 Fenby recounts that on his first day in Grez, Jelka played Beecham's "First Cuckoo" recording.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.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.