Such fond memories, my daughter called it fairy music, and danced around the lounge aged 4 to this. Delius was a great romantic and a great composer you can see the colours of his imagination throughout this piece
Heard this on classic fm yesterday without catching the name of it but caught Delius. 24hrs later the opening tune has been playing in my mind, a proper earworm! So I searched and now I know ❤
I heard it first as a schoolboy during the war with German bombs exploding all around us, but we all kept listening, as a way out of the terror we were experiencing then.
Hello, You might enjoy this video of Sir Malcolm Sargent conducing La Calinda. It appears as though it was performed at a concert during WWII. You'll see what I mean at the end of the video. czcams.com/video/2-lB6gjloF4/video.html Enjoy!
She walked down the aisle to this music to where I was waiting. I had introduced her to Delius--and every time I hear him in general and this piece in particular, my mind lingers on her.
When I was at junior school in the 1960's, this lovely piece used to often be played on a gramophone whilst we were parading into assembly. I have loved Delius's music ever since.
We used to have Mozart's clarinet concerto to walk into assembly. The head always asked if anyone knew the piece. I always did but was to afraid to say. No one else ever knew ....
Someone has just requested this on Classic FM and she says it reminds her of when she first heard it at the age of 11. It also reminds me of my childhood around that age. Wonderful stuff.
I absolutely love this piece but I heard an amusing true story about it. A railway station were having trouble with vandalism so there solution was to play this music loudly because they found it kept the yobs away.
Delius is one of my favourite composers - love the harmonies and orchestration and this is the first piece I ever played by him in my school orchestra. Love it! Thanks.
He was a great composer up there with the rest like strouse(he sounded just like him) and among tchaiakovsky music masters and he was one of them! Thanks modernly heard the best on youtube Thanks people of youtube-Google for this modern listening of these original sounds!!
Perfection. You can also find a lovely reduced version (for flute and strings) arranged and conducted by Eric Fenby with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta which works so well it could force me to watch any TV show it was the theme to.
I meant my last comment as a tongue in cheek reply to Madacus but it didn't hook to that posting. This is the very first orchestral piece I remember hearing as a child, and it sparked my lifelong interest interest in music. Unknown? - no way! I still love it after 60 years. I agree that Beecham was the greatest interpreter of Delius. I have a lot of his recordings on vinyl.
I think I first heard this around age 7 and I almost exploded like a fire work and flew out the window. That's how it made me feel. With each note I felt so bouncy and full of energy especially towards the end part and the complex string section building 2:26 sounds like some odd notes. I feel embarassed at how I felt bit it's okay. Since aging I don't feel that same weirdness but what a gem. Maybe I should get it back. Hehehe.
The tempo on this performance of "La Calinda" is perfect. Some conductors take it wayyyyy too fast.... The melodies and harmonies need to be savored....
aren’t you the guy who just told me I know nothing about music below a different vid of this because I said that the tempo is better if not too fast lmao
La Calinda is just a sample of the mouth watering music this opera contains. Beecham was spot on when he said Koanga and A Village Romeo were masterpieces.. Why is he generally overlooked as a composer, didn't he fit into any category? Ian Perth, WA
Was talking with a friend who's been playing/listening to classical music for years and only just got to know this recently! We both agree that it's wonderful! Delius is depicting Florida but I think the Yorkshire coastline might be an influence too!
Fascinated by his life in the US and the strong possibility of a bloodline in Jacksonville. I know 20 years ago efforts were made to contact his aged grand daughter, but to no avail. I've found some more info online, if anyone is interested.
I know this piece quite well. I have the Groves commercial recording of the complete opera, and another LP set of a "live" performance of the complete opera. This is from the wedding scene (between two slaves in the old South) of the opera. The tempo here is extremely slow. But hearing it, I feel I might like to hear it even a tad slower! It a great accomplishment for a conductor to take a slow tempo and really make it work. Anyone know who that is? I'd be inclined to guess Barbirolli???
