Summer in Paradise

Track Listings

1. Hot Fun in the Summertime

2. Surfin'

3. Summer of Love

4. Island Fever

5. Still Surfin'

6. Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night)

7. Strange Things Happen

8. Remember (Walking in the Sand)

9. Lahaina Aloha

10. Under the Boardwalk

11. Summer in Paradise

12. Forever

Tracks:

Paris: The Song Of A Great City
In A Summer Garden
Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody
The Walk To The Paradise Garden
Two Pieces For Small Orchestra: On Hearing From The First Cuckoo In Spring
Two Pieces For Small Orchestra: Summer Night On The River

Customer Reviews:

Magnificent performances of a singular composer........2004-05-04

Frederick Delius (1862-1934) is often called an "English impressionist," a term which implies that he can be lumped together with Debussy or Ravel. But just as Debussy isn't Ravel and Ravel isn't Debussy, Delius is an artist unlike any other.

He has never been a world-renowned figure, and his music doesn't have the power or universality of Beethoven or Mozart, but for those who love Delius, he is one of the sublime creators in the history of music. I, for one, love his music, and these exemplary performances of some of his best-known works present this singular creative mind at his very best.

Delius has some superficial similarities to Debussy and Ravel, but his highly personal harmonic thinking and his penchant for subtle but pronounced melodies make his music among the most accessible and rewarding of any in the classical repertory. The titles of his pieces, from "In a Summer Garden" to "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring," demonstrate his preoccupation with beauty and the evocation of nature. His work is subdued, quietly passionate, and immediate in its rewards. In Delius, refinement rather than hysteria is the defining element.

Tracks:

Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: Brigg Fair:I. Introduction (Slow. Pastoral)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: Brigg Fair:I. Theme (With Easy Movement)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: I. Variation 1
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: I. Var. 2
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: I. Var. 3
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: I. Var 4
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: I. Var. 5
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: I. Var. 6
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: II. Interlude (Slow And Very Quietly)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Var. 7 (Rather quicker but not hurried)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Var. 8
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Var. 9 (With easy movement)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Var 10
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Var. 11 (Slow. With Solemnity)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Var. 12 (Maestoso)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: III. Transition
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV. Var 13 (Gaily)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV. Var. 14
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV. Var. 15
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV. Var 16
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV. Transition (Rather quicker)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV.Var.17 (Rather Slower. Very Broadly)
Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody: IV. Coda(Very Quietly)
In A Summer Garden
Rehearsing Appalachia
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Appalachia:Introduction (Molto moderato - Tranquillo - Poco piu)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Theme (Andante)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Variation 1
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 2 (Moderato)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 3 (Piu vivo)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 4 (Molto moderato)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 5 (Con moto)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 6 (Giocoso. Allegro moderato)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 7 (Lento e molto tranquillo)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 8 (Misterioso)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 9 (Andante con grazia)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 10 (Lento sostenuto e tranquillo)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 11 (Allegro alla marcia)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 12 (Marcia. MOlto lento maestoso)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 13 (L'istesso tempo)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Var. 14 (Misterioso lento)
Apalachia - Variations On An Old Slave Song With Final Chorus: Finale (Lento - Piu mosso)

Tracks:

On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring - F. DELIUS
Summer Night On The River - F. DELIUS
A Song Before Sunrise - F. DELIUS
Intermezzo And Serenade From 'Hassan': Intermezzo - F. DELIUS
Intermezzo And Serenade From 'Hassan': Serenade - F. DELIUS
La Calinda - F. DELIUS
Late Swallows - F. DELIUS
Fennimore And Gerda: Intermezzo from 'Fennimore and Gerda' - F. DELIUS
The Walk To The Paradise Garden: The Walk To The Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo and Juliet - F. DELIUS
Irmelin Prelude - F. DELIUS
A Song Of Summer - F. DELIUS

Customer Reviews:

