The Sunday Telegraph 1st February 1998
THE SUNDAY REVIEW – Critics’ Choice
Grieg/Delius Cello Sonatas etc.
Lloyd Webber/ Forsberg (Philips 454 458-2).
An intelligent pairing, since Delius loved Grieg’s music. Both composers’ cello sonatas, played with passionate advocacy by Julian Lloyd Webber and Bengt Forsberg, are untypical in that Grieg’s — a glorious work — is more tempestuous than one would expect from this lyricist and Delius’s is structurally taut. Yet both are typical in their richness of material.
Michael Kennedy