@Cee6th Ask someone if they've heard of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, they will probably know what you're talking about. Ask them about Delius or La Calinda and you'll probably get a blank stare with some shaking of the head.
Such fond memories, my daughter called it fairy music, and danced around the lounge aged 4 to this. Delius was a great romantic and a great composer you can see the colours of his imagination throughout this piece
Heard this on classic fm yesterday without catching the name of it but caught Delius.
24hrs later the opening tune has been playing in my mind, a proper earworm!
So I searched and now I know ❤
I heard it first as a schoolboy during the war with German bombs exploding all around us, but we all kept listening, as a way out of the terror we were experiencing then.
Graham Vahey I couldn't imagine a more striking picture. How wonderful to have music of such lilting beauty lift you away from the terror.
@@giovanna722 reminds me of that video of a cellist at Kosovo i think it was.. xx
Hello,
You might enjoy this video of Sir Malcolm Sargent conducing La Calinda. It appears as though it was performed at a concert during WWII. You'll see what I mean at the end of the video.
czcams.com/video/2-lB6gjloF4/video.html Enjoy!
Also part of his lovely Florida Suite _ should be played much more frequently. Great Sir Thomas Beecham recording !
This piece will be played at my funeral to celebrate my love of english music and the english countryside
It's from his Florida Suite ...
Also it’s afro american inspired
me too, & to celebrate Delius himself.
She walked down the aisle to this music to where I was waiting. I had introduced her to Delius--and every time I hear him in general and this piece in particular, my mind lingers on her.
Absolutely gorgeous!
My beloved dad used to play this piece on the piano when I was a child. I've now got it as my ringtone on my phone!
When I was at junior school in the 1960's, this lovely piece used to often be played on a gramophone whilst we were parading into assembly. I have loved Delius's music ever since.
We used to have Mozart's clarinet concerto to walk into assembly. The head always asked if anyone knew the piece. I always did but was to afraid to say. No one else ever knew ....
Someone has just requested this on Classic FM and she says it reminds her of when she first heard it at the age of 11. It also reminds me of my childhood around that age.
Wonderful stuff.
This music is really beautiful 🎶🎶🎶🥰💕❤️🌷
I absolutely love this piece but I heard an amusing true story about it. A railway station were having trouble with vandalism so there solution was to play this music loudly because they found it kept the yobs away.
Delius is one of my favourite composers - love the harmonies and orchestration and this is the first piece I ever played by him in my school orchestra. Love it! Thanks.
I used to look forward to hearing this on “Your Hundred Best Tunes” on my old valve radio as a music student schoolboy!
Delius is such a sensualist that his melodies often recall good old music-hall songs. I´d been listening to him for years before noticing.
The Calinda is a vodou dance. Around 1:10 where there is a mysterious, almost Mussorgsky-like part, I can hear the magick begin.
He was a great composer up there with the rest like strouse(he sounded just like him) and among tchaiakovsky music masters and he was one of them! Thanks modernly heard the best on youtube Thanks people of youtube-Google for this modern listening of these original sounds!!
I grew up playing this in our local Youth Orchestra. We all loved it
I have heard this piece several times never knowing who wrote it. Lovely.
Perfection. You can also find a lovely reduced version (for flute and strings) arranged and conducted by Eric Fenby with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta which works so well it could force me to watch any TV show it was the theme to.
one of my favorite pieces ever
I meant my last comment as a tongue in cheek reply to Madacus but it didn't hook to that posting. This is the very first orchestral piece I remember hearing as a child, and it sparked my lifelong interest interest in music. Unknown? - no way! I still love it after 60 years. I agree that Beecham was the greatest interpreter of Delius. I have a lot of his recordings on vinyl.
When I was a kid my brilliant dad used to play this, and the sun always came out, it was like magic. Now he's gone and the sun doesn't come out.
Sublime.
Beautiful 😊
VERY BEAUTIFUL!
This composition is brilliance. I am interested to hear the rest from the composer himself!