Rapturous !.......2003-01-15

I find these renditions by Sir John Barbirolli totally beguiling. He brings warmth and deep sincerity to everything he portrays here. One surely senses the great love he had for Delius' music. Much of the charm wrought by the conductor has to do with the turn of various phrases. Time and again he caresses melodies. Simultaneously, he conveys a feeling of simple joyousness. Hear the Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; the Irmelin Prelude, with its pastoral beauty; La Calinda, where one feels serenaded in a happy, carefree manner. A Song Before Sunrise weaves a similar pattern. In addition, there's that wonderful exotic quality that here and there echoes in Delius' music. Brigg Fair seems to have both this at some moments and yet a pleasing, homespun British character during other moments. Sometimes too there is a nostalgic yearning. In this vein, one can only relax and drink in the expressive portrait of Late Swallows. And what about the playful, carefree In a Summer Garden or the imposing, spiritual folk picture, Appalachia ? In so many ways, both this sensitive composer and conductor reach out to touch the life-affirming soul. How can one not be soothed and refreshed by what is offered here ? If there's anything missing, perhaps it's the composer's Summer Evening, another of his memorable pieces. A wonderful collection, and a source of inspiration. By the way, I find Barbirolli's Delius more enjoyable than Beecham's.

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A Most Beautiful Classical Recording!

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The Walk To The Paradise Garden
The Opera 'Hassan': Intermezzo and Serenade
A Song before Sunrise
On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
Summer Night On The River
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Serenade For Strings, Op. 20: Larghetto
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Customer Reviews:

A Most Beautiful Classical Recording!.......2000-02-22

This is one of my favorite classical albums. I find myself listening to it very frequently. Of particular enjoyment is disc two featuring beautiful and stirring works by Delius and Elgar. This is a most relaxing and refreshing recording that will wonderfully and continually soothe the mind and soul!

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A Fun Album, and NOT Carl's Last Recordings
This is Paradise?
All that was missing was Brian - as usual
ESSENTIAL BEACH BOYS. LAST TIME FOR CARL.
Summer In Paradise

Summer in Paradise
The Beach Boys , and John Stamos
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Tracks:

Hot Fun in the Summertime
Surfin'
Summer of Love
Island Fever
Still Surfin'
Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night)
Strange Things Happen
Remember (Walking in the Sand)
Lahaina Aloha
Under the Boardwalk
Summer in Paradise
Forever

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A Fun Album, and NOT Carl's Last Recordings.......2007-05-26

I'm a die-hard Beach Boys and Brian Wilson fanatic - and nothing after 1977 is close to 5 stars (unless you count Brian's solo work) - BUT as a lover of tropical music and Beach Boys sounds, I enjoyed their late 70's early 80's work, and the 1985 album, and Kokomo, and Still Cruisin, so when this hit stores I bought it and was immediately impressed with the sounds and harmonies. It's a fun record, OK? Some nice new songs like Lahaina Aloha, Island Fever, and Still Surfin. A great cover of Hot Fun In The Summertime. (but I never listen to the John Stamos thing at the end..) Do the recent albums by Chicago or America or Neil Diamond or Paul McCartney sound like or equal the ones from the 60's and 70's? No, but many are still great. Hey, it's Carl Wilson and Mike Love singing about summer!

NOTE: Carl Wilson made another album after this, a great one with Robert Lamm of Chicago and Gerry Beckley of America called BECKLEY LAMM WILSON - "Like A Brother". It was recently reissued with 3 bonus tracks (see Robert Lamm's website).

This is Paradise?.......2007-03-12

To prove my point that this is one of the worst Beach Boys albums ever (along with the truly dreadful "M.I.U."), just look at these insipid lyrics:

Surfers recycle now dont you know
Like everyone from california down to kokomo
We're gonna keep on rockin
And raising world consciousness
We gotta fix this mess

The only mess they need to fix is this album. Sadly, it's the last one that included the incredible voice of Carl Wilson. Try not to remember this as his swan song, please.

All that was missing was Brian - as usual.......2007-02-18

This is nowhere near as bad an album as some of it's reviews, although the Surfin' remake is just as bad as you've heard, if not worse.

