A new television film is being made about Bradford composer Frederick Delius to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. Due to be shown on BBC Four later this year, it is the first full-length ...

The life and music of Frederick Delius whose uncompromising artistic vision was matched only by the tragedy of his final years of illness. Donald Macleod begins by exploring Delius's early ...

When white-haired, British-born Frederick Delius died in 1934 after twelve years of paralysis and nine of total blindness, he was still one of the least appreciated of eminent modern composers. Though ...

Frederick Delius is one of the few classical composers with a significant Florida connection. As a young man in 1884, he came from England to work at an orange plantation south of Jacksonville, and ...

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 ...

We’re winging it this week, with ornithological excerpts by Respighi, Delius, and Messiaen. None of the works, however, are swan songs. Italian composer Ottorino Respighi was no stranger to ...

Composer Frederick Delius arrived at Solano Grove, on the banks of the St. John’s River, in March 1884. His father had hopes that the young man would show more initiative in managing an orange ...

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 ...

Bradford-born composer Frederick Delius will feature along with the Queen, Charles Dickens and code-breaker Alan Turing in a series of special-issue Royal Mail stamps this year. Delius, born on ...