Julian Lloyd Webber
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Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".
and his wife Jean Johnstone (a piano teacher). He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
. Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music
in London
and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier
in Geneva in 1973. He made his professional debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
, London in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss
.
, Lorin Maazel
, Neville Marriner
, Georg Solti
and Esa-Pekka Salonen
as well as Stéphane Grappelli
, Elton John
and Cleo Laine
.
Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award
winning Elgar
Cello Concerto
conducted by Yehudi Menuhin
(chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine
), the Dvořák
Cello Concerto
with Václav Neumann
and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky
's Rococo Variations
with the London Symphony Orchestra
under Maxim Shostakovich
and a coupling of Britten
's Cello Symphony and Walton
's Cello Concerto
with Sir Neville Marriner
and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as "beyond any rival". He has also recorded several CDs of short pieces for Universal Classics including Made in England
, Cello Moods
, Cradle Song
and English Idyll
: "It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday or tomorrow" - Gramophone.
Lloyd Webber has given more than 50 works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold
(Fantasy for Cello, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989), Joaquín Rodrigo
(Concierto como un divertimento
, 1982) James MacMillan (Cello Sonata No. 2, 2001), and Philip Glass
(Cello Concerto, 2001). Recent concert performances have included four further works composed for Julian - Michael Nyman
's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on BBC
Television, Gavin Bryars
's Concerto in Suntory Hall
, Tokyo, Philip Glass
's Cello Concerto
at the Beijing International Festival and Eric Whitacre
's The River Cam at the Southbank Centre. His recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz
was released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2005.
Lloyd Webber's more recent recordings include Phantasia, which is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber
's The Phantom of the Opera
and features the violinist Sarah Chang
, The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber
(2011) and Evening Songs
(2012).
and Evelyn Glennie
in 2003. In 2008, the British Government invited Webber to be Chairman of its In Harmony
project which is based on the Venezuelan social programme El Sistema
. The government- commissioned Henley Review of Music Education (2011) reported that “there is no doubt that they (the In Harmony projects) have delivered life-changing experiences”.
He received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum
in 1998 and a Classic FM
Red Award for outstanding services to music in 2005. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music
in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from both the University of Hull
and Thames Valley University
.
In May 2001, he was granted the first busker's licence on the London Underground
.
In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult
, Lord Menuhin
(who conducted his Brit Award winning recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto) and Richard Hickox
.
He is also a Vice President of the Delius
Society and Patron of Music in Hospitals. He has been an ambasssador fot the Prince's Trust for more than twenty years.
In September 2009 he joined the Board of Governors of the Southbank Centre. He was the Foundling Museum
's Handel
Fellow for 2010. He is known to be a lifelong supporter of Leyton Orient football club.The composer Herbert Howells
was his Godfather.
, London) from his marriage to Zohra Mahmoud Ghazi, a great niece of the Afghan King Zahir Shah. He married fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng
in 2009. and they have one daughter, Jasmine Orienta, who was born on June 14, 2011.
Early life
Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd WebberWilliam Lloyd Webber
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber was an English organist and composer.-Life and career:Lloyd Webber was born in London...
and his wife Jean Johnstone (a piano teacher). He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
. Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier
Pierre Fournier
Pierre Fournier was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound....
in Geneva in 1973. He made his professional debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a music venue on the South Bank in London, United Kingdom that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall, which was built for the Festival...
, London in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...
.
Work
Lloyd Webber has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including Yehudi MenuhinYehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
, Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...
, Neville Marriner
Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner is an English conductor and violinist.-Biography:Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra, playing with the...
, Georg Solti
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
and Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...
as well as Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....
, Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
and Cleo Laine
Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE is a jazz singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and vocal range...
.
Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award
Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain" or "Britannia", but subsequently became a backronym for British Record Industry Trust...
winning Elgar
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, by which time his music had gone out of fashion with the concert-going public...
conducted by Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
(chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine
BBC music magazine
BBC Music Magazine is a magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC. Reflecting the broadcast output of BBC Radio 3, the magazine is devoted primarily to classical music, though with sections on jazz and world music. Each edition comes...
), the Dvořák
Antonín Dvorák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto (Dvorák)
The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, by Antonín Dvořák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.- Structure :...
with Václav Neumann
Václav Neumann
Václav Neumann was a Czech conductor, violinist and viola player.Neumann was born in Prague where he studied at the Prague Conservatory, with Josef Micka , and with Pavel Dědeček and Metod Doležil . He co-founded, and played 1st violin in, the Smetana Quartet, before holding conducting posts in...
and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
's Rococo Variations
Variations on a Rococo Theme
The Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for cello and orchestra was the closest Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello and orchestra. The style was inspired by Mozart, Tchaikovsky's role model, and makes it clear that Tchaikovsky admired the Classical style very...
with the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
under Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
and a coupling of Britten
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
's Cello Symphony and Walton
William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
's Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto (Walton)
Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto was written between February and October 1956, in Ischia, on a commission from the Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, to whom he dedicated it....
with Sir Neville Marriner
Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner is an English conductor and violinist.-Biography:Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra, playing with the...
and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as "beyond any rival". He has also recorded several CDs of short pieces for Universal Classics including Made in England
Made in England / Gentle Dreams (album)
Made in England / Gentle Dreams is a two CD set album released by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 2003.-CD1:# Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Girl from Ipanema# Julian Lloyd Webber: Kheira's Theme# Gershwin: Bess You Is My Woman Now# Secret Garden: Duo...
, Cello Moods
Cello Moods
Cello Moods is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and, principally, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1998 for Philips. It is a collection of classical pieces either originally written for or adapted for the cello and orchestral accompaniment...
, Cradle Song
Cradle Song (album)
Cradle Song is an album by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. In the U.S., the album was released under the title Lullaby.-Track listing:# Song for Baba by Julian Lloyd Webber # Träumerei by Robert Schumann# Wiegenlied by Franz Schubert...
and English Idyll
English Idyll (album)
English Idyll is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1994 for Philips.-Track listing:# Romanza from Tuba Concerto by Vaughan Williams English Idyll is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1994 for Philips.-Track listing:# Romanza from Tuba Concerto by Vaughan...
: "It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday or tomorrow" - Gramophone.
Lloyd Webber has given more than 50 works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
(Fantasy for Cello, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989), Joaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
(Concierto como un divertimento
Concierto como un divertimento
Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto como un divertimento, for cello and orchestra received its first performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on April 15, 1982. The performers were the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who had commissioned the concerto, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra...
, 1982) James MacMillan (Cello Sonata No. 2, 2001), and Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
(Cello Concerto, 2001). Recent concert performances have included four further works composed for Julian - Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Television, Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...
's Concerto in Suntory Hall
Suntory Hall
The Suntory Hall is a concert hall complex consisting of the "Main Hall" and the "Small Hall" located in the Ark Hills complex, near the U.S. Embassy and TV Asahi in the Akasaka district of northern Minato, a ward in Tokyo, Japan...
, Tokyo, Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
's Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto (Glass)
The Cello Concerto No. 1 was written by Philip Glass in 2001. It was one of the first concerti of the twenty-first century. The piece was commissioned by William and Rebecca Krueger, friends of the composer, for the 50th birthday of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. A typical performance takes 20-25...
at the Beijing International Festival and Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre is an American composer, conductor and lecturer. He is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation. In 2008, the all-Whitacre choral CD Cloudburst became an international best-seller, topping the classical charts and earning a Grammy nomination...
's The River Cam at the Southbank Centre. His recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...
was released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2005.
Lloyd Webber's more recent recordings include Phantasia, which is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
's The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
and features the violinist Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang is a Korean American violinist. Her debut came in 1989 with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Shortly thereafter, Chang was recognized as a child prodigy. She enrolled at Juilliard School to study music, graduating in 1999 and continuing university studies...
