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Much of the music is quite tiring after a full listen, but one will find bits and pieces of vibrant, breathing passion and some cracks of dreamy, moonlit musical escapades. Drift deep into a spacious sea of ethereal.
The stage lights up with a hearty and flamboyant rendition of Chopin's Nocturne for piano in E flat major, Op. Cello Moods is a visceral and relaxing piece of fresh air with Julian Lloyd Webber as your ticket to meditation. A forever favorite will always be Giulio Caccini's Ave Maria, splendid even in these times with the presence of a cello and small backing orchestra. Track eight is a candid and eloquent rendition of Sakura-Sakura, the tiny yet lively Japanese traditional piece. Jackie's Song is an original composed and performed by Webber, a tribute to his adoration of a young prodigy named Jacqueline de Pre, whose career was tragically cut short by the shocking discovery of her multiple sclerosis. Webber arranged many of the pieces within this record much to his liking, taking the richness of Claude Debussy's Rêverie to a simpler level, and clearing up the murky settings of Alexander Borodin's Nocturne music. Drift deep into a spacious sea of ethereal colors and textures with the sounds of Webber's cello. In this recording internationally celebrated cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has taken music from Monteverdi to Arvo Prt much of it originally written for two voices and adapted it to the medium of two cellos and accompanying piano, sometimes. I can tell you that the drive back to London from Bradford after the concert was, for both of us, emotionally shattering.Cello Moods is a visceral and relaxing piece of fresh air with Julian Lloyd Webber as your ticket to meditation. Good original music for two cellos is quite rare to find and over the years arrangements have greatly enriched the classical repertoire. I replaced the Haydn with a Vivaldi two-cello concerto with my wife, rang my manager to cancel all future engagements and that was that. I soldiered on for a while, but when I was due to play Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto in April 2014, I felt enough was enough.
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‘It was a terrible decision to have to make,’ he reflects, ‘but especially given the fact that I had a young family, I wanted to enjoy life to the full and felt I had no option but to retire from professional playing. Read Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber appointed new Birmingham Conservatoire principal Read Julian Lloyd Webber – a glittering career However, the necessary operation had dangers attached to it – in fact, two surgeons refused to operate as he was not actually in pain. By now, that was about my limit – I could just about play flat out for ten minutes and then I would seriously begin to lose power.’ Following a number of consultations and scans, it was discovered that Lloyd Webber had a herniated disc in his neck. In November I was involved in a wonderful gathering of my cellist chums at the Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, playing Strad cellos, and we each had a short piece to play.
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‘Happily, at that time I was booked to play a series of cello duo concerts with my wife, Jiaxin Cheng, which on the whole didn’t require the stamina and technical bravado of my regular solo repertoire. A lifelong Leyton Orient supporter, he was the London Underground’s first official busker and the only classical musician to perform at the Closing Ceremony of Olympics 2012.
Initially, his instinct afterwards was to soldier on regardless. Julian is married to fellow cellist Jiaxin Cheng. Somehow, we made it through, but where there are rapid changes between bowing and pizzicato in the second movement I simply kept the bow going, as I hadn’t sufficient control to hold the bow and pizzicato at the same time.’ During the interval, I expressed doubts to both Rebeca and the concert organiser as to whether I would be able to finish the concert, especially as we were ending it with Rachmaninoff’s mighty Cello Sonata, of all pieces. Julian Lloyd Webber is widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation, and he has inspired many new compositions and arrangements for cello many featured on The. ‘It was so bad that at times, as I struggled to get through the first half of the programme, it felt as though I could hardly hold the bow. ‘After about ten minutes I felt the power suddenly go from my bowing arm,’ he explains, still visibly shaken by the