There are several track here worth having if you're a BB fan looking for more stuff you havent heard. Strange Things Happen/Still Surfin'/Lahaina Aloha/Under the Boardwalk are all must haves, Summer in Paradise is good here but sounds MUCH MUCH better on the live version in circulation, and there are several mediocre tracks(Hot Fun in the Summertime, Island Fever) along with some typical Mike Love throwaway tracks("Sum-Sum" Summer of Love).

During the early stages of recording, Al Jardine was "suspended" from the band for a supposedly "severe attitude problem", returning only during the final weeks of production. Historically speaking, it was the only Beach Boys album of new material NOT to chart. A source close to the band once reported the album sold only 1,000 copies when first released(although the band reported it at 145,000 which was possibly the number of albums actually shipped to record stores). As a result of the poor sales, several tracks were remixed for a subsequent overseas release, with lesser results.

What really holds this album back more than anything is the electronic drum machine used on almost every track. This gives nearly every song an over-processed, 80's, demo-type sound and cheapens the proceedings, but not enough to make tha album unlistenable by any means. Comparatively speaking, in my opinion, Summer in Paradise is no worse than Brian's recent Gettin' In Over My Head solo effort.

You might notice while listening that nearly every song on the album has lifted a previous BB/Brian Wilson harmony. This goes right along with Love's lyric on Summer in Paradise "Surfer's recycle, now don't ya know, all the way from California, down to Ko-ko-mo."

But despite the issues described above, Summer in Paradise is a must-have for any real fan or those who just to hear some of Carl's last work. We all love the Beach Boys most for their vocals & harmonies and both are in EXCELLENT form here - even if some of the lyrics are stale.

For Carl fans, don't miss his later CD collabration with Beckley and Lamm titled Like A Brother - Carl's lead on the track I Wish For You is simply magnificent!!

ESSENTIAL BEACH BOYS. LAST TIME FOR CARL........2006-07-04

If you have read Paul Williams' book, "Outlaw Blues" then you can write a negative review (less than 4 stars). If not, don't bother. For those of us who truly appreciate the individual genius of each member of the BB's, this is the last chance we have to hear Carl before he died. Thanks Carl, we miss you. So listen with both ears and don't complain.

Summer In Paradise.......2006-01-20

Mostly a good album, some things could have been skipped. It is the one Beach Boys album that features Full House cast member John Stamos as a soloist (he also appeared on Kokomo, plus some Jan & Dean albums as well). He first played drums for the group in 1972, after a hand injury prevented Dennis Wilson from playing drums on stage. This recording of Forever was used on a Full House episode. It features a 90's version of Surfing (a song dating back to the Morgan sessions in 1961), a family-friendly take of The Drifter's Under The Boardwalk, plus great classic rock hits such as Hot Fun In The Summertime, Remember Walking In The Sand, and One Summer Night. The rest is Mike Love/Terry Melcher penned tunes.

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Delius: Orchestral Works

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Release Date: 1999-05-11

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ABBEY ROAD
One could hardly wish for better performances.
One could hardly wish for better performances.
Delius in Mezzotint

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Tracks:

A Village Romeo And Juliet: The Walk To The Paradise Garden: Intermezzo - Sir Thomas Beecham/RPO
Sea Drift - London Select Chor/John Brownlee
Fennimore And Gerda: Intermezzo
In A Summer Garden
Over The Hills And Far Away

