Evening Songs Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lenehan ****
NAXOS 8.572902
‘Lloyd Webber also celebrates Delius’s 150th, and the 50th anniversary of the death of another of his passions, John Ireland, with Evening Songs, 21 highly recommended arrangements for cello and piano on a Naxos disc. Delius wrote 61 songs, few of them memorable, but Julian makes much of the best of them, with his attentive partner, the pianist John Lenehan. The Ireland items make more of an impact, especially his carol The Holy Boy, and Sea Fever, based on John Masefield’s poem.’
David Mellor
