Founding conductor of Opera North and a champion of Russian operas and British symphonies David Lloyd-Jones, who has died aged 87, was not only a conductor, but also a scholar, translator and a leading light in British musical life. Perhaps only his friend Charles Mackerras before him displayed as wide a range of expertise and sympathies, Lloyd-Jones's editions ranging from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. He made his greatest mark in 1978, when along with Lor...
Founding conductor of Opera North and a champion of Russian operas and British symphonies David Lloyd-Jones, who has died aged 87, was not only a conductor, but also a scholar, translator and a leading light in British musical life. Perhaps only his friend Charles Mackerras before him displayed as wide a range of expertise and sympathies, Lloyd-Jones's editions ranging from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. He made his greatest mark in 1978, when along with Lor...
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