Static Opulence: Delius’s Worldliness
Leah Broad, 19 January 2023
According to the Times, ‘whatever else he may be Delius is not an acquired taste.’ His lyrical, allusive and sometimes whimsical works have been upheld as the best and worst of early 20th-century music, characterised as both the visionary utterances of a prophet without honour in his own country, and as the ramblings of a figure who represented the last gasp of a dying age.
