Editing Frederick Delius (section)

==Recordings==
The first recordings of Delius's works, in 1927, were conducted by Beecham for the [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia label]]: the "Walk to the Paradise Garden" interlude from ''A Village Romeo and Juliet'', and ''On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring'', performed by the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society. These began a long series of Delius recordings under Beecham that continued for the rest of the conductor's life.<ref name= disco>See Malcolm Walker's "Beecham/Delius discography", included (unpaginated) in Beecham's ''Frederick Delius'' (1975)</ref> He was not alone, however; [[Geoffrey Toye]] in 1929–30 recorded ''Brigg Fair'', ''In a Summer Garden'', ''Summer Night on the River'' and the "Walk to the Paradise Garden". Fenby recounts that on his first day in Grez, Jelka played Beecham's ''First Cuckoo'' recording.<ref>Fenby (1981), p. 23</ref> In May 1934, when Delius was close to death, Fenby played him Toye's ''In a Summer Garden'', the last music, Fenby says, that Delius ever heard.<ref>Fenby (1981), p. 221</ref> By the end of the 1930s Beecham had issued versions for Columbia of most of the main orchestral and choral works, together with several songs in which he accompanied the soprano [[Dora Labbette]] on the piano.<ref name= disco/> By 1936 Columbia and [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]] (HMV) had issued recordings of Violin Sonatas 1 and 2, the ''Elegy and Caprice'', and of some of the shorter works.<ref>Darrell, R.D. ''The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music'', The Gramophone Shop, New York 1936.</ref>

Full recordings of the operas were not available until after the Second World War. Once again Beecham, now with the HMV label, led the way, with ''A Village Romeo and Juliet'' in 1948, performed by the new [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] and Chorus.<ref name= disco/> Later versions of this work include those of [[Meredith Davies]] for [[EMI]] in 1971,<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Delius. A Village Romeo and Juliet — complete|magazine= The Gramophone|date= February 1973|page=97}}</ref> [[Charles Mackerras]] for Argo in 1989,<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Delius. A Village Romeo And Juliet|magazine= Gramophone|date= December 1990|page=134}}</ref> and a German-language version conducted by [[Klauspeter Seibel]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet|magazine= Gramophone|date= October 1995|page=135}}</ref> Beecham's former protégé [[Norman Del Mar]] recorded a complete ''Irmelin'' for BBC Digital in 1985.<ref>March (ed.) pp. 69–70</ref> In 1997 EMI reissued Meredith Davies's 1976 recording of ''Fennimore and Gerda'',<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Delius: Fennimore and Gerda |magazine= Gramophone|date= September 1997|page=106}}</ref> which [[Richard Hickox]] conducted in German the same year for [[Chandos Records|Chandos]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Delius: Fennimore and Gerda|magazine= Gramophone|date= December 1997|page=114}}</ref> Recordings of all the major works, and of many of the individual songs, have been issued at regular intervals since the Second World War. Many of these recordings have been issued in conjunction with the Delius Society, which has prepared various discographies of Delius's recorded music.{{refn|See, for example, [http://www.delius.org.uk/images/journals/pdfs/newsletter24-discography.pdf Delius: a discography compiled by Stuart Upton and Malcolm Walker] The Delius Society, 1969. Also [http://www.delius.org.uk/discography.htm Recordings of Music By Delius] The Delius Society, 2000|group= n}}