Bromsgrove Festival’s evening celebrating Delius’ sesquicentenary was a charming idea, attracting a large audience to the atmospherically medieval (despite its name) New Guesten Hall for a recital by one of the most spectacular recent prizewinners of the festival’s International Young Musician’s Platform, and beginning with a screening of Ken Russell’s acclaimed television documentary recounting the years the young Eric Fenby devoted himself as amanuensis to the blind, paralysed and dying composer.Read
