Lloyd: A Litany & A Symphonic Mass

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Label
Lyrita
Release Date
May 3, 2024
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      George Lloyd
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 03, 2024
    • UPC
      5020926241924
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SRCD2419
    • LABEL
      Lyrita
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Brighton Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    2. Gloria

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Brighton Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    3. Credo

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Brighton Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    4. Offertorium

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    5. Sanctus and Benedictus

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Brighton Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    6. Agnus Dei

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Brighton Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    7. Part 1: Father of Heaven

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy White

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    8. Part 2: O Holy Ghost

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Janice Watson, Jeremy White

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    9. Part 3: For that fair blessed mother-maid

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Janice Watson, Jeremy White

      Conductor: George Lloyd

    10. Part 4: From being anxious, or secure

      Composer: George Lloyd

      Ensemble: Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Janice Watson, Jeremy White

      Conductor: George Lloyd


Conceived on a grand scale, Lloyd’s late choral works build fruitfully upon his previous experience in other genres. They share with his operas an innate lyricism, natural affinity with the human voice, and feeling for the long line, while their structural balance, intensive working out of motifs, and rich orchestral palette owe a significant debt to his prolific symphonic output. Chris de Souza, writing in The Independent in 1998, described the Brighton Festival commission of A Symphonic Mass as ‘perhaps the climax’ of Lloyd’s ‘astonishing career’. In his review of the original release of the present recording, Ivan March was moved to describe the Mass as ‘one of the finest pieces of English choral writing of the twentieth century’.