I don't usually think conductors talking is a great idea, but JG is clearly committed to Lloyd's music. It is a shame how musical fashions change and GL was unlucky in some ways to be a tonal composer in a post-war period of innovation and complex music; still the later recordings show how he was valued. It would be great to have a Lloyd Prom! Credit also to the ESO who make a great sound.
@EalingSymphonyOrchestra2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the performance. We are gradually working our way through all the symphonies. Next season will be No. 5.
@susieoconnor59316 ай бұрын
Mahler said the symphony must be like the world: it must embrace everything. The ESO gives us a great performance worthy of the composer's ambition
@EalingSymphonyOrchestra6 ай бұрын
glad you enjoyed it!
@songsmith31a9 ай бұрын
I discovered the music of George Lloyd when a fellow local resident - a composer himself - lent a copy of the composers' 4th Symphony on cassette tape in the 1990s and it became a fixture in my car for long journeys. How, I wondered, had I not known of this music previously, despite a long interest in classical music in the home. The more I heard subsequently convinced me that something badly wrong had been happening in the established world of classical music, not least when it seemed that it had taken an American record company to realise the composer's full potential on disc after the excellent LPs from the Philharmonia under Edward Downes (later "Sir") on the British record lable Lyrita...later given welcome transfers to CD. All credit to the ESO and John Gibbons for their commitment to these performances. Tjhey are deserving of the highest praise.
@EalingSymphonyOrchestra9 ай бұрын
Thank you - we are delighted to bring these overlooked works to our audiences.
@danielsimon8754 Жыл бұрын
How dare the musical establishment dissmiss George Lloyd's music. I am admirer of Lloyd's music and really surprised how tuneful it is ok maybe not all the time but at least he knows how to write a tune and not only that it the orchestration has real texture and colour. In 1990 he composed his last symphony No. 12 and it is one my favourite of all his symphonies. It is so refined and tuneful and dreamlike. The radio airwaves should play more of his music and there ought to be public performances so we can all appreciate the qualities this composer provides.
@songsmith31a9 ай бұрын
I was privileged to know the composer towards the end of his life here in London and agree wholeheartedly about the disgraceful neglect of his music, not least at the Proms...despite my courteous lobbying for its performance since the early 90s. Indeed, other than a cursory "nod" during the centenary of his birth, it is still not being played at that British music festival under the auspices of the BBC music management, with successive Proms "controllers" making unkept promises as to the future in the past three decades. I am a supporter of the ESO in the promotion of the music by that excellent ensemble under its music director, John Gibbons. They are fine advocates of this front rank British classical music.
@danielsimon87549 ай бұрын
Must have been a real honour to have met him. The thing that bugs me are that living composers are getting too much attention as the majority cant even write a decent tune and yet the orchestra are willling to play this sort of garbage. I can tell you by the look on the orchestral players faces they do not enjoy playing this sort of rubbish and who can blame them. I hope to composer and Overture in C. Minor and get it orchestrated and a symphony or 2 in key signatures. Take note living composers. I have no time for atonal composers. Even past composers like Arnold Bax and Igor Stravinsky wrote a lot unnaproachable stuff. I attended a concert recently and especially the Stravinsky was the worst piece of music (if you could call it that) I ever heard. It lasted 9 minutes and 9 minutes too long in my book.
@songsmith31a9 ай бұрын
@@danielsimon8754 Indeed, it was! In fact he was a most unassuming and congenial personality who had survived a horrendous wartime trauma when his Plymouth battle cruiser HMS Trinidad suffered a fluke strike by her own rogue torpedo on Arctic Convoy duty in WW2 and his case was given up by the medicos, leaving his Swiss-born wife Nancy to nurse him back to health. His 4th Symphony was his return to serious composing and, as they say, the rest is history. It was his added misfortune to find tonal (melodious) music out of fashion in the post-war classical music world under the likes of the BBC's William Glock, with his range of uplifting compositions pushed aside and ignored during the years that followed - until a late discovery of his music via the excellent commitment to his music by Peter Kermani of Albany Records (USA) saw his extensive CV recorded in its entirety. with his nephew William (Bill) Lloyd closely involved. There is a George Lloyd Society that exists to bring awareness of the composer and his uplifting compositions (check th beautiful "Symphonic Mass" especially) to wider public attention..
@andrewroberts81392 жыл бұрын
Choral delights by some choral delights, amirite?
@songsmith31a2 жыл бұрын
Bravo, ESO and soloist (conductor John Gibbons BEM) for keeping the banner flying and lifting the spirits.
@songsmith31a3 жыл бұрын
The "Best of British" - well done! Sir Edward would surely have applauded both the performance and the spirit behind it.
@EalingSymphonyOrchestra3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mark - glad you enjoyed it
@songsmith31a3 жыл бұрын
Onwards and upwards!
@geofflangstoncoach4 жыл бұрын
We were just down the road in Ealing but we could have been anywhere! Great performance and well executed thank you:)
@revjohnoliver4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, wonderful insight into the individual players' part in making a beuatifly whole. Excellent.
@annwilkinson29664 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed that very much thank you !
@maryannepapanicolaou84564 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! It was wonderful to be able to see each musician playing their instrument
@reenaedson14904 жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@hilarypotts12994 жыл бұрын
Interesting to spot identical twins
@janetrobinson18644 жыл бұрын
Triplets for percussion Les Lawrence
@jeancole59974 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this performance so much, thank you, I now live in Sydney, Australia. You have a world wide audience!
@janetrobinson18644 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Jean
@MarvelJon4 жыл бұрын
The players included alumnae now living in Netherlands and Singapore!
@janetrobinson18644 жыл бұрын
Thanks Netherlands and Singapore members. Brings a tear to the eye to see you play with us. Can you share as widely as possible?