, The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber
The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber
-Track listing:Disc 1# "Cello Concerto 1st Movement" by Edward Elgar# "The Swan" by Saint-Saens# "Salut d’amour" by Edward Elgar# "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy# "Meditation from Thais" by Jules Massenet# "Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring" by Bach...
(2011) and Evening Songs
Evening Songs
Evening Songs is an album collection of arrangements for cello and piano of songs by Frederick Delius and John Ireland containing three world premiere recordings...
(2012).
Other
Lloyd Webber is also greatly involved in music education and formed the "Music Education Consortium" with James GalwayJames Galway
- External links : IMGArtists.com 15 September 2008. AllAboutJazz.com 5 August 2008.*...
and Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Glennie
Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...
in 2003. In 2008, the British Government invited Webber to be Chairman of its In Harmony
In Harmony (music)
In Harmony is a community development project aimed at using music to bring positive change to the lives of very young children in the most deprived areas of England, delivering benefits across the wider community...
project which is based on the Venezuelan social programme El Sistema
El Sistema
El Sistema is a publicly financed voluntary sector music education program in Venezuela, originally called Social Action for Music. Its official name is Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, , and sometimes translated to English as...
. The government- commissioned Henley Review of Music Education (2011) reported that “there is no doubt that they (the In Harmony projects) have delivered life-changing experiences”.
He received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
in 1998 and a Classic FM
Classic FM (UK)
Classic FM, one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations, broadcasts classical music in a popular and accessible style.-Overview:...
Red Award for outstanding services to music in 2005. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from both the University of Hull
University of Hull
The University of Hull, known informally as Hull University, is an English university, founded in 1927, located in Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire...
and Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University
The University of West London is a public university based in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in Ealing and Brentford, London, and Reading, Berkshire....
.
In May 2001, he was granted the first busker's licence on the London Underground
London Underground
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...
.
In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult
Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was...
, Lord Menuhin
Menuhin
Menuhin, Menuchin is the surname of:* Hephzibah Menuhin , American-Jewish concert pianist* Joel Ryce-Menuhin , Jungian psychologist* Moshe Menuhin , teacher and author, father of Yehudi, Hephzibah and Yaltah Menuhin...
(who conducted his Brit Award winning recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto) and Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox
Richard Sidney Hickox CBE was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.-Early life:Hickox was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family...
.
He is also a Vice President of the Delius
Delius
Delius is a surname. It may refer to:* Ernst von Delius - German racing car driver* Frederick Delius - English composer* Nicolaus Delius - German philologist* Tobias Delius Delius is a surname. It may refer to:* Ernst von Delius (1912–1937) - German racing car driver* Frederick Delius...
Society and Patron of Music in Hospitals. He has been an ambasssador fot the Prince's Trust for more than twenty years.
In September 2009 he joined the Board of Governors of the Southbank Centre. He was the Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum
The Foundling Museum in London tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children. The museum houses the nationally important Foundling Hospital Art Collection as well as the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, the world's greatest privately amassed collection of...
's Handel
HANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
Fellow for 2010. He is known to be a lifelong supporter of Leyton Orient football club.The composer Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...
was his Godfather.
Personal life
Lloyd Webber has one son, David (born 1992, HammersmithHammersmith
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
, London) from his marriage to Zohra Mahmoud Ghazi, a great niece of the Afghan King Zahir Shah. He married fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng
Jiaxin Cheng
-Career:Jiaxin graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China, in 1997. She was already giving performances with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra but left China for further studies in New Zealand where she received her Master's Degree at the University of Auckland in 2001.While in New Zealand...
in 2009. and they have one daughter, Jasmine Orienta, who was born on June 14, 2011.
