Leon Williams – Delius: Appalachia – Sea Drift (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 60:11 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD – Naxos
This Delius album, released in 2012 to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, was appropriately recorded in Florida where the composer lived and had managed an orange plantation in the 1880s. Stefan Sanderling conducts The Florida Orchestra and The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay on these two works, including Appalachia, a set of variations based on a slave song. The symphonic poem Sea Drift , considered one of Delius’s greatest works, is a song of love and death in which baritone soloist Leon Williams is both a participant in the drama and offers a commentary upon it.
“Four Stars … this fine orchestra has a superb violinist leader … plus serious class in every department, the brass in particular. The choral singing, too, is exemplary in its firm-toned accuracy … the firepower and up-front honesty of (Leon Williams’s) singing do real justice to a great solo part. ” – BBC Music Magazine
Tracklist:
1. Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song (arr. T. Beecham for orchestra) 35:19
2. Sea Drift (arr. T. Beecham for orchestra) 24:52
Personnel:
Leon Williams, baritone
The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay
The Florida Orchestra
Stefan Sanderling, conductor
Digitally remastered
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