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vandermolen

#600
April 04, 2024, 01:17:33 PM
I see that Lyrita are releasing a whole batch of Lloyd sets. Lyrita never issued the piano concertos so, I guess, that these must be the concertos originally issued on Albany. I have all the symphonies on individual releases including the fine Lyrita set featuring symphonies 4, 5 and 8, so, for now at least, I'm resisting the symphony sets despite their excellent value.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

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foxandpeng

#601
April 04, 2024, 10:45:48 PM
Well, today's release of Symphonies 7 - 12 finally gives me opportunity to listen to works that I have waited a long time to hear. Happy boy.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Harry

#602
April 04, 2024, 11:08:21 PM
Quote from: foxandpeng on April 04, 2024, 10:45:48 PMWell, today's release of Symphonies 7 - 12 finally gives me opportunity to listen to works that I have waited a long time to hear. Happy boy.


O, Yeah ;D  ;D  ;D
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Maestro267

#603
April 05, 2024, 12:41:35 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 04, 2024, 01:17:33 PMI see that Lyrita are releasing a whole batch of Lloyd sets. Lyrita never issued the piano concertos so, I guess, that these must be the concertos originally issued on Albany. I have all the symphonies on individual releases including the fine Lyrita set featuring symphonies 4, 5 and 8, so, for now at least, I'm resisting the symphony sets despite their excellent value.

All of these reissues were originally on Albany. The Piano Concertos are coming in June.

vandermolen

#604
April 05, 2024, 03:42:04 AM
Quote from: Maestro267 on April 05, 2024, 12:41:35 AMAll of these reissues were originally on Albany. The Piano Concertos are coming in June.
Thanks  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Maestro267

#605
April 05, 2024, 04:24:47 AM
The only thing I'm not fully sure about is whether we'll get a reissue of The Vigil of Venus as that was originally on the Arco label.

Maestro267

#606
April 05, 2024, 07:03:30 AM Last Edit: April 05, 2024, 07:20:09 AM by Maestro267
My set of Symphonies 7-12 has arrived. Excellent and detailed liner notes included.

Starting off with the 9th Symphony as it's one of the three in this set I haven't heard yet. I was just completely blown away by the slow movement. I was expecting something on the calm side, like No. 7. But my word it's majestically grim and powerful! I absolutely love it! Brilliantly orchestrated like all of Lloyd's music is. I got similar vibes to the slow movements of Malcolm Arnold's 7th Symphony and more pertinently Arthur Butterworth's Viola Concerto.

Albion

#607
April 05, 2024, 10:23:35 PM
Quote from: Maestro267 on April 05, 2024, 07:03:30 AMMy set of Symphonies 7-12 has arrived. Excellent and detailed liner notes included.

Starting off with the 9th Symphony as it's one of the three in this set I haven't heard yet. I was just completely blown away by the slow movement. I was expecting something on the calm side, like No. 7. But my word it's majestically grim and powerful! I absolutely love it! Brilliantly orchestrated like all of Lloyd's music is. I got similar vibes to the slow movements of Malcolm Arnold's 7th Symphony and more pertinently Arthur Butterworth's Viola Concerto.

Every piece that Lloyd set down on paper was just so carefully crafted and imbued with his personal experience at the time of composition. Ye Dogs, somebody actually wrote memorable tunes between 1930 and 1998! And dared to pop them into symphonies, concertos, choral works and operas...

J
A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it. (SG, 1922)

kyjo

#608
April 06, 2024, 06:58:37 PM
Quote from: Maestro267 on April 05, 2024, 07:03:30 AMMy set of Symphonies 7-12 has arrived. Excellent and detailed liner notes included.

Starting off with the 9th Symphony as it's one of the three in this set I haven't heard yet. I was just completely blown away by the slow movement. I was expecting something on the calm side, like No. 7. But my word it's majestically grim and powerful! I absolutely love it! Brilliantly orchestrated like all of Lloyd's music is. I got similar vibes to the slow movements of Malcolm Arnold's 7th Symphony and more pertinently Arthur Butterworth's Viola Concerto.

Yes, the slow movement of the 9th Symphony is one of Lloyd's darker and harmonically acerbic utterances. It's powerful stuff as you say! The first movement perhaps isn't one of Lloyd's strongest, but the third movement finale is a riotously fun, colorful romp featuring a plethora of "phones and spiels" in the percussion section à la RVW's 8th.

