LLOYD: Symphony No. 5. BBC Philharmonic, conducted by George Lloyd. TROY 019-2 (compact disc).
In this work, a post-Romantic, 2Oth-Century British composer conveys the depression of the European wasteland and his own soul in the period of the Second World War, often with the sound of Rachmaninoff, occasionally with bright flashes--as in the Rondo of this symphony--of Mendelssohn.
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