Music Web-London Philharmonic April 2002
Daily Mail 6th July 2001
Julian Lloyd Webber: Celebration
Rodrigo, Lalo and Delius Cello Concertos
CELEBRATION
(RCA 74321-8411 2-2)
THIS two-disc set brings back some of Julian Lloyd Webber’s most valuable recordings. Among them are Rodrigo’s Concierto Como Un Divertimento, written for JLW, and Holst’s short but powerful Invocation. The two longest works are the Dellus Concerto, which JLW plays as well as anyone, and the popular Concerto in D minor by Lalo. For the cellist’s 50th birthday Philips also has an important reissue, a coupling of the Elgar and Walton Concertos (464 700-2).
The Elgar is perhaps the finest available recording and it is good to have it split from Menuhin’s unmemorable Enigma Variations.
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TULLY POTTER