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These performances of five works by Delius under Thomas Beecham, his friend and foremost champion, are incomparable for their authenticity and the beauty of their sound. The music has all the hallmarks of Delius's style: the calm, lyrical serenity; the shimmering, colorful, often lush orchestration; the evocation of nature, not through imitative sound effects, but rather through its peaceful, languid atmosphere. "The Walk to the Paradise Garden," from A Village Romeo and Juliet, a lovely, pastoral, impressionist piece, was recorded in 1927 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a group of freelance musicians; the rest, recorded in 1936, features the London Philharmonic, formed by Beecham in 1932. The playing throughout is beguilingly beautiful, and no wonder: the woodwinds include some of the greatest English players of the time, notably oboist Léon Goossens and clarinetist Reginald Kell. Their solos shed a special, delicate luster over "In a Summer Garden" and the Intermezzo from the opera Fennimore and Gerda, assembled from the prelude and two scenes by Eric Fenby, Delius's selfless, indispensable secretary, and performed here for the first time. "Over the Hills and Far Away," a youthful work clearly influenced by Wagner, is simple, wistful, and episodic. The disc's most substantial piece is "Sea Drift," for baritone, chorus, and orchestra, set to a long poem by Walt Whitman (the text, alas, is not included). Colorful, atmospheric, somewhat discursive, with many changes of mood and texture, it rises to several dramatic climaxes, but ends in resignation. Brownlee's voice is a bit dry, but he sings with much understanding; the chorus is excellent. --Edith Eisler

Customer Reviews:

ABBEY ROAD.......2005-01-22

Starting in 1934, the year of the composer's death, Beecham recorded three series of Delius performances at two-year rests. This disc gives us the 1936 selection together with The Walk to the Paradise Garden done in 1927. To my ears the sound here shows a distinct advance in quality over the first record in this set of reissues, enough of an advance for me to feel able to give this disc a fifth star.

The step-change in the recorded quality is down to Abbey Road, the studio in West Hampstead made famous by the Beatles. It had been custom-built to the latest ideas of the time, and seems to have satisfied even the exacting Beecham. Choral recording in those days was seen as a greater challenge than recording an orchestra, and even in 2005 I would say that the technicians managed to do an admirable job with the massive forces required for Sea Drift. The technical side of this reissue has been masterminded again by David Lennick, and he gives us an interesting little note of his own on a particular problem he faced, the consequence no doubt of the short recording takes that were imposed by the limitations of 78rpm technology. The fault had been spotted too late and only 'corrected' at the expense of introducing another problem. If Mr Lennick is letting us know what a good job he did in the circumstances I should say he has every right to do so.

The soloist in Sea Drift is the Australian baritone John Brownlee. His diction is absolutely exemplary, which is just as well since the words of the poem are not provided. Even the chorus are remarkably distinct in their enunciation once one's ears have got used to the ambience of the sound generally. As for the quality of the performances, the name of Beecham in relation to Delius probably makes much further comment superfluous. All the familiar grace and suppleness in the phrasing are here as ever, and the luscious ripe-to-overripe orchestral effects are starting to make something of their full effect thanks to Abbey Road. Beecham was to a great extent in a position to specify his own orchestral players, and few listeners will be liable to miss the special contributions of the oboe from Leon Goossens and the clarinet in the hands of Reginald Kell.

Like the first disc of the series, this record benefits from another fine and fascinating liner-note by Lyndon Jenkins, chairman of the Delius Society. The series of three discs is available at very modest cost, and I look forward to being able to report shortly that it can be recommended in its entirety.

One could hardly wish for better performances........2002-08-09

This second historic CD of works by Frederick Delius conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham offers all the items that appeared in the 1936 Delius Society volume. In addition there is Beecham's 1927 recording of "The Walk To the Paradise Garden", a recording that especially delighted Delius himself. Recorded at various times during 1936 in Studio 1, Abbey Road, the other items may be heard in slightly better sound quality than that which emerged from the first CD in this Naxos series of three. One could hardly wish for better performances. "Sea Drift" is the work and the performance to treasure here. It features the fine Australian baritone John Brownlee.

