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The four Delius works contained on this new Dutton Epoch release are seldom heard, yet each is of outstanding musical interest and contains passages of characteristic beauty. Life’s Dance teems with an almost Straussian richness of thematic material, and calls for a degree of orchestral virtuosity that is rarely found in Delius. The more extended Poem of Life and Love (receiving its premiere recording) had to be slightly reconstructed and was first published only in 1999; it is the last in the composer’s great series of works for orchestra alone.
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