Orchestral recordings
- Frank BridgeFrank BridgeFrank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
- Oration (1976) - Édouard LaloÉdouard LaloÉdouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...
- Cello Concerto (1982) - Frederick DeliusFrederick DeliusFrederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
- Cello Concerto (1982) - Joaquín RodrigoJoaquín RodrigoJoaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
- Concierto como un divertimentoConcierto como un divertimentoJoaquín Rodrigo's Concierto como un divertimento, for cello and orchestra received its first performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on April 15, 1982. The performers were the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who had commissioned the concerto, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra...
(1982) - Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
- Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (1983) - Edward ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
- Cello ConcertoCello Concerto (Elgar)Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, by which time his music had gone out of fashion with the concert-going public...
(1985) - Victor HerbertVictor HerbertVictor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
- Cello Concerto No. 2 (1986) - Arthur SullivanArthur SullivanSir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
- Cello Concerto (1986) - Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
- Cello ConcertoCello Concerto (Dvorák)The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, by Antonín Dvořák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.- Structure :...
(1988) - Arthur HoneggerArthur HoneggerArthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
- Cello Concerto (1990) - Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
- Cello Concerto No. 1Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 in 1872, when the composer was age 37. He wrote this work for the Belgian cellist, viola de gamba player and instrument maker Auguste Tolbecque. Tolbecque was part of a distinguished family of musicians closely associated...
(1990) - Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
- Variations on a Rococo ThemeVariations on a Rococo ThemeThe Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for cello and orchestra was the closest Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello and orchestra. The style was inspired by Mozart, Tchaikovsky's role model, and makes it clear that Tchaikovsky admired the Classical style very...
(1991) - Nikolai MyaskovskyNikolai MyaskovskyNikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...
- Cello Concerto (1991) - Gavin BryarsGavin BryarsRichard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...
- Cello Concerto (1994) - Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
- Cello Symphony (1995) - William WaltonWilliam WaltonSir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
- Cello ConcertoCello Concerto (Walton)Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto was written between February and October 1956, in Ischia, on a commission from the Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, to whom he dedicated it....
(1995) - Michael NymanMichael NymanMichael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
- Concerto for Cello, Saxophone and orchestra (1996) - Granville BantockGranville BantockSir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...
- Sapphic Poem (1999) - Philip GlassPhilip GlassPhilip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
- Cello Concerto (2003) - Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
- Phantasia for violin, cello and orchestra (2004) - Romantic Cello Concertos (2009)
Chamber recordings
- Peter Racine FrickerPeter Racine FrickerPeter Racine Fricker was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life....
- Cello Sonata (1976) - John IrelandJohn Ireland (composer)John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer.- Life :John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher and newspaper proprietor, was aged 70 at John's birth...
- Complete Piano Trios (1976) - Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
- Variations (1977) - Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
- Third Suite for Cello (1979) - Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
- Cello SonataCello Sonata (Debussy)The Cello Sonata is a late work by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was the first of a planned series of 'Six sonates pour divers instruments', however Debussy only completed two others, the sonata for violin and the sonata for flute, viola and harp. The sonata for cello and piano was written...
(1979) - John IrelandJohn IrelandJohn Ireland may refer to:* John Ireland , Anglican priest and philanthropist* John Ireland , American politician...
- Cello Sonata (1979) - Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
- Cello SonataCello Sonata (Rachmaninoff)Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, a sonata for cello and piano, was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. As typical of sonatas in the Romantic period, it has four movements. Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments...
(1979) - Malcolm ArnoldMalcolm ArnoldSir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
- Fantasy for Cello (1986) - Alan RawsthorneAlan RawsthorneAlan Rawsthorne was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.-Career:...
- Cello Sonata (1986) - Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
- Cello Sonata (1988) - Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
- Ballade (1988) - Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
- Cello SonataCello Sonata (Shostakovich)The Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40, was one of Shostakovich's early works, composed in 1934 just prior to his censure by Soviet authorities of his music, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, that was deemed too bourgeois and decadent for the Soviet people...
