Release Date: 01 November 2024
Label: Lyrita - Cd / Lyrita
Packaging Type: Paper Back Book
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9790708221029
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: George Lloyd
Description
George Lloyd started to learn the violin at the age of five and he was a pupil of the violinist Albert Sammons for six years. In his youth, Lloyd's talent as an instrumentalist allowed him to participate in local musical events from formal concerts to more convivial gatherings: a 1930 newspaper report of a 'social in the Zennor schoolroom' observed that 'Mr George Lloyd played the violin and dancing was indulged in'. Looking back on his formative influences, Lloyd singled out Sammons as having the most lasting effect on his burgeoning creativity, identifying the latter's 'instinctive, freely expressive playing' as having a direct bearing on the kind of music he began to write. In this regard, Lloyd's description of the sound of Sammons's playing as 'gorgeous', with 'a lyrical quality' in which 'every note seemed to sing' chimes with the composer's own essentially lyrical approach to musical lines and phrases. The first instrumental work featuring his own instrument which became part of his official catalogue is the Seven Extracts from 'The Serf' for violin and piano (1974). Lloyd's most comprehensive reworking of material from The Serf is undoubtedly the two orchestral suites he wrote in 1997, 23 yet more than two decades before these late large-scale pieces, the composer had produced a more modestly conceived arrangement of music from the opera, the Seven Extracts from 'The Serf', for violin and piano (1974).
Tasmin Little; Martin Roscoe; Ruth Rogers; Simon Callaghan
Simon Callaghan; Ashok Klouda; Members of the Piatti Quartet
Roderick Williams; Marta Fontanals-Simmons; Ben Goldscheider; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Thre
Martin Jones
Lionel Handy; Jennifer Walsh
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
Tasmin Little; Martin Roscoe; Ruth Rogers; Simon Callaghan
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
