two Aquarelles,” Boosey & Hawkes, accessed September 3, 2019, https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Frederick-Delius-Two-Aquarelles/4034.
Cut IDs
20119 43718 43968 43969