Recommended Recordings - Reprinted from BBC Music Magazine In recent years, Lloyd has been well served by record companies, particularly Albany Records, which has recorded all his piano concertos and all the symphonies. The following may be useful for those trying Lloyd's music for the first time: SYMPHONY NO. 4 Albany SO/Lloyd Albany TROY498 Lloyd's attempt to come to terms with his wartime experiences SYMPHONY NO. 11 Albany SO/Lloyd Albany TROY060 Experimenting with a wider range of orchestration VIOLIN SONATA; LAMENT, AIR AND DANCE Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano) Albany TROY029 The only currently available disc of Lloyd's chamber music SYMPHONY NO. 7 BBC Philharmonic/Lloyd Albany TROY057 The best of Lloyd, controlled, dark in spirit, heroic in execution and beautiful PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4 Kathryn Stott (piano) LSO/Lloyd Albany AR004 This concerto ideally complements the symphonies recommended here in demonstrating Lloyd's range of expression REQUIEM and PSALM 130 The Exon Singers conducted by Matthew Owens, with Stephen Wallace, (counter-tenor). Albany TROY450 Written in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, this was the composer's final work and represents a conscious leave- taking, 'under sentence of mortality' and with full realisation that it could only be completed if the music was pared down to small chorus and organ. This disc will be lovingly appreciated by any admirer of the vocal music of Faure, Rutter or Holst. A lovely remembrance of a warm-hearted composer who wrote against the spirit of the times and whose music finally met success. His was a dazzling creativity. Rob Barnett