P.S. I haven't been able to get the scherzo of the 4th Symphony out of my head for the past couple weeks! Lloyd sure knew how to write one damn good tune after the next... :D
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Irons

#609
April 07, 2024, 11:18:17 PM
Quote from: foxandpeng on April 04, 2024, 10:45:48 PMWell, today's release of Symphonies 7 - 12 finally gives me opportunity to listen to works that I have waited a long time to hear. Happy boy.

Me too. Impressively produced box set of CDs and value for money off the scale.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Albion

#610
April 08, 2024, 04:32:29 AM
Quote from: Irons on April 07, 2024, 11:18:17 PMMe too. Impressively produced box set of CDs and value for money off the scale.

What a legacy he left us. I am cremating my nephew today who looked after me for 8 years and was murdered on 4th March. He loved my "opera music" as he always called it, no matter what it was. Please pray to Dog for Paul...

Jx
A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it. (SG, 1922)

foxandpeng

#611
April 08, 2024, 09:44:17 AM
Quote from: Albion on April 08, 2024, 04:32:29 AMWhat a legacy he left us. I am cremating my nephew today who looked after me for 8 years and was murdered on 4th March. He loved my "opera music" as he always called it, no matter what it was. Please pray to Dog for Paul...

Jx

Sorry to hear this. Loss is dreadful.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Albion

#612
April 08, 2024, 01:36:18 PM
Thankyou fox. I've organised and paid for eight funerals thus far, mostly because those who were next of kin couldn't be arsed. Humanity simply steps aside in these cases. But love continues, as it clearly did with George Lloyd (aka Margaret Rutherford).

Love to all in the forum. Jxx
A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it. (SG, 1922)

foxandpeng

#613
April 08, 2024, 04:20:54 PM
Quote from: Albion on April 08, 2024, 01:36:18 PMThankyou fox. I've organised and paid for eight funerals thus far, mostly because those who were next of kin couldn't be arsed. Humanity simply steps aside in these cases. But love continues, as it clearly did with George Lloyd (aka Margaret Rutherford).

Love to all in the forum. Jxx

Yes, it does. Thinking of you!
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

JBS

#614
April 08, 2024, 05:16:27 PM
Quote from: Albion on April 08, 2024, 04:32:29 AMWhat a legacy he left us. I am cremating my nephew today who looked after me for 8 years and was murdered on 4th March. He loved my "opera music" as he always called it, no matter what it was. Please pray to Dog for Paul...

Jx
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Irons

#615
April 09, 2024, 12:12:42 AM
Quote from: Albion on April 08, 2024, 01:36:18 PMThankyou fox. I've organised and paid for eight funerals thus far, mostly because those who were next of kin couldn't be arsed. Humanity simply steps aside in these cases. But love continues, as it clearly did with George Lloyd (aka Margaret Rutherford).

Love to all in the forum. Jxx

A sad post which still managed to make me smile (aka Margaret Rutherford). To find humour in the darkest of places is a gift.

Incidentally, I enjoyed Lloyd's 7th very much, good sound too. Fully intend to get to know the work before moving onto 8th
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Papy Oli

#616
April 09, 2024, 02:00:20 AM
Quote from: Albion on April 08, 2024, 04:32:29 AMWhat a legacy he left us. I am cremating my nephew today who looked after me for 8 years and was murdered on 4th March. He loved my "opera music" as he always called it, no matter what it was. Please pray to Dog for Paul...

Jx

Sorry to read this, take care @Albion
Olivier

Roy Bland

#617
April 09, 2024, 02:37:48 AM
Quote from: Albion on April 08, 2024, 04:32:29 AMWhat a legacy he left us. I am cremating my nephew today who looked after me for 8 years and was murdered on 4th March. He loved my "opera music" as he always called it, no matter what it was. Please pray to Dog for Paul...

Jx
It is terrible to hear about your loss. I offer you my most heartfelt condolences

Maestro267

#618
April 09, 2024, 02:56:48 AM
Listening to Symphony No. 8 again as it was the only one of the three (8-10) that I hadn't listened to prior to getting the box set last week that kinda flew over me. I wasn't paying quite as much attention. Maybe it was late, idk.

Maestro267

#619
April 16, 2024, 05:01:39 AM
Riddle me this, fellow Lloyders: A look at the credits for the Lyrita box of Symphonies 7-12 produces a quandary. The recording date for The Serf Orchestral Suite No. 1 is listed as 15 January 2000. It, like every other work in this box, is credited as being "Conducted by the Composer". George Lloyd died in 1998. What do?
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