(1988) - Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
- Elegie (1990) - Charles Villiers StanfordCharles Villiers StanfordSir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
- Cello Sonata No. 2 (1991) - Frederick DeliusFrederick DeliusFrederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
- Caprice and Elegy (1993) - Gustav HolstGustav HolstGustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
- Invocation (1993) - Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
- Cello SonataCello Sonata (Grieg)Edvard Grieg composed the Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36, his largest chamber work, in 1883 marking a return to composition following a period when the composer had been pre-occupied with his conducting duties at the Bergen Symphony Orchestra as well as illness. Grieg dedicated the piece to his...
(1995) - DeliusDeliusDelius is a surname. It may refer to:* Ernst von Delius - German racing car driver* Frederick Delius - English composer* Nicolaus Delius - German philologist* Tobias Delius Delius is a surname. It may refer to:* Ernst von Delius (1912–1937) - German racing car driver* Frederick Delius...
- Cello Sonata (1995) - Max BruchMax BruchMax Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...
- Kol Nidrei (1998)
Semi-classical
- OasisOasis (1980s group)Oasis was an English music group which formed in 1984. The group consisted of Peter Skellern, Julian Lloyd Webber, Mitch Dalton, Bill Lovelady and Mary Hopkin....
(1984) - Two Worlds (2000)
Collections
- Travels with my CelloTravels with my CelloCello Song is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1993 for Philips.An autobiography of the same name, Travels with my cello was published in 1984.-Track listing:# The Flight of the Bumble-bee by Rimsky-Korsakov...
(1984) - Pieces (with The London Symphony Orchestra) (1985)
- Encore! / Travels with my Cello Vol.2Travels with my CelloCello Song is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1993 for Philips.An autobiography of the same name, Travels with my cello was published in 1984.-Track listing:# The Flight of the Bumble-bee by Rimsky-Korsakov...
(1986) - Cello SongCello SongCello Song is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1993 for Philips.-Track listing:# Song of the Black Swan by Heitor Villa-Lobos # Cantata BWV 156 Adagio by J.S. Bach # Sea Murmurs by Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco...
(1993) - English IdyllEnglish Idyll (album)English Idyll is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1994 for Philips.-Track listing:# Romanza from Tuba Concerto by Vaughan Williams English Idyll is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 1994 for Philips.-Track listing:# Romanza from Tuba Concerto by Vaughan...
(1994) - Cradle SongCradle Song (album)Cradle Song is an album by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. In the U.S., the album was released under the title Lullaby.-Track listing:# Song for Baba by Julian Lloyd Webber # Träumerei by Robert Schumann# Wiegenlied by Franz Schubert...
(1995) - Cello MoodsCello MoodsCello Moods is an album recorded by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and, principally, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1998 for Philips. It is a collection of classical pieces either originally written for or adapted for the cello and orchestral accompaniment...
(1998) - Elegy (1999)
- Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd WebberLloyd Webber Plays Lloyd WebberLloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber is a 2001 album by British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. For the album, the musician chose to interpret songs written by his older brother, the popular musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. The album was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...
(2001) - Celebration (2001)
- Made in EnglandMade in England / Gentle Dreams (album)Made in England / Gentle Dreams is a two CD set album released by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in 2003.-CD1:# Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Girl from Ipanema# Julian Lloyd Webber: Kheira's Theme# Gershwin: Bess You Is My Woman Now# Secret Garden: Duo...
(2003) - Unexpected SongsUnexpected Songs-Track listing":# "Star of the County Down"/"Lady D'Arbanville" by Cat Stevens/Trad. arr. Chowhan# "Oblivion" by Ástor Piazzolla arr. Lenehan# "Marble Halls" by Michael Balfe# "Prelude in E minor" by Frédéric Chopin...
