Julian Lloyd Webber
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 Julian Lloyd Webber performing in 1978
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| Born | 14 April 1951 |
| Occupation(s) | Cellist |
Julian Lloyd Webber (born April 14, 1951) is one of the world's most renowned solo cellists. He is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber (some of whose pieces for cello he has recorded) and the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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[edit] Life and work
Julian Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music (London) and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva.
Lloyd Webber has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians from Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner , Georg Solti and Esa-Pekka Salonen to Stephane 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 Vaclav 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 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 (album): "It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday" - Gramophone.
Lloyd Webber has given more than fifty works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold and Joaquín Rodrigo to James MacMillan and Philip Glass. Recent concert performances have included three 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 and Philip Glass's Concerto at the Beijing International Festival. His recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz was released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2004.
Lloyd Webber’s recording, Phantasia, is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera and features violinist Sarah Chang. A recent EMI disc, Unexpected Songs, which included collaborations with harpist Catrin Finch and singer Michael Ball was released in June 2006.
Julian Lloyd Webber has also been greatly involved in music education and formed the 'Music Education Consortium' with James Galway and Evelyn Glennie in 2003. He also writes a monthly column on music and musicians for the Daily Telegraph. 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.
Julian Lloyd Webber plays the Barjansky Stradivarius cello, dated c.1690.
A biography of Julian Lloyd Webber, "Married to Music" by Margaret Campbell, was published by Robson Books in 2001.
[edit] Recordings
[edit] Orchestral Recordings
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- Frank Bridge Oration (1976)
- Benjamin Britten Cello Symphony (1995)
- Gavin Bryars Cello Concerto (1994)
- Delius Cello Concerto (1982)
- Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto (1988)
- Elgar Cello Concerto (1985)
- Philip Glass Cello Concerto (2003)
- Granville Bantock Sapphic Poem (1999)
- Haydn Cello Concertos Nos.1 and 2 (1983)
- Victor Herbert Cello Concerto No.2 (1986)
- Honegger Cello Concerto (1990)
- Lalo Cello Concerto (1982)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantasia album for violin, cello and orchestra (2004)
- Miaskovsky Cello Concerto 1991)
- Nyman Concerto for Cello, Saxophone and orchestra (1996)
- Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto Como Un Divertimento (1982)
- Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1(1990)
- Arthur Sullivan Cello Concerto (1986)
- Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme(1991)
- William Walton Cello Concerto 1995)
[edit] Chamber Recordings
- Arnold Fantasy for Cello (1986)
- Britten Cello Sonata (1988)
- Britten Third Suite for Cello (1979)
- Bruch Kol Nidrei (1998)
- Debussy Cello Sonata (1979)
- Delius Caprice and Elegy (1993)
- Delius Cello Sonata (1995)
- Fauré Elegie (1990)
- Fricker Cello Sonata (1976)
- Grieg Cello Sonata (1995)
- Holst Invocation (1993)
- Ireland Cello Sonata (1979)
- Ireland Complete Piano Trios (1976)
- Lloyd Webber Variations (album) (1977)
- Prokofiev Ballade (1988)
- Rachmaninov Cello Sonata (1979)
- Rawsthorne Cello Sonata (1986)
- Shostakovich Cello Sonata (1988)
- Stanford Cello Sonata No.2 (1991)
[edit] Collections
- Travels with my Cello (1984)
- Encore! / Travels with my Cello Vol.2 (1986)
- Cello Song (1993)
- Cradle Song (1995)
- English Idyll (1994)
- Cradle Song (1995)
- Cello Moods (1998)
- Elegy (1999)
- Lloyd Webber plays Lloyd Webber (2001)
- Celebration (2001)
- Made in England (2001)
- Unexpected Songs (2006)
