George Lloyd - recommended music. 

This selection by Rob Barnett, reprinted from BBC Music Magazine, may be helpful for those new to Lloyd's music.  Lloyd has been well served by record companies, particularly Albany Records, which recorded his concertos, symphonies and choral work, together with some opera and chamber music. These recordings were acquired by Lyrita in 2024, and have been reissued as the George Lloyd Signature Edition. A selection with Catalogue Numbers is shown below. 

SYMPHONY NO. 4  SRCD 2417 and SRCD 2258 (was TROY 498)
Albany SO/Lloyd   Philharmonia/Downes
Lloyd's attempt to come to terms with his wartime experiences

SYMPHONY NO. 11  SRCD 2418 (was TROY 060)
Albany SO/Lloyd 
Another large scale work, with a wider range of orchestration

SYMPHONY NO. 7  SRCD 2418 (was TROY 057)
BBC Philharmonic/Lloyd
The best of Lloyd, controlled, dark in spirit,

heroic in execution and beautiful

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4SRCD 2421 (was AR004) 
Kathryn Stott (piano) LSO/Lloyd 
This concerto complements the symphonies recommended here,
demonstrating Lloyd's range of expression

Works for Violin and Piano  SRCD 424 (was TROY 029)

VIOLIN SONATA and LAMENT, AIR AND DANCE,

and 7 Extracts from THE SERF
Tasmin Little (violin), Ruth Rogers (Violin) Simon Callaghan (piano), Martin Roscoe (piano) 
Apart from works for piano (solo and 4 Hands) this is the only chamber music which Lloyd wrote.

REQUIEM and PSALM 130    SRCD 420 (was TROY 450)
The Exon Singers conducted by Matthew Owens,
with Stephen Wallace, (counter-tenor) 

Written in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, this was the composer's final work and represents a conscious leave-taking, 'under sentence of mortality' and with full realisation that it could only be completed if the music was pared down to small chorus and organ. This disc will be lovingly appreciated by any admirer of the vocal music of Faure, Rutter or Holst. A lovely remembrance of a warm-hearted composer who wrote against the spirit of the times and whose music finally met success. His was a dazzling creativity.

Rob Barnett