Frederick Delius

Air and Dance

For String Orchestra

DCW 37
RT VI/22
DCE 27b

Composer: Frederick Delius
Dedicatee: National Institute for the Blind

This brief work was written and performed once, privately, under Beecham in 1915. It was only taken up again in 1929, by which point Delius has expressed some misgivings about the work. Jelka wrote to Heseltine in 1925 that 'Fred cannot make up his mind now to publish [...] as he does not quite like the end' (RT.1986, 150).

Composition: 1915.

Slowly flowing (not too fast)