LLOYD-JONES, DAVID

David Lloyd–Jones began his professional career in 1959 on the music staff of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and soon became much in demand as a freelance conductor for orchestral and choral concerts, opera, BBC broadcasts and TV studio opera productions. He has appeared at the Royal Opera House (Boris Godunov with both Christoff and Ghaiurov), Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and the Wexford, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Leeds Festivals, and with the major British orchestras.

In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at English National Opera, and during his time there conducted an extensive repertory which included, in addition to all the standard operas, Die Meistersinger, Katya Kabanova, and the British stage premiere of Prokofiev’s War and Peace.

In 1978, at the invitation of the Arts Council of Great Britain, he founded a new full-time opera company, Opera North, with its own orchestra, the English Northern Philharmonia, of which he became Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. During his twelve seasons with the company he conducted fifty different new productions, including The Trojans, Prince Igor, The Midsummer Marriage (Tippett), and the British stage première of Richard Strauss’s Daphne. He also conducted numerous orchestral concerts, including festival appearances in France and Germany.

He has made many successful recordings of British and Russian music, and has an extensive career in the concert-hall and opera-house that takes him to leading musical centres throughout Central Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Australia, Japan, Canada and the Americas. His highly acclaimed cycle of Bax’s symphonies and tone poems for Naxos (The Gramophone Award) was completed in the autumn of 2003.

In 2007 he was given the rare distinction of being made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

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ALWYN: Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings / Elizabethan Dances / The Innumerable Dance	8.570144
ALWYN: Concerto grosso No. 1 / Pastoral Fantasia / 5 Preludes / Autumn Legend (Lloyd-Jones)	8.570704
ALWYN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3	8.557648
ALWYN: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 / Harp Concerto, "Lyra Angelica"	8.557647
ALWYN: Symphony No. 4 / Sinfonietta	8.557649
BAX: Symphonic Poems	8.557599
BAX: Symphony No. 1 / In the Faery Hills / Garden of Fand	8.553525
BAX: Symphony No. 2 / November Woods	8.554093
BAX: Symphony No. 3 / The Happy Forest	8.553608
BAX: Symphony No. 4 / Nympholept	8.555343
BAX: Symphony No. 5	8.554509
BAX: Symphony No. 6 / Into the Twilight	8.557144
BAX: Symphony No. 7 / Tintagel	8.557145
BERNERS: Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (Le)	8.225155
BERNERS: Sirenes (Les) / Cupid and Psyche	8.223780
BERNERS: Triumph of Neptune / L'uomo dai baffi	8.223711
BEST OF BRITISH	8.570573-74
BLISS: Cello Concerto / Music for Strings / Two Studies	8.553383
BLISS: Checkmate / Melee Fantasque	8.557641
BLISS: Colour Symphony (A) / Adam Zero	8.553460
BLISS: Piano Concerto / Piano Sonata / Concerto for 2 Pianos	8.557146
BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor / Les Illuminations / Nocturne	8.553834
CLASSICAL CHILL 1 - The Ultimate Collection	8.570171-72
CLASSICAL MEDITATION	8.570364-65
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 4: Classical Music for the Home	8.555360
CLASSICS FOR LOVERS	8.570013-14
DELIUS (THE BEST OF)	8.556837
DELIUS: Florida Suite / Over the Hills and Far Away	8.553535
DELIUS: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring	8.557143
DISCOVER THE CLASSICS, VOL. 3: The Concerto	8.554486-87
DYSON: Symphony in G Major / Concerto da Chiesa / At the Tabard Inn	8.557720
ELGAR (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552133-34
ELGAR: Falstaff / The Sanguine Fan	8.553879
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 1	8.554186
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 2	8.555068
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 3	8.555069
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 4	8.555070
FINZI (THE BEST OF)	8.556836
GARDNER: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 1 / Midsummer Ale Overture	8.570406
Gramophone Awards 2000	8.555303
GREENSLEEVES - English Pastoral Music	8.557535
HOLST: Beni Mora / Somerset Rhapsody / Hammersmith	8.553696
HOLST: Planets (The) / DELIUS: Over the Hills and Far Away	8.571036
HOLST: Planets (The) / The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18	8.555776
HOLST: Planets (The) / The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18	8.555776SACD
HOLST: The Planets	5.110004
HOLST: The Planets / Mystic Trumpeter	6.110004
Lark Ascending (The): Violin Showpieces	8.553509
LYON, D.: Horn Concerto / Fairytale Suite / Farnham Suite / Ballet for Orchestra / Fantasia on a Nursery Song	8.225039
MAGIC OF SPRING (THE)	8.557785
MOERAN: Symphony in G minor / Sinfonietta	8.555837
Music and Video Club Vol. 2 (UK Only)	8.555082
MYSTERY OF AUTUMN (THE)	8.557791
RAWSTHORNE: Cello Concerto / Oboe Concerto / Symphonic Studies	8.554763
RAWSTHORNE: Concerto for String Orchestra / Divertimento / Elegiac Rhapsody	8.553567
RAWSTHORNE: Symphonies Nos. 1-3	8.557480
SOMMER	8.503045
STANFORD, C.V.: Symphonies, Vol. 4 (No. 1, Clarinet Concerto) (Bournemouth Symphony, Lloyd-Jones)	8.570356
STANFORD: Symphonies, Vol. 1 (Nos. 4 and 7)	8.570285
STANFORD: Symphonies, Vol. 2 (Nos. 2 and 5)	8.570289
STANFORD: Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Nos. 3 and 6)	8.570355
STORY OF BRITISH CLASSICAL MUSIC (THE)	8.558193-94
SULLIVAN, A.: Pineapple Poll (arr. C. Mackerras) / Symphony in E major, "Irish"	8.570351
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSONS - Klassiska Favoriter	8.503135
THANKSGIVING - A Classic Thanksgiving: We Gather Together	8.555293
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Eternal)	8.572080
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (THE BEST OF)	8.556835
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Job / The Lark Ascending	8.553955
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Willow-Wood / The Sons of Light / Toward the Unknown Region	8.557798
WALTON: Quest / Wise Virgins (The)	8.555868
WITH LOVE TO YOU	8.557789