I think I first heard this around age 7 and I almost exploded like a fire work and flew out the window. That's how it made me feel. With each note I felt so bouncy and full of energy especially towards the end part and the complex string section building 2:26 sounds like some odd notes. I feel embarassed at how I felt bit it's okay. Since aging I don't feel that same weirdness but what a gem. Maybe I should get it back. Hehehe.
The tempo on this performance of "La Calinda" is perfect. Some conductors take it wayyyyy too fast.... The melodies and harmonies need to be savored....
aren’t you the guy who just told me I know nothing about music below a different vid of this because I said that the tempo is better if not too fast lmao
La Calinda is just a sample of the mouth watering music this opera contains. Beecham was spot on when he said Koanga and A Village Romeo were masterpieces.. Why is he generally overlooked as a composer, didn't he fit into any category? Ian Perth, WA
I just learnt this through a friend on MeWe social media app... And it is indeed awesome... Love it.... ♥️♥️♥️♥️🎼🎶🎵✨
Was talking with a friend who's been playing/listening to classical music for years and only just got to know this recently! We both agree that it's wonderful! Delius is depicting Florida but I think the Yorkshire coastline might be an influence too!
Love this! It is like a pop tune!
Such joyous music.
A favourite piece of mine for decades - thankyou! :)
Such a beautiful piece! Thanks for sharing!
Maravilla musical. Una preciosidad.
One of the most beautiful melodies ever written. just wish it was extrapolated further so that I could lose myself in it for longer!
Fantastic Music!!!
Delightful ❤
Unknown? It's one of the best-known pieces of British music.
Solo infinitas gracias a todo el amor de mis amados mensajeros aquí estoy dispuesta al servicio, en Loque pueda ser útil. Gracias
Fascinated by his life in the US and the strong possibility of a bloodline in Jacksonville. I know 20 years ago efforts were made to contact his aged grand daughter, but to no avail. I've found some more info online, if anyone is interested.
Will Mac could you please direct message me? this sounds very interesting!
This isn't an unknown piece by Delius - it's very well known...one of the few works of his that has such a status!
Beecham was the greatest champion of Delius' music. We are in his debt for that. However I do not feel that his interpretations were always the best.
I certainly agree. I don't think he serves Delius well.
1:39 Can you hear the little bird chirping away ?
Sir Thomas Beecham served this up in three and a half minutes, and observed much greater dynamic contrasts. - John Austin, Australia
It pays dividends to give it more time
This comment has struck me. I cannot but admire the stoicism :0
I know this piece quite well. I have the Groves commercial recording of the complete opera, and another LP set of a "live" performance of the complete opera. This is from the wedding scene (between two slaves in the old South) of the opera. The tempo here is extremely slow. But hearing it, I feel I might like to hear it even a tad slower! It a great accomplishment for a conductor to take a slow tempo and really make it work. Anyone know who that is? I'd be inclined to guess Barbirolli???
If fruit picking in Florida inspired this piece (somewhere between 1884 and 1904 ) I’m an African voodoo priest! The things Bradford boys get up to.
....found the Beecham recording 15 years ago, it is far more intense, enjoyable, climactic and enjoyable
@Cee6th Ask someone if they've heard of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, they will probably know what you're talking about. Ask them about Delius or La Calinda and you'll probably get a blank stare with some shaking of the head.
mmm iteresante
Now i now where the band Queen got there inspiration from for the Made In Heaven album. It's the bit from 3:25 onwards.
i want to play this so bad. I need the clarinet part! :D
Sorry but it is an oboe being played, not a clarinet. Such a simple and pure melody.
1.44....that's the secret
@Madacus 2 - Sir Thomas Beecham was a conductor not a composer?
does somebody know the chords the orchestra plays from 1:05 to 1:17 ???
please thx
@artymowycz More fool them then. They are missing out on something wonderful.
Hello
What did he write afterwards? :-)
An Englishman in Florida...!
I like it but I do not hear voodoo or creole influence. To me it sounds like a lighter version of the Star Wars sound track .
puzzle hunt anyone?
It's not a song: no one's singing.