Throughout there is intriguing use of hushed echo effects and flutter-tonguing, while the finale picks up the tempo to achieve a rather abrupt ‘Ta Da!’ positive conclusion…

Stephen Farr is a most committed advocate for this music, apparently making light of the formidable technical difficulties. Perhaps because Grier is also a virtuoso keyboard player, he feels no necessity to make any concessions to human frailty…

The disc gets off to a tremendous start with the pounding Ds of the Sinfonia da Requiem’s Lacrymosa leading into the heart wrenching melody…

It is an extraordinary journey to hear the whole of George Lloyd’s symphonies over a single period of time, a psychodrama if ever there was one…