David Lloyd-Jones

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David Matthias Lloyd-Jones (born 19 November 1934) is a British conductor who has specialised in British and Russian music. He is also an editor and translator, especially of Russian operas. Biography Lloyd-Jones was born in London. Before World War II, his family was evacuated and moved to West Wales to live on a farm. There he had no contact with classical music until the age of nine, when he studied Mozart in school. On his 10th birthday, his father took him to his first orchestral concert, at the Royal Albert Hall, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He quickly developed a love of British music, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, and also of Russian music.[1] He later attended Magdalen College, Oxford. Early career and Sadlers Wells Lloyd-Jones began his career in 1959 as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He made his professional conducting debut in 1961 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted the New Opera Company from 1961 to 1964. He continued to build his reputation as a freelance conductor for orchestral and choral concerts. He also conducted for BBC broadcasts and TV studio opera productions.[2] In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at Sadlers Wells Opera (now English National Opera), where he conducted a wide repertory which included the first British staging of War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev. Opera North Lloyd-Jones founded and became the first Music Director of Opera North in 1978, forming its orchest

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English String Miniatures, Vol. 4

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Vaughan Williams: Job / The Lark Ascending

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Classical for Focus

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Delius: On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring

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Classical Focus

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BAX: Symphony No. 6 / Into the Twilight

English String Miniatures

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Swan Lake [Matthew Bourne version]

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Alwyn: Concerti Grossi Nos. 2 & 3

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Holst: The Planets; The Mystic Trumpeter; Colin Matthews: Pluto

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Vaughan Williams (The Best Of)

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Holst: Planets (The) / The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18

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