MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lloyd: Eleventh Symphony
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GEORGE LLOYD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lloyd: Eleventh Symphony
Albany Symphony Orchestra, George Lloyd
[ Albany / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 2 July 1990
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Here's the work that started it all. Back in 1977 Albany Symphony president Peter Kermani heard a BBC broadcast of Lloyd's Symphony No. 8 which absolutely enthralled him. When an opportunity struck in 1984, he dispatched Albany Symphony manager Susan Bush to London to commission a new symphony, which resulted in the wonderful Symphony No. 11 from George Lloyd. This present writer was at the premiere on October 31, 1986 and, like the rest of the audience, was absolutely captivated by the work; a piece that blended both thrills and repose, and pageantry and sentimentality-plus many memorable tunes (imagine, in this day and age, a third movement which was an elaborate and kaleidoscopic waltz!). We all believed that George Lloyd was England's greatest musical secret revealed.
"We come now to what is perhaps the most impressive symphony of all, the Eleventh, commissioned and superbly played by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, again under the composer. It is in five movements, the first on the largest scale, but it is the Lento which shows Lloyd at the height of his lyrical powers and in its passionate, expansive romanticism it reminds me of Hanson's Romantic Symphony...The scherzo is exuberantly graceful, then there is dark funeral music before the exultant, optimistic finale. The performance has all the power and freshness of discovery of a masterwork and the recording is splendidly worthy of the music" Gramophone
