Frederick Delius Song of Summer

Composer: Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (29 January 1862 10 June 1934) Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: John Barbirolli Year of recording: 1967 Painting: Delius in his Garden at GrezsurLoing. Oil on canvas by Jelka Rosen his wife, early 1900s. A Song of Summer, tone poem for orchestra, written in 19301931. After Delius was blinded and crippled by tertiary syphilis in the early 20s, his composing career seemed effectively to have ended. But the arrival of Eric Fenby, a