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WILLIAM ALWYN
Symphony No. 4 / Sinfonietta Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] "Lloyd-Jones has shown on disc before that he favours a direct approach as indeed he does here. He's a clear-sighted guide and is aided by fine orchestral playing and a particularly good recording spectrum." (MusicWeb March 2006) |
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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Complete Symphonies / Orchestral Works Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / 7 CD Box Set - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "The playing of the Scottish Orchestra is clear and refined, helped by the transparency of the recording, clarifying often thick textures." Penguin Guide |
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ARTHUR BLISS
Checkmate (complete ballet) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "I recommend this CD without reservation. I’m sure it will be on my shortlist of Recordings of the Year." (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No. 3 / The Happy Forest Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] He dedicated the work, described by the viola-player Bernard Shore as 'as thrilling to playas to listen to,' to Sir Henry Wood, a champion of his music, who conducted the first performance of the symphony in March 1930. |
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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No 4 / Overture to a Picaresque Comedy / Nympholept Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2002 ] Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine) May 2002 |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring & other orchestral works Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Feb/2004 ] "Lloyd-Jones has the measure of Delius's elusive idiom in both rarities and favourites" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (March 2004) |
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ARNOLD BAX
Symphonic Poems (Incls Tintagel & The Happy Forest ) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2005 ] "Lloyd-Jones' magisterial accounts of the composer's symphonies have made their mark in a small but hotly contested arena, each CD topped up with one of the composer's symphonic poems. Five of these works have now been reissued on a separate disc."... |
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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No. 6 / Into the Twilight / Summer Music Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 19/May/2003 ] "This latest release, played with immense character and bags of colour by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, arguably presents the most powerful and profound reading of the Sixth Symphony yet recorded." - Music Week, March 29, 2003 |
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SHAKESPEARE
Othello (recorded live in June, 2015) Royal Shakespeare Company / Hugh Quarshie, Lucian Msamati, Joanna Vanderham & Jacob Fortune-Lloyd / Iqbal Khan (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies. Lucian Msamati makes theatrical history in being the first black actor ever to play Iago at the RSC. |
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WILLIAM ALWYN
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 / Harp Concerto, 'Lyra Angelica' Suzanne Willison (harp) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] "This disk can be placed alongside those of the composer and Richard Hickox and its price as well as its performance quality make it a valuable contribution to the Alwyn discography." |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah... The 250th Anniversary Performance recorded in 1992 Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jerry Hadley, Michael Chance and Robert Lloyd / Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner [ Philips / DVD - released 23/Aug/2004 ] G :- This famous 1992 performance of Handel's great masterpiece was filmed at the Point Theatre, Dublin, on the 250th anniversary of the work's premiere, which took place in Dublin on 13 April 1742. |
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PATRICK HAWES
Lazarus Requiem Thomas Walker (tenor), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) & Rachael Lloyd (mezzo-soprano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Patrick Hawkes [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] Patrick Hawes returns to disc on Signum with the premiere recording of his 'Lazarus Requiem', for Choir, Orchestra and Soloists. Blending the liturgical text of the Requiem Mass with the story of Lazarus from the New Testament, the composer blends a... |
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ARTHUR BLISS
Cello Concerto / Music for Strings Tim Hugh (cello) / English Northern Philharmonia / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2003 ] "Tim Hugh's adroitly managed and deeply personal reading...Tim Hugh has unquestionably set the benchmark in the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto" - Fanfare |
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GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral works (Including Invocation for Cello and Orchestra) Tim Hugh (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2002 ] "Sherbakov rises magnificently to the considerable technical and expressive demands of Respighi's piano writing" - Fanfare |
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PHILIP GLASS
The Concerto Project Vol 1: Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra / Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Evelyn Glennie (timp) Jonathan Haas (timp) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 28/Feb/2009 ] This is the first of a series of four CDs that Philip Glass and Orange Mountain Music have planned entitled "The Concerto Project, No. I-IV" Each disc contains two concerti. Omm0016 features Julian Lloyd Webber with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic... |
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VERDI
Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 2004) Netherlands Opera / Rolando Villazón, Robert Lloyd, Amanda Roocroft / Riccardo Chailly (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] "a fabulous summation of Chailly's qualities as a Verdi conductor… A wonderful piece of stagecraft" (The Guardian) |
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Cliff Richard, Russ Conway, Shirley Bassey, Connie Francis, Elvis Presley, The Fleetwoods, Lloyd Price, etc
Hits Of '59 - Only Sixteen [ Retrospective / CD - released 8/Feb/2010 ] 32 original hits by the original artists - 25 number ones! Tracks include One Night - Elvis Presley, Living Doll - Cliff Richard, It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Buddy Holly, 'Til I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers, As I Love You - Shirley Bassey, What... |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Collection (Cats / Jesus Christ Superstar / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat / The Royal Albert Hall Celebration) [ Universal Pictures DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2011 ] Four spectacular shows on four discs! |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jesus Christ Superstar 50th Anniversary (Double Gatefold LP) [ Geffen Records / 2 LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1970 concept double album, Jesus Christ Superstar, special anniversary edition albums will be released on September 24th. In 1970, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber released Jesus Christ Superstar as a concept... |
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
The Platinum Collection (2 CD) Andrew Lloyd Webber, Murray Head, Sarah Brightman, Julie Covington, Michael Ball, Yvonne Elliman & others [ Polydor Records CD / 2 CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] The ultimate greatest hits collection from the works of one the most successful composers of the modern era. Features newly-recorded versions of songs by artists the stature of LANA DEL REY, GREGORY PORTER, and NICOLE SCHERZINGER. |