(2006) - Romantic Cello ConcertosRomantic Cello ConcertosRomantic Cello Concertos is a 2009 CD by Julian Lloyd Webber released by Sony Classics. It contains the world premiere recording of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto Como Un Divertimento which was dedicated to Julian Lloyd Webber.-Track listing:...
(2009) - Fair AlbionFair AlbionFair Albion - Visions of England, is a 2009 album on the Signum Classics label featuring compositions by Patrick Hawes. The music ‘celebrates the heart and soul of the British Landscape’...
- Music by Patrick HawesPatrick HawesPatrick Hawes is a British composer.He studied at St Chad's College, University of Durham before working as a teacher of music and English, being appointed composer in residence at Charterhouse School, where he produced a children's opera and several other choral works, some in partnership with...
(2009) - The Art of Julian Lloyd WebberThe Art of Julian Lloyd Webber-Track listing:Disc 1# "Cello Concerto 1st Movement" by Edward Elgar# "The Swan" by Saint-Saens# "Salut d’amour" by Edward Elgar# "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy# "Meditation from Thais" by Jules Massenet# "Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring" by Bach...
(2011) - Evening SongsEvening SongsEvening Songs is an album collection of arrangements for cello and piano of songs by Frederick Delius and John Ireland containing three world premiere recordings...
(2012)
First performances by Lloyd Webber
| Composer | Work | First Performance |
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| Malcolm Arnold Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain... |
Fantasy for Cello | Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both... , London, December 1987 |
| Malcolm Arnold Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain... |
Cello Concerto | Royal Festival Hall Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected... , London, March 1989 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works... |
Dream Sequence for Cello and Piano | Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both... , London, December 1994 |
| Frank Bridge Frank Bridge Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others... |
Scherzetto for Cello and Piano | Snape Maltings Snape Maltings Snape Maltings is part of Snape, Suffolk, U.K., best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival.... , April 1979 |
| Frank Bridge Frank Bridge Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others... |
Oration for Cello and Orchestra (1st public performance) | Bromsgrove Festival, Worcestershire, April 1979 |
| Gavin Bryars Gavin Bryars Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East... |
Cello Concerto (Farewell to Philosophy) | Barbican Centre Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory... , London, November 1995 |
| Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon was a British composer notable for his television and film themes.-Life and career:Burgon was born in Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the trumpet in order to join a jazz band at school... |
Six Studies for Solo Cello | St. Thomas Cathedral, Portsmouth, June 1980 |
| John Dankworth John Dankworth Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist... |
Fair Oak Fusion | Fair Oak, Sussex, July 1979 |
| Frederick Delius Frederick Delius Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce... |
Romance for Cello and Piano | Helsinki Festival, Finland, June 1976 |
| Edward Elgar Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos... |
Romance for Cello and Piano | Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both... , London, April 1985 |
| Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with... |
Cello Concerto | Beijing Festival, China, September 2001 |
| Vladimir Godar Vladimír Godár Vladimír Godár is a Slovak composer who is active in the fields of contemporary classical music and film music. He is also known for his collaboration with the Czech violinist, singer and composer Iva Bittová. As an academic, he is a writer, editor and translator of books on historical music... |
Barcarolle for Cello, Strings, Harp and Harpsichord | Hellenic Centre, London, April 1994 |
| Howard Goodall Howard Goodall 210px|thumb|Howard Goodall at St. John the Baptist Church in Devon, United Kingdom, May 2009Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE is a British composer of musicals, choral music and music for television... |
The Bridge is Love for Cello, Strings and Harp | Chipping Campden Festival, May 2008 |
| Patrick Hawes Patrick Hawes Patrick Hawes is a British composer.He studied at St Chad's College, University of Durham before working as a teacher of music and English, being appointed composer in residence at Charterhouse School, where he produced a children's opera and several other choral works, some in partnership with... |
Gloriette for Cello and Piano | Leeds Castle Leeds Castle Leeds Castle, southeast of Maidstone, Kent, England, dates back to 1119, though a Saxon fort stood on the same site from the 9th century. The castle is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds.... , Kent, August 2008 |
| Joseph Haydn Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms... (attrib.) |
