Description

EDWARD LLOYD (LONDON, 7 MARCH, 1845 – WORTHING, 31 MARCH, 1927)

 

 

 

 

He had a distinguished career for some 30 years as a leading oratorio and concert singer and was considered by some to be the foremost tenor exponent of that genre during the last quarter of the 19th century. He retired in December 1900, a few months after singing the lead in the disastrous premier of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in Birmingham, at which the chorus and orchestra were under-rehearsed and Lloyd himself was not in good voice. But the Gramophone Company coaxed him into the recording studio in 1904 and eventually made some 34 titles up to 1908, and one more in 1911 after he emerged from retirement to sing at the coronation of King George V.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Bohemian Girl (Balfe) Then you’ll remember me 3-2083 5142b G&T, London 1904-04-08
2. Bonnie Mary of Argyle (Nelson) 3-2938 10081b G&T, London 1907-02
3. Come into the garden, Maud (Balfe) 02088 1008c G&T, London 1907-03
4. Elijah (Mendelssohn) If with all your hearts 3-2801 10312b HMV, London 1907-03
5. Elijah (Mendelssohn) Then shall the righteous 3-2802 10135b HMV, London 1907-03
6. I’ll sing thee songs of Araby (Clay) 02095 1973f Gramophone, London 1907-07
7. Judas Maccabaeus (Händel) Sound an alarm D822 993c Gramophone, London 1907-03
8. Martyr of Antioch (Sullivan) Come, Margherita, come 3-2855 10080b G&T, London 1907-02
9. Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) Prize song 02063 893f G&T, London 1905-07-25
10. Reine de Saba (Gounod) Lend me your aid 3-2086 5167b G&T, London 1904-04-12
11. Reine de Saba (Gounod) Lend me your aid 02062, 892f G&T, London 1905-07-25
12. Rejoice in the Lord (Homage Anthem) (Bridge) (w. Westminster Abbey Choir) 04792 z5024f Gramophone, London 1911-05-12
13. Sing me to sleep (Greene) 02090 1861f G&T, London 1907-05
14. The holy city (Adams) 3-2026 5011b G&T, London 1904-02-11
15. The song of the South (E Lloyd) 3-2870 6029e G&T, London 1907-05
16. Tom Bowling (Dibdin) 3-2025 5010b G&T, London 1904-02-11