David Lloyd-Jones

[Edgy 2]

Just heard that David Lloyd-Jones has passed away

https://www.operanorth.co.uk/news/david-lloyd-jones-1934-2022/

British music fans on here will be familiar with his impressive body of work on the Naxos label

RIP DL-J

[Bryn]

Just heard that David Lloyd-Jones has passed away

https://www.operanorth.co.uk/news/david-lloyd-jones-1934-2022/

British music fans on here will be familiar with his impressive body of work on the Naxos label

RIP DL-J

Sad news, indeed. He did a great deal to develop Opera North and his recordings with Naxos offer much to admire.

[Keraulophone]

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Sad news. DL-J left a valuable recorded legacy and promoted the cause of many unsung and underplayed British composers such as John Gardner (although one of his carols is possibly over-sung!).

R.I.P.
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[makropulos]

Very sad news. RIP. David L-J was a fine opera conductor –I remember a lot of great things, from Prokofiev's War and Peace at ENO in 1971 to wonderful rarities like Strauss's Daphne with Opera North. He did great things for British music too, and we shouldn't forget his 'other' work as an editor: among other things, Boris Godunov, The Gondoliers, and lots of major works by Walton and Vaughan Williams. His edition of Sir John in Love has just recently been published by OUP.

[teamsaint]

That is sad news. I don’t know much about him, but have a good number of his excellent recordings.

[richardfinegold]

Did he do a recording of 'Elgar' 3rd Symphony?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This is indeed sad news. I met him in 2018 at an Elgar Society meeting in York, shortly after the publication of the "Short Orchestral Works" volume of the Elgar Complete Edition, which David had edited. He was the speaker at the meeting, and several people were queueing up to to talk to him during the coffee break, but he made a beeline to talk to me instead. I'm not sure why he chose to speak to me, as we'd never met before , but I suspect he was given the nudge by John Norris, the General Secretary of the Elgar Edition, who knew I'd been directly and indirectly involved with the Edition since 1981. I felt very honoured. He was both charming an respectful.

[Pulcinella]

Did he do a recording of 'Elgar' 3rd Symphony?

Not according to the Presto site:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/works/66265--elgar-symphony-no-3/browse

The Naxos version (which is the one you might have expected) is Paul Daniel with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Naxos version (which is the one you might have expected) is Paul Daniel with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

The two conductors often covered similar ground, musically.

[cloughie]

My first encounter with DL-J on record was an LP on Philips Universo of rather neglcted works by the ‘mighty five’ - Mussorgsky’s original version of (St John’s) NBM, R-K: Sadko, Balakirev:King Lear Ov and Borodin’s Unfinished 3rd Symphony.

RIP David

[Bryn]

My first encounter with DL-J on record was an LP on Philips Universo of rather neglcted works by the ‘mighty five’ - Mussorgsky’s original version of (St John’s) NBM, R-K: Sadko, Balakirev:King Lear Ov and Borodin’s Unfinished 3rd Symphony.

RIP David

Snap!

[jonfan]

Very sad news indeed. Perhaps his greatest achievement was setting Opera North on its way with a solid foundation. Without that the organisation would not be the artistic success that it is today. He appointed David Greed as the youngest leader ever of a British orchestra at Opera North and by strange coincidence he retires from that post after the Parsifal run, again a record - being 44 years in post.

[richardfinegold]

The two conductors often covered similar ground, musically.

I know that I have DLJ recordings in my collection, but yes I am confusing him with Daniels.

[frankbridge]

Very sad news about DL.J. A fine conductor and editor, particularly his work on the "original" version of Mussorgsky's 'Boris Godunov' (which I've got, by the way, with a lot of Russian singers) on Philips 412 281-2PH. On a personal note, my brother was chosen to sing the Shepherd Boy song in Puccini's 'Tosca' third act as part of a bleeding chuncks thing at the Town Hall Birmingham with the CBSO in the early eighties and Lloyd Jones couldn't have been have been more genial conductor to work with.

RIP David