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Enjoy Brigg Fair by Frederick Delius (1862-1934):
About this piece:
About this piece:
Frederick Delius 1862 - 1934.One version of the poem for this piece:
Moved by his friend Percy Grainer's choral and instrumental setting of a folksong 'Brigg Fair', which he had collected in Lincolnshire, Delius wrote his own 'English Rhapsody' based on the tune in 1907.
On this 1958 recording, the best exponent and champion of Delius' music Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
The theme is of lovers mirrored in nature after meeting at the fair. The young man rises early in the morning with a yearning for passion and to meet someone special, he goes to Brigg Fair - 'for love I was inclined'!
But not all in life and love runs smoothly or harmoniously as in the folksong.
In this video the innocence of childhood reveals little more than a romantic fantasy. Though the old farmer with his pipe, dressed in a smock and resting on a gate, reflects back on the joys and sorrows of life. A couple walk closely out of the scene emerging from the dark wood at the conclusion symbolizing the continuum of love and life.
Enjoy this fine and sensitive performance of a Delius classic by the Master himself. Try to follow a study of human life and love against the back drop of our lovely, verdant countryside at the peak of Summer. '
It was on the fifth of August-er' the weather fine and fair,
Unto Brigg Fair I did repair, for love I was inclined.
I rose up with the lark in the morning, with my heart so full of glee,
Of thinking there to meet my dear, long time I'd wished to see.
I took hold of her lily-white hand, O and merrily was her heart:
"And now we're met together, I hope we ne'er shall part".
For it's meeting is a pleasure, and parting is a grief,
But an unconstant lover is worse than any thief.
The green leaves they shall wither and the branches they shall die
If ever I prove false to her, to the girl that loves me.
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