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This compilation is a valuable reminder that even the most celebrated musicians didn’t think it all up on their own
Frederick Delius
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Many great composers were also great improvisers, Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner among them
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Frederick Delius’s rarely performed opera demolishes standard music history, and other composers owe it a debt that often goes unpaid
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The downside to seeing the tenor’s NCH appearance was that I missed an apparently great Wexford production
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