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Apr 252017

Glazunov Melodie

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Penguin Guide to CDs Yearbook 2000/1 Cello Moods Review Glazunov ‘Melodie’ ‘Cello moods’(with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd): FRANCK: Panis angelicus. ELGAR: Chanson de matin; Salut d’amour. Julian LLOYD WEBBER: Jackie’s song. DEBUSSY: Reverie. BACH: Suite No 3: Air. MASSENET: Thals: Meditation. CACCINI: Ave Maria. B0RODIN: Nocturne. GLAZUNOV: Mélodie, Op. 20/1. CHOPIN: Nocturne, Op. 9/2. […]

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Apr 252017

Glass Cello Concerto

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Penguin CD Guide 2009 Philip Glass Cello Concerto GLASS, Philip (bon 1937) (I) Cello Concerto; (ii) Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra Dunvagen Music (ASCAP) 0014. (i)Julian Lloyd Webber; (ii) Glennie, Hass; RLPO, Schwarz Glass’s Cello Concerto opens darkly and atmospherically; but the work’s warmly lyrical strain is immediately apparent, and Glass’s writing is […]

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Apr 252017

Fricker Cello Sonata

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Musical Times September 1977 Modern Cello Works – Fricker Cello Sonata Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John McCabe (piano). L’Oiseau-Lyre DSLO18 Fricker: Cello Sonata, Op. 28. Berkeley: Duo. McCabe: Partita for solo cello. Dalby: Variations. This is a happy grouping of four representative works by notable British composers. Lennox Berkeley the doyen makes the briefest contribution, […]

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Apr 252017

Faure Elegy

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The Scotsman 28th August 2012 Classical review: National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Star rating: * * * * THE National Youth Orchestra of Iraq’s UK debut was a triumph on numerous levels, not least the fact of the concert itself, as playing together is something these talented young musicians cannot do in […]

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Apr 252017

Elgar Romance

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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

Elgar Cello Concerto

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The Siren 8th October 2012 Swansea Festival, BBC National Orchestra of Wales The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes, began the celebrations with typically Jonesian jagged swathes of complex sentimentality, performing his Eleventh Symphony with exactitude and emotion. A waif-like flute solo played ethereally by Matthew Featherstone offered a moment of […]

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Apr 252017

Dvorak Cello Concerto

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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.” […]

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Apr 252017

Delius Romance

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Classicalsource.com September 24, 2012 Julian Lloyd Webber & John Lenehan at Wigmore Hall – Ireland and Delius Ireland -Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano Delius – Caprice and Elegy, Romance, Sonata for Cello and Piano The anniversaries of two composers and the cellist connecting them were marked in this BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime […]

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Apr 252017

Delius Cello Sonata

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classicalsource.com – March 2013 Barnes Music Festival – William Lloyd Webber, Delius & John Ireland – Artists include Verter Trio, Julian Lloyd Webber & Min-Jin Kym The Barnes Music Festival prospectus advertised this concert as being “an enchanting programme of f amiliar classics alongside lesser known works including Delius’s Cello Concerto (sic)…”, and it indicated […]

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Apr 252017

Delius Caprice and Elegy

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Classicalsource.com September 24, 2012 Julian Lloyd Webber & John Lenehan at Wigmore Hall – Ireland and Delius Ireland -Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano Delius – Caprice and Elegy, Romance, Sonata for Cello and Piano The anniversaries of two composers and the cellist connecting them were marked in this BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime […]

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