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Leah Broad: Delius’s Worldliness, 19 January 2023

The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos 
by Jeremy Dibble.
Boydell, 564 pp., £40, June 2021, 978 1 78327 577 9
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... of concert programmes, most of his major works have been recorded, often to favourable reviews.Jeremy Dibble is an admirer. Delius’s music was the soundtrack to his teenage years; he was drawn to its ‘lyricism and poetry’. His book focuses on Delius’s compositional processes. ‘We can only do true justice to Delius’s music by understanding ...

Not Cricket

Peter Phillips: On Charles Villiers Stanford, 6 February 2025

Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician 
by Jeremy Dibble.
Boydell, 701 pp., £70, April 2024, 978 1 78327 795 7
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... put it on a par with other more respected subjects. Most remarkable was his fluency as a composer. Jeremy Dibble’s newly revised biography has a list of his complete works, which runs to 43 pages: seven symphonies, nine operas, four piano concertos, three violin concertos, one concerto each for cello and clarinet, five organ sonatas, eight string ...

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