![]() “But I think it is probably quite similar in that we both believe in breaking down the barriers that might be there between the performer and the audience.” “I don’t know much about The Naked Violin,” Lloyd-Webber says, The format is similar to that introduced by violinist Tasmin Little, another recent visitor to Cork, in her hugely popular show The Naked Violin. I read a bit from my book Travels with my Cello in the second half and I take questions and answers from the audience.” “It’s a real mixture, the idea is really to show off the cello and the music for it. He also has an 18-month-old daughter with Cheng.Īnd has he written something in her honour too? “Yes,” he replies, “I have written something for her, but it hasn’t emerged yet.” Lloyd-Webber describes his upcoming round of Irish concerts as much more informal than the ones he usually plays. His son, David, was the only child from Lloyd-Webber’s second marriage, to an exiled Afghan princess Zohra Ghazi. “It has to be a fairly cataclysmic event, the one I’ll be playing is a lullaby I wrote for my son when he was born.” “I have done a little composing, yes, but very rarely,” he says. That the cellist composes himself may be more of a surprise. He has enjoyed something of a revival in recent years. His father, William Lloyd-Webber, was an organist and composer whose compositions were rooted in late-romanticism and somewhat out-of-place in mid-20th century England. Lloyd-Webber’s brother is Andrew Lloyd-Webber, composer of huge hit musicals such as Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Phantom of the Opera. “Then there’s a sort of family section with music by my father and brother and myself.” ![]() The Scherzetto I’ll be playing by him is a great virtuoso showpiece which had never been played before I discovered it in the library of the Royal College of Music. Bridge wrote some lovely music but now he is better remembered as the teacher of Benjamin Britten. Sometimes you come across something that has been unfairly neglected. “Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to explore the whole range of music written for the cello. It includes music by Bach, Fauré, Elgar and Debussy and a work by the British composer Frank Bridge. The programme for the tour is a mix of popular classics with a few lesser-known works. In his more adventuresome collaborations he has worked with Elton John, Cleo Laine, and even formed his own ensemble, ¡Bossa Nova! Lloyd Webber's recordings include the collections of shorter pieces and transcriptions Cello Moods, Cradle Songs, and Cello Song, and a retrospective of his work for Philips/Universal, Made in England, released in 2003.For his upcoming Irish tour Lloyd-Webber will perform a selection of solo cello showpieces with piano accompanist, Pam Chowhan. Martin-in-the-Fields, James Judd and the Philharmonia Orchestra, but also more international artists, such as Maxim Shostakovich and Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic. He has worked with many English orchestras and conductors, such as the London Symphony, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. ![]() In appearances around the world, he has given premieres of concertos by Rodrigo (Concierto como un Divertimento, 1982), Malcolm Arnold (1989), Gavin Bryars (Farewell to Philosophy, 1995), and Philip Glass (2001, recorded in 2004 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Gerard Schwarz). He wrote an account of his career in 1984, entitled Travels With My Cello, which happens to be the "Barjansky" Stradivarius, made around 1690. The Guildhall School of Music named him professor of cello in 1978, and he made his American debut in 1980 in New York. His recording of that same work marked the first of what are now over 50 premiere recordings of works for the cello, many of them written for him. His London debut was in 1971, in a recital, followed in 1972 by his concert debut performing the Cello Concerto of Arthur Bliss. ![]() The son of composer William Lloyd Webber and brother of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, he studied with Douglas Cameron and Joan Dickson, and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in London, and also spent some time in Geneva with Pierre Fournier. Julian Lloyd Webber is known as a cellist who is always willing to expand the horizons of the instrument's world. ![]()
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