Obra maestra absoluta.

This sounds like "Goodby Jimmy Goodby," a country song.

Absolutnie genialne, tak jak i dzieło Kopernika!

Very beautiful music; thank you for sharing this

I've heard all 7 of these pieces many times while growing up and this symphony has produced the best versions of all of them.

For decades i could only access about 5 of these symphonies. Thank the Muses for KZbin and chaannels like yours. Now i have some knowledge of every single one of Lloyd's works.

Good music. Thanks for posting.

I can grasp this composers 5th Symphony. I'm enjoying his musical language do i will look for more of his music on YT. Thanks for turning me on to this fine Symphony.

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The 1st movement is really beautiful and I'm enjoying the other movements also...I can't help wondering despite the excellent quality of the music that part of the reason he is not as highly regarded a symphonist as Vaughn-Williams and in general as a composer is not just the neo-romantic idiom, but perhaps the lack of a personal idiom...in listening to his music I am constantly reminded how generic it sounds...it could be film music by any number of composers imitating a kind of romanticism for a period film. The music is full of beloved gestural cliches. For instance, the way the finale starts off sounding a bit like Borodin. They are warm and familiar but don't distinguish themselves..say the way Vaughn-Williams modal music gives his work a distinctive sound.

One additional note: the choreographer for Pineapple Poll was John Cranko (1927-1973), an important figure at both the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.

J'ai vécu deux ans à Montréal, je m'intéresse aux arts, je me suis intéressé à tant de choses là-bas que j'ai rapportées dans ma valise... hélas je n'ai jamais entendu ce somptueux compositeur que je vais m'empresser de découvrir. Les Québécois produisent de ces petits génies qui vous époustouflent, qu'hélas eux-mêmes ne connaissent pas, le plus souvent. Cet admirable concerto est absolument ravissant...

El relato de ciencia ficción El Regreso de Raúl Lone 🥳

Qué magnificente ejecución orquestal, ideal para un filme espacial con narrativa de Mayas ancestrales y alienígenas amigos como el que escribí hace un par de años e intitulé El relato😎👍

Tchaikovsky used canons Corigilano used guns

The work has been realized in two editions. They both call to my mind the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Messiaen.

Dear old Dr H, as his students called him at Caius. Love his music. He died back in 1973, and was a most interesting character.

There is some authenticity in his music… It’s like a river: it flows but never repeats. The first time I had the chance to listen to his music, I was shocked as a frequent listener of classical music why I hadn’t know him.

Probbably the least-known today of the American master composers.

Great composer.

What a genius, to compose this at 14 just boggles my mind. He had so much potential, my heart breaks... If only he didn't succumb to his alcoholism, it is such a tragedy he died at 39. Who knows what sublime music he could've made if he were to overcome it.

DYSON.. Very proud to be a Dyson.. I'm a bassist...since 1982..

Beautiful music!!

Muchas Gracias por compartir esta obra maestra. Me impresionó el 2do. movimiento.

The Ealing (London) Symphony Orchestra under its musical director John Gibbons has undertaken to perform the complete cycle of Lloyd symphonies and their performance of the 4th received deserved acclaim. I look forward to the 5th and 11th with particular interest as these are two of my personal favourites among his extraordinary output of rwelve! I also recommend listeners to his beautiful "Symphonic Mass" - described by an esteemed "Gramophone" magazine critic as one of the finest pieces of Engish choral writing of the 20th century. Then there's the haunting cello concerto, surely the proper successor to the famous Elgar composition! RIP George...you deserved so much more from life and your amazing musical gift.

Do not know a word about this composer, but automatically warm to someone who frames their output in an honest diatonic form, rather contorting it into the guise of some affected modernity. Just to appear relevant. Good orchestrator as well

16 is everything a symphony should be. The composer put a lot of careful thought into constructing this magnificent work. He composed it over a very short period, and it all seemed to fall right for him.

I don't think four slow movements of such length are the way to go. In a symphony, no less.

What part has the shotgun sound?

Bravo una instrumentació I direcció magistrales bravo Brotons

Is anyone else reminded of Walton?

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André Mathieu, le prodige grandiose et triste.

~Very nice.

Varese Ameriques.

