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) |
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 |
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) |
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. |
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 |
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) |
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."... |
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 |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor / The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] "Part of an excellent cycle of Bax symphonies. Start with this disc and I'll bet you'll want the rest." - Sterophile (Sam Tellig) June 2001 |
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. |
CONSTANT LAMBERT
Lambert: The Rio Grande / Summer's Last Will and Testament / etc Sally Burgess (mezzo) William Shimell (baritone) Jack Gibbons (piano) / English Northern Sinfonia / David Lloyd-Jones [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - RECORD OF THE YEAR, THE INDEPENDENT GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (the complete opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2006) Salzburg Festival / Thomas Hampson / Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Christine SchA¤fer / Robert Lloyd / Vienna Philharmonic / Daniel Harding (conductor) [ Decca Classics / Mozart 22 / 2 DVD - released 12/Dec/2006 ] G - "Fresh, transparent, dashing." -Die Presse, Vienna |
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." |
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... |
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 |
Tommy Castro/Hall Jimmy/Jones Lloyd
Tommy Castro/Hall Jimmy/Jones Lloyd [ Telarc Records / CD ] |
Verdi, Giu
Aida Tomowa-Sintow, Fassbaender, Domingo, Nimsgern, Lloyd, Hillebrand; Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorc [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 28/Jun/2002 ] |
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Classical Tribute Various Artists incls Julian Lloyd Webber, Jose Carreras, Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins & Lesley Garrett [ Universal Music / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] To celebrate ALW's 60th Birthday on March 22nd 2008, artists such as José Carreras, Placido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, and his own brother Julian Lloyd Webber perform highlights from Andrew's most beloved works. |
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... |
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) |