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Category: Reviews

  • Faure Elegy

    The Washington Post 18th January 1994

    Julian Lloyd Webber

    With more than 30 recordings to his credit, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber need never fear about living in his brother Andrew’s shadow. Saturday night’s performance showed why this should be so. Lloyd Webber brought a fine touch and a keen intellect to all that he and pianist John Lenehan played. The sweetest moments came in the Debussy Sonata Prologue and in the gentle unfolding of Faure’s Elegie. All were crafted with the greatest of care and dispatched with exact intonation. Mark Carrington

  • Faure Elegy

    SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN 18th February 1993

    Kraft aus der Synthese von Intellekt und Musikantentum

    Salzburg: Der Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber Im Mozarteum. Gabriel Faures Elegie – Julian Lloyd Webber ist ein erzmusikantischer Cellist. Er hat diesem Stück nichts von seinem sentimentalen melodischen Reiz benommen. Aber er ist auch vor allem ein hochintelligenter Cellist. Er hält Faures Elegie eher im Mezzoforte und zeitweise in ganz innigen Piano-Tönen. Reinhard Kriegetum

  • Faure Elegy

    Fono Forum September 1991

    Julian Lloyd Webber

    Julian Lloyd Webber spielt hier ein sinnvoll aufeinander bezogenes Programm ein. Sein Ton besitzt nichts Sonores oder Schweres. Sein Cellospiel prägt eine weiche, aber dabei gesanglich-flexible Timbrierung. Sein interpretatorischer Ansatz kommt besonders dem wunderbaren Cello-konzert von Honegger zugute. Giselher Schubert

  • Faure Elegy

    The Daily Telegraph 22nd March 1991

    CLASSICAL

    Julian Lloyd Webber’s bold start to Saint-Saens’s A minor Cello Concerto finds the essence of urgency in the music right away, going on to develop a mature bloom of sound. He plays the perennial Faure Elegie with an endearing freshness of grief-laden emotion, tastefully judged, unintrusive in its expression. Honegger’s Cello Concerto is a welcome and uncommon inclusion. Lloyd Webber is a persuasive, probing protagonist. Geoffrey Norris

  • Faure Elegy

    The Scotsman 28th August 2012

    Classical review: National Youth Orchestra of Iraq

    THE National Youth Orchestra of Iraq’s UK debut was a triumph. Despite adverse conditions, the orchestra proved its versatility in this varied programme. Music director and conductor Paul MacAlindin has done a phenomenal job of nurturing an all-embracing musicianship. Together with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber they gave an exquisite and moving account of Faure’s Elegie. The NYOI demonstrated how culture wins over politics every time. By SUSAN NICKALLS

  • Dvorak Cello Concerto

    The Times March 6th 2008

    Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Wit at Cadogan Hall

    Lloyd-Webber psyched himself up for a wild and woody entry. He ensured that the first movement’s great song was elegantly, lightly breathed, as was his loose-limbed playing in the slow movement, and his admirably fluid accompaniment to the orchestra’s winsome woodwind serenading.

    Hilary Finch

  • Dvorak Cello Concerto

    The Mail on Sunday 15th April 2001

    For he’s a jolly good cello…

    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 straddles the divide between popular and serious that cuts off so many others from their audience. His next album will be arrangements of his brother’s most memorable melodies. The Elgar Cello Concerto is an award-winning piece, while Softly Awake My Heart from Samson And Delilah sits comfortably alongside the world premiere recording of the Cello Concerto the great Rodrigo himself wrote for Julian in 1982. His outstanding Elgar, with Yehudi Menuhin conducting, is coupled with a particularly fine account of the Dvorak Concerto recorded in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic. DAVID MELLOR

  • Dvorak Cello Concerto

    Gramophone April 1999

    Favourite Cello Concertos

    A first-class package in every way. Julian Lloyd Webber has a firm, richly coloured and full-focused tone; moreover it records well. His lyrical warmth projects tellingly over the entire range. His account of the great Dvorak concerto is full of passionate feeling, with a tender Adagio, and Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic give him thoroughly persuasive backing. His performance of the Elgar concerto has the huge advantage of Lord Menuhin as his partner. Lloyd Webber proved that the original uncut version of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations is superior to the truncated version used in most other recordings. Among the encores the lovely Traumerei stands out for its freely improvisational feeling. Ivan March

  • Dvorak Cello Concerto

    Daily Mail 26th March 1999

    FAVOURITE CELLO CONCERTOS

    I PREFER Julian Lloyd Webber’s Elgar Cello Concerto to Jacqueline Du Pre’s. And you can now get his noble performance without having Menuhin’s anaemic Enigma Variations, because it has been re-issued in a set of cello concertos. I have a soft spot for JLW’s Dvorak Concerto, too, and it is also now in better company than on its original CD. The other main works here are Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and Saint-Saens’s A minor Concerto. The package also includes shorter works including Faure’s Elegie and Saint-Saens’s Allegro Appassionato and The Swan. Tully Potter

  • Dvorak Cello Concerto

    The Edmonton Journal 9th November 1991

    Master cellist shows lyrical intensity

    Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber took the stage Friday night and thrilled the audience with his fervent playing and beautiful tone. The featured soloist with the Edmonton Symphony, Lloyd Webber gave an intense performance of one of the crown jewels of the cello repertoire – the Dvorak concerto. The slow second movement, with its heart-melting lyricism, showed Lloyd Webber at his best; playing with a singing, centred tone with the warmth of burnished gold. The cadenza was song-ful rather than virtuosic and displayed the cellist’s musicianship in his sensitive phrasing. Guest conductor Stuart Bedford elicited a warm, rich sound from the orchestra that supported the soloist without overwhelming him.