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Apr 262017

60th Birthday Concert

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Strad Magazine July edition 2011 60th Birthday Concert ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 14 APRIL 2011 Julian Lloyd Webber attracted an A-list cast of musical friends to celebrate his 60th birthday with him. As a cellist he has always been equally at home in traditional repertoire and popular music – he was famously featured in the […]

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Apr 262017

Cradle Song

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Gramophone January 1996 Cradle Song Julian Lloyd Webber (vc); JohnLenehan, Pam Chowhan, Richard Rodney Bennett (pfs). Philips © CD 442 426-2PH (57 minutes: DDD). This album provides a companion to Julian Lloyd Webber’s much admired “Cello Song” a couple of years ago (10/93), and once again he has skilfully managed to choose a sequence of […]

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Apr 262017

Cello Song

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Gramophone Good CD Guide 1999 Cello Song Julian Lloyd Webber (vc); John Lenehan (pf). Philips 434 917-2PH As the title of this disc implies, all the pieces contained therein are rather in the same slowish-paced, lyrical vein, but their sequence has been cleverly chosen so that there is still plenty of variety to keep the […]

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Apr 262017

Cello Moods

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Classic CD July 1999 Cello Moods review Cello Moods This ripe-toned assemblage of cello miscellanea celebrates Julian Lloyd Webber’s 15-year association with Philips Classics. Throughout this period, he’s made world-premiere recordings of over 50 works, and there are surprises amongst more familiar and populist fare here, too. The eloquent Rheinberger Cantilena (from Organ Sonata No. […]

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Apr 262017

Celebration

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Music Web 2nd April 2002 Celebration by Julian Lloyd Webber CELEBRATION – FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF THE CELLIST, JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER Works for Cello and Orchestra CD1 Joaquín RODRIGO Concierto como un Divertimento Heitor VILLA-LOBOS Bachoianas Brasileiras No. 5 – aria Edouard LALO Cello Concerto David POPPER Gavotte No. 2 Camille SAINT-SAËNS Softly Awakes My Heart […]

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Apr 262017

A Tale of Two Cellos

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Nottingham Post March 2nd 2014 A Tale of Two Cellos Review: Julian & Jiaxin Lloyd Webber – A Tale of Two Cellos, Nottingham Albert Hall A Tale of Two Cellos The name Lloyd Webber will always generate interest. Music runs in the family for Julian who is the second son of the composer William Lloyd […]

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Apr 262017

And the Bridge is Love

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Music Web June 2015 And the Bridge is Love – English Music for Strings This CD represents a first and a last. It is Julian Lloyd Webber’s first disc as a conductor but, sadly, it is also his last as a solo cellist because he has now had to end his distinguished career as a […]

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Apr 252017

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Turkish Daily News 27th June 2007 Classic brilliance resonates in ancient walls Istanbul Concert Review Music gently winds through the corridors of the ancient Byzantine structure Hagia Eirini, at the concert, Festival Meetings II, performed by an acclaimed cellist, cello quartet and pianist As four cellists raise their bows in the air and strike the […]

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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

d’Indy Lied for cello and orchestra

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The Daily Telegraph 22nd March 1991 CLASSICAL Saint-Saens:Cello Concerto; Allegro appassionato. Honegger Cello Concerto. Faure:Elegie. D’indy: Lied. Honegger Julian Lloyd Webber/ English Chamber Orchestra. Yan Pascal Tortelier (Philips 432084-2) Julian Lloyd Webber’s bold start to Saint-Saens’s A minor Cello Concerto similarly finds the essence of urgency in the music right away, going on to develop […]

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