Concerto in D, Hob. VIIb:4 | Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a music venue on the South Bank in London, United Kingdom that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall, which was built for the Festival... , London, November 1981 |
| Christopher Headington Christopher Headington Christopher Headington was an English composer and pianist.Born in London, he studied at Lancing College and the Royal Academy of Music, later studying composition with Lennox Berkeley... |
Serenade for Cello and Strings | Banqueting House Banqueting House In Tudor and Early Stuart English architecture a banqueting house is a separate building reached through pleasure gardens from the main residence, whose use is purely for entertaining. It may be raised for additional air or a vista, and it may be richly decorated, but it contains no bedrooms or... , London, January 1995 |
| Karl Jenkins Karl Jenkins -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace... |
Benedictus for Cello, Choir and Orchestra from 'The Armed Man The Armed Man The Armed Man is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled "A Mass for Peace". The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, and to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis... ' |
Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941.... , London, April 2000 |
| Philip Lane | Soliloquy for Solo Cello | Wangford Festival, Suffolk, July 1972 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of... |
Variations | Sydmonton Festival Sydmonton Festival The Sydmonton Festival is a summer arts festival presented in a deconsecrated 16th century chapel on the grounds of Sydmonton Court, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Hampshire estate... , Newbury, July 1977 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of... |
Phantasia (Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra) | Izmir Festival, Turkey, July 2008 |
| William Lloyd Webber William Lloyd Webber William Southcombe Lloyd Webber was an English organist and composer.-Life and career:Lloyd Webber was born in London... |
Nocturne for Cello and Piano | Purcell Room Purcell Room The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats.... , London, February 1995 |
| James MacMillan | Cello Sonata No.2 | Queens Hall, Edinburgh, April 2001 |
| Michael Nyman Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano... |
Concerto for Cello and Saxophone | Royal Festival Hall Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected... , London, March 1997 |
| Joaquín Rodrigo Joaquín Rodrigo Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success... |
Concierto como un Divertimento | Royal Festival Hall Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected... , London, April 1982 |
| Peter Skellern Peter Skellern Peter Skellern is an English singer-songwriter and pianist.-Career:Skellern attended Derby Grammar School and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He later joined pop groups called 'Harlem' and 'March Hare'... |
Five Love Songs for Cello, Piano, Vocals and Brass Quintet | Salisbury International Arts Festival Salisbury International Arts Festival Salisbury International Arts Festival is an annual multi-arts festival that delivers over 120 arts events each year, including concerts, comedy, poetry, dance, exhibitions, outdoor spectacles, and commissioned works.... , September 1982 |
| Arthur Sullivan Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado... |
Cello Concerto (orchestrated Mackerras) | Barbican Centre Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory... , London, April 1986 |
| Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes for Cello and Orchestra | Three Choirs Festival Three Choirs Festival The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held each August alternately at the cathedrals of the Three Counties and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme... , Gloucester, August 1983 |
| William Walton William Walton Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera... |
Theme for a Prince for Solo Cello | Adrian Boult Hall Adrian Boult Hall The Adrian Boult Hall is the main concert hall of the Birmingham Conservatoire in central Birmingham, England. It is named after the conductor Adrian Boult.... , Birmingham, October 1998 |
| Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre is an American composer, conductor and lecturer. He is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation. In 2008, the all-Whitacre choral CD Cloudburst became an international best-seller, topping the classical charts and earning a Grammy nomination... |
The River Cam for cello and strings | Royal Festival Hall Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected... , London, April 2011 |
| Douglas Young | Virages for Solo Cello | Purcell Room Purcell Room The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats.... , London, September 1974 |
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- Performance of FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
's Elegy - Performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto 3rd Movement
- Extract from first recording of Menotti's Arioso for 2 cellos and strings