The one hundred and nineteenth classical recording: #570 Frederick Delius - Brigg Fair
Brigg Fair is a short piece, creating an orchestral song for a folk song. It's a nic epiece, exploring variations on the theme with some quite rousing elements, but without being familiar with the original I guess some of the impact might be lost. It's the final where it really pays off, going from gentle with some stirring segments to a large finale, not as big as you might hear in other works, but big for the gentle, I suppose country life-appropriate style of the piece. It never goes big, but it knows its setting and where to go from there.