julian lloyd webber phantasia for violin and cello

#Julian lloyd webber phantasia for violin and cello professional

Julian married fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng in 2009 in Kensington and Chelsea, London.

A recent EMI disc, Unexpected Songs, which included collaborations with harpist Catrin Finch and singer Michael Ball was released in June 2006. Lloyd Webber's recording, Phantasia, is based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera and features violinist Sarah Chang. 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. 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. 2, 2001), and Philip Glass (Cello Concerto, 2001). 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. 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 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'. Lloyd Webber has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Georg Solti, and Esa-Pekka Salonen as well as Stephane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine.

#Julian lloyd webber phantasia for violin and cello professional

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. Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music (London) and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva in 1973. Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Julian Lloyd Webber plays the Barjansky Stradivarius cello, dated c.1690. He is a British solo cellist, described as 'the doyen of British Cellists'.