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No other composer polarises opinion like Delius. You either love or loathe his music. And it is rare to find someone who has grown to like it. Although this coming year – the 150th anniversary of his ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Delius’s birth, but don’t expect the music business to take any note: the ...

Reviewing a festival of Frederick Delius’s music in 1929, the Times declared that his ‘strength and weakness … is his solitariness. He belongs to no school, follows no tradition, and is like no other ...

Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling It is 37 years since A Mass of Life was ...

Delius wrote this beautiful tone poem in 1912. Its first performance, just under a year later, took place in Leipzig. This is the sister piece to Summer Night on the River. Together, they make up Two ...

Some English composers have to be rooted in their native soil. You couldn’t imagine Benjamin Britten or Vaughan Williams living anywhere but England. Frederick Delius was the opposite; he couldn’t ...

It's just the right time of year for a festival celebrating the music of Frederick Delius. As the evenings get longer and a drowsy heat lingers in the gardens, the pastoral nostalgia of Delius seems ...