Author Archives: Julian Lloyd Webber

Apr 252017

Shostakovich Cello Concerto no1

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Birmingham Post March 2nd 2012 Review: Orchestra Of The Swan, at Birmingham Town Hall ***** The Orchestra of the Swan has always been a sparky band, full of genuine pleasure in its music-making and creating, merely through its body-language, an amazing rapport with audiences wherever it performs. But last Wednesday it seemed to click even […]

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Apr 252017

Cyril Scott Pastoral and Reel

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Penguin CD Guide 2001 English Idyll ‘English idyll’ (with ASMF, Neville Marriner): VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Romanza. ELGAR: Romance in D min.. Op. 62; Une idylle, Op. 4/1. Discs: 2 Pieces for cello and chamber orchestra. GRAINGER: Youthful rapture; Brigg Fair (arrangement). DYSON: Fantasy. IRELAND: The holy boy. WALFORD DAVIES: Solemn melody. Holst: Invocation, Op. 19/2. Cyril […]

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Apr 252017

Schumann Cello Concerto

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The Guardian 2nd June 1984 Schumann Cello Concerto, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London English Chamber Orchestra/Stephen Barlow “Julian Lloyd Webber took an unusually leisurely view of Schumann’s Cello Concerto…..it was good to hear the elaborate passages as real music, not scrambled through. The slow movement once or twice trembled on the edge of sentimentality but this […]

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Apr 252017

Saint Saens Cello Concerto no1

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The Mail on Sunday 15th April 2001 Julian Lloyd Webber plays Saint-Saens Cello Concerto For he’s a jolly good cello… David Mellor Julian Lloyd Webber was 50 yesterday, a fitting moment to pay tribute to an outstanding artist and one of music’s nicest and most approachable of men. He recognises no musical barriers and effortlessly […]

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Apr 252017

Rodrigo Concierto Como Un Divertimento

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Musical Opinion April 2010 Romantic Cello Concertos CD JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER: ROMANTIC CELLO CONCERTOS Rodrigo: Concierto como un divertimento; Delius: Concerto for cello and orchestra+; Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor Julian Lloyd Webber, cello; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; +Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley, conductor Sony Music 88697570022 1 hour 17 minutes This welcome […]

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Apr 252017

Rawsthorne Cello Sonata

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The Financial Times 15th December 1987 Julian Lloyd Webber’s afternoon recital at the Wigmore Hall on Sunday, with pianist Peter Pettinger, brought the first performance of Malcolm Arnold’s Fantasy for solo cello, along with sonatas by Beethoven and Debussy and some other English items. Frank Bridge’s Scherzetto for cello and piano was played, and his […]

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Apr 252017

Rachmaninov Cello Sonata

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Bachtrack.com 19th March 2012 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata Julian Lloyd Webber Pays Tribute to Cello Greats in Cornwall Julian Lloyd Webber with Pam Chowhan Hall for Cornwall, Truro It is inevitable that one of the most beloved of orchestral instruments, the cello, will entice a diverse crowd of enthusiastic concertgoers – and that even in the […]

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Apr 252017

Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante

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The Observer June 1990 “This is a very strong disc indeed. With gritty piano playing from John McCabe, Lloyd Webber explores the early, pre-Rostropovich cello writing of Shostakovich and Prokofiev (whose Ballade is splendidly intense), and adds the Britten Sonata in C of 1961. The cello playing is bold and sustained.” Nicholas Kenyon Diapason October […]

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Apr 252017

Prokofiev Ballade

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Diapason October 1998 Sonate pour violoncelle et piano. SERGE PROKOFIEV: Ballade op. 15. DIMITRI CHOSTAKOVITCH: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano. Julian Lloyd Webber (violoncelle), John McCabe (piano). Philips 422 345-2 (CD : 148 F). 1988. Minutage: 57’11”. Un magnifique rédial de musique de notre temps, faisant se rencontrer Chostakoviich et Britien, avant qu’une dernière amitié […]

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Apr 252017

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf

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The Dundee Courier 14th April 2009 Perth Concert Youth Orchestra in fine form By even the most exalted standards the performance by the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra in Perth Concert Hall yesterday was first class in all departments. They began with the adagio from Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus. Immediately, the confidence of the violins struck one, then […]

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