The Times November 1981
Haydn Cello Concerto in D
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The ‘Haydn’ was a cello concerto. But this was no true novelty, just the resurrection of a feeble piece long known and long rejected from the Haydn canon (the misleading programme note notwithstanding). Some think it the work of the obscure G.B. Costanzi. Never mind: It allowed us to hear the remarkable artistry of Julian Lloyd Webber whose virile tone and perceptive phrasing can animate even the dullest series of sequences and whose sure technique can justify a very naughty cadenza.
Stanley Sadie
