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George Lloyd - Charade, Symphony no.3 | Albany TROY090

George Lloyd - Charade, Symphony no.3

Label: Albany

Cat No: TROY090

Barcode: 0034061000907

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

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Contents

Artists

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

George Lloyd

Works

Lloyd, George

Charade
Symphony no.3 in F major

Artists

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

George Lloyd

About

"Some dozen years ago I decided I must get rid of my early pieces; anything written before my opera Iernin was suspect. I had a glorious bonfire and would have added my first three symphonies to the flames. There was a difficulty; by the time I was clearing away all this debris I had written seven more symphonies and I could not face having to change all the names and numberings on the scores and orchestral parts. The simplest course was to revise the first three and leave them to take their fate. This I did for Nos. 1 & 2 but the Third has been left virtually as it was apart from a few very small additions. I wrote the first three symphonies when I was 19 and at that time, with all the arrogance of youth, I greatly disliked large symphonies in the romantic style - except for Elgar's No.2, which I still believe is the best symphony ever written by an Englishman. So I decided that if I wrote symphonies they would be short. If I was deadly serious when I wrote my Third Symphony I certainly had my tongue in my cheek for Charade, which is subtitled Scenes from the '60s. It was written in 1968 and is a send-up of some of the oddities of that decade; I greatly enjoyed making fun of the period. The six movements are titled 'Student Power', 'LSD', 'March-In', 'Flying Saucers', 'Pop Song', and 'Party Politics'." – George Lloyd

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