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Lloyd - Symphonies 1-6 | Lyrita SRCD2417

Lloyd - Symphonies 1-6

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Label: Lyrita

Cat No: SRCD2417

Barcode: 5020926241726

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st March 2024

Contents

Artists

BBC Philharmonic
Albany Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

George Lloyd

Works

Lloyd, George

Charade
John Socman
» Overture
Symphony no.1 in A major
Symphony no.2
Symphony no.3 in F major
Symphony no.4 'Arctic'
Symphony no.5 in B Flat
Symphony no.6

Artists

BBC Philharmonic
Albany Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

George Lloyd

About

George Lloyd became a symphonist despite himself. When he was in his twenties he seemed destined to be a composer of operas and it is likely that, had the vicissitudes of war not intervened, he would have written music for the stage exclusively. In an article for the June 1939 issue of the Musical Monthly Record, Harry Farjeon wondered why music for Lloyd was ‘not centred in the concert hall but in the theatre’ and quoted the young composer as being ‘interested only in opera’.

There are strong traces in the symphonies of what might have been: the intensely lyrical, cantabile nature of the writing; the intermezzo-like movements; the opera buffa qualities of the finales and the feeling for the long line which runs through those supple and sweeping melodies all denote a born opera composer. In the event his operatic aspirations were cruelly cut short and it is to his courageous, life-affirming twelve symphonies that we must look to chart his development, recovery and eventual triumph.

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