The Evening Standard 7th November 1996

Bryars: Cello Concerto Farewell to Philosophy

Bald icon Bryars is already a cult figure in certain circles. His music represents the intelligent man’s New Age minimalism. His Cello Concerto Farewell to Philosophy is a beautiful woven and gently elated idyll. Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber sings its long lines with the same plaintive intensity that marked his extraordinary recording of the Delius Cello Concerto.

Alexander Waugh