North Country Sketches: “Winter Landscape”

Composer: DELIUS, Frederick
  • North Country Sketches: Impressions of Northern England, for Orchestra1 was composed between 1913-1914, and premiered on May 10, 1915, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.2
  • According to Thomas Beecham, this was one of Delius’s “occasional sallies into what for want of a better word in aesthetic terminology is known as ‘Impressionism.’” (from Frederick Delius by Thomas Beecham)3

Sources

  1. Robert Simon, Percy Grainger: The Pictorial Biography, 3rd ed. (Grafton, Ohio: Ludwig Music Publishing Company, 2003), 59.
  2. Quoted in “DCW 36: Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches,” DCW: Catalogue of Frederick Delius’s Works, accessed September 3, 2019, https://delius.music.ox.ac.uk/catalogue/document.html?doc=delius_northcountrysketches.xml.
  3. Quoted in “DCW 36: Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches,” DCW: Catalogue of Frederick Delius’s Works.

Cut IDs

15927 19731