Matthew Nelson - Charles Harford Lloyd: Chamber Music for Clarinet - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Charles Harford Lloyd (1849-1919) - organist of Gloucester Cathedral and the Chapel Royal, Oxford theologian and concert-organiser, music master at Eton and much more - was one of the most distinguished musicians of Victorian England. The largest part of his output is vocal music, mostly for the church; he composed only a handful of chamber works, often involving the clarinet. He wrote in a light Romantic idiom, where the influence of Brahms is often audible, as with his close friend, Hubert Parry. Lloyd knew how to make the clarinet sing, with one lovely, long-limbed melody after another. This first-ever album of his chamber music rescues a long-forgotten figure from the shadows. Album Tracks 1. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in B flat major~I. Allegro con brio 2. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in B flat major~II. Andante espressivo 3. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in B flat major~III. Allegro moderato 4. Duo Concertante 5. Annette 6. Suite in the Old Style~I. Prelude 7. Suite in the Old Style~II. allemande 8. Suite in the Old Style~III. Minuet 9. Suite in the Old Style~IV. Sarabande 10. Suite in the Old Style~V. Gigue 11. Départ 12. Three Little Pieces~I. Romance 13. Three Little Pieces~II. A Simple Melody 14. Three Little Pieces~III. Valse Mignonne 15. Idyll 16. 'Bon Voyage!'