page_title: Edward Lloyd (tenor)
section_title: Handel Festivals and the mantle of Reeves
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Lloyd (tenor) / Handel Festivals and the mantle of Reeves
caption_attribution_description: English: Edward Lloyd (7 March 1845 – 31 March 1927) was a British tenor.
context_page_description: Edward Lloyd was a British tenor singer who excelled in concert and oratorio performance, and was recognised as a legitimate successor of John Sims Reeves as the foremost tenor exponent of that genre during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
context_section_description: In 1877, when Sims Reeves withdrew from his engagement for the Handel Triennial Festival at the Crystal Palace over the controversy concerning Concert pitch, Lloyd was engaged instead. He had performed there in Acis and Galatea in 1874, and participated in every subsequent festival there until his retirement in 1900.  In these performances before huge audiences in that immense space, his beautiful, resonant and clarion voice carried wonderfully.  These festivals might include full performances of Messiah, Israel in Egypt and Judas Maccabaeus on successive nights, each being exceptionally demanding for the tenor (but extremely rewarding for one equal to the task).  The earliest 'live' recording of a British concert was made at the Crystal Palace 1888 Festival performance of Israel in Egypt, in which Lloyd was the principal tenor, though unfortunately the selections on the surviving three wax cylinder records do not include any of his actual singing.
caption: Edward Lloyd, 1899
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