One could hardly wish for better performances........2002-07-31

Delius in Mezzotint.......2000-10-03

There is not exactly a Frederick Delius controversy: Those who like him, like him; everyone else ignores him. Once, however, the fires of opinion crackled high. Certain affiliations of the composer, such as his use of Nietzsche as the text of his Mass of Life or his friendship with the playwright Strindberg, put Delius as it were in the company of the then artistic avant-garde (I speak of the fin-de-siecle). These associations endowed the music with a certain aura of daring, and for a while some critics, especially in Germany, even considered Delius one of the chief competitors of Richard Strauss. The Delius partisans in England also advocated their champion as an important figure in modern music. One of them - in his way, the most convinced of them all - organized two Delius Festivals (1929 and 1946), week-long affairs devoted to the master's big orchestral-and-choral scores, deferring much of the expense himself. This was Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Beecham, whose advocacy went beyond the Festival into an ambitious recording-program of his friend's music, much of it subsidized by The Delius Society, which Beecham himself helped to organize. At the nadir of Delius' reputation, after World War II, the memory of him dependend largely on Beecham's pioneering studio-work. Collins and Barbirolli made recordings in the LP era, and many conductors have sampled the shorter works for CD (Richard Hickox has been issuing digital realizations of the major scores for a decade), but Beecham's original go-around have remained the interpretive benchmark. Now Naxos, as part of its "Great Conductors" series, gives us remasterings of some of Beecham's original Delius platters. Volume II centers on a magnificent 1936 reading of the choral suite Sea Drift to achingly lyrical words by Walt Whitman. Beecham leads the Royal Philharmonic and the London Select Choir; John Brownlee is the perfect baritone for the solo part. Much of the Beecham-Delius collaboration has already appeared on CD on the Dutton label. Those are magnificent remasterings. The advantage of the Naxos series, comparable with Dutton in the beauty of its sound, lies in its low price. For a mere six dollars or so, one can hear directly Beecham's passionate case for this music, the wonderful warmth of the players and singers, the excitement of the event. The CD includes four shorter works: The Walk to Paradise Garden from the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, the Intermezzo from the opera Fennimore and Gerda (after a novel by the Dane Jacobsen), the tone-poem In a Summer Garden, and the early overture Over the Hills and Far Away. Maybe Delius wasn't a "great," maybe he simply tapped into a vein of late-romantic nostalgia. However the quibbling estheticians might decide it, Beecham makes us believe that this is the pure distillate of heartache and beauty. And so, while one listens, it is.

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Heavenly

Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden

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For years, the only champion of the music of Frederic Delius (1862-1934) was Sir Thomas Beecham. His music was too moody--sometimes even flabby--for the British public. But his tone poems, which constitutes the bulk of his compositions, made way for Arnold Bax and countless others. Richard Hickox's take on these works is a moderate one, exercising restrain where Beecham let go ... or wallowed. Excellent here are the two Dance Rhapsodies and the killer "North Country Sketches," perhaps Delius's best-known work. If the Beecham recordings are hard to find, then the Chandos series is probably your best bet. --Paul Cook

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Heavenly.......2006-11-27

Some people might sneer at Delius, but for a certain kind of atmospheric music with a very strong ability to create a bucolic mood he is a master.
This record does total justice to this composer.

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Delius: Violin Concerto and other orchestral music

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Another very favorable report

Delius: Violin Concerto and other orchestral music

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001XP1P0
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

Prelude
La Calinda (Dance)
The Walk To The Paradise Garden (Intermezzo)
Intermezzo
With Moderate Tempo - Philippe Djokic
Maestoso - Philippe Djokic
Allegretto - Philippe Djokic
On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
Summer Night On The River
Sleigh Ride

Customer Reviews:

Another very favorable report.......2006-01-15

If you don't know Delius's music, this would be a great place to start. Several of the most popular miniatures are here (Walk to Paradise Garden, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, etc.), along with the lesser-known Violin Concerto. Tintner's approach is generally more leisurely than Beecham and Barbirolli (both of whom were great Delius interpreters). I would be inclined to say that Tintner doesn't mind a bit of "wallowing in impressionistic haze," but agree that we don't lose any clarity here, and to the extent Tintner "wallows," it sure is nice. The violin concerto does not come across in a forceful or aggressive manner, either, which, again, I rather like. And the sound is very good, certainly competitive with most other Delius discs I've heard.

If you like this, you might enjoy Beecham's early recordings of Delius (20's and 30's) on Naxos. Very fresh, and in surprisingly decent sound.

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