Ouvindo do Brasil, 38 anos, mais alguem aqui gosta de musica de verdade?

Sound like Russian or Scandinavian composers of 19 century . Great!

Cello Section: 1:11 (Bar 18 - Arco) 1:46 (Bar 27 - Andante Amoroso) 2:48 (Bar 73 - Arco) 4:00 (Bar 137 - Con Passione)

Not to be mistaken with George Floyd Symphony No 5

While Gorecki did not exactly "sell out" in the 3rd symphony, he needed more recognition at the time for various reasons and the so-called 'Polish School' of the time was rather used by British, western European and American aspiring composers as a stepping stone when they were postgrads. My long time friend, the late and much missed David Bedford, said several times that getting avant-garde "credentials" in exciting Italy with Petrassi, Nono and at Berio's classes was more or less the accepted thing to do then some learned their 'real' craft in Poland, especially with Gorecki as he was not only a genius composer but one of the greatest pedagogues ever, without the narrowness of N Boulanger of the previous generation. Lutoslawski and Penderecki had strong links with the UK but Gorecki held vital academic posts in Poland and saw himself as a a sort of custodian of Polish music dating back centuries, even when Poland officially did not exist twice in the 19th and 20th centuries. In other words he was a very busy man of great integrity. His plainly avant garde works always had his signature style and were regarded as 'exercises' or examples for education as much as stand alone works. In this way he avoided most of the excesses of composers of the time expressed in manifestos which later caused embarrassment [e.g. Boulez] and sometimes in works which were more like "happenings" and not integrated musical compositions. The 3rd symphony was balanced and about maternal sorrow but because one of the texts was from a Nazi death camp (actually a quotation from a written text), there was a fixation on that movement and the actual shape of the work was overlooked. True, the major keys wash of harmonies and deft orchestration had enormous appeal but also had the effect of overshadowing Gorecki's other major pieces. Symphony #2 retains the edginess of the composer's moderate avant garde harmonies but by the time of its composition the modal/tonal music out of the Baltic and Finland was developing and Gorecki absorbed aspects of this in probably his greatest work. The extra-musical 'subject' is the context of the rather dangerous ideas of Copernicus (proofs followed in Italy with Bruno and Galileo after Brahe and Kepler) thus the 1st movement is underpinned by menace and danger. Some critics ascribed this to Soviet repression and scored own goals. The composer had a bigger vision that that and quietly said so. The second movement is a musical depiction of the writings and drawings of Copernicus with a strange remoteness which I like to think is a nod to how long it took for the clergyman/polymath's revolutionary ideas to be read by academics and the church. By all accounts his low profile lifestyle as a quite high level administrator probably contributed to this as he had no financial need to sell books and would have known from his time in Italian universities that younger men would eventually catch up with him. Gorecki's quasi depiction of the Prussian-Polish polymath is therefore truthful but informed by the impact of his ideas. The work is very Polish, as was Copernicus.

I really love the violin solos in this work. Sad and beautiful.

A forgotten masterpiece.

I remember hearing the world premiere performance at the Proms on the radio. My Dad was initially very impressed with the quotation from the opening of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio - but his mood swiftly darkened as the movement progressed! I, on the other hand, became increasingly excited at Rouders’ handling of orchestral sonorities, harmonic textures and thematic development… and then the slow movement hit me like a sledgehammer with its feeling of suspended tension… By the end of the scherzo and the finale, with its desolate ending, I knew I’d listened to a modern MASTERPIECE.

That opening! WOW!!!

Many thanks for posting this excellent work. Muchas gracias para esta sinfonía excelentisima!

A masterpiece - sadly very rarely performed live. I suspect that the title of the piece puts orchestra's off playing it. It should'nt as the music is wonderfully English & we should be proud to play it in public. A stunning recording by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Not everything Walton wrote was great. But when Walton was on his game he is legitimately writing some of the best music of the 20th century. The Prologue and the two foxtrots are such a game day

È un capolavoro assoluto. L ultima parte con il lungo pedale dell orchestra a fasce sonore è impressionante per la sensazione di trovarsi nell infinito dello spazio del globo!!!

Beautyfull

Get the fuck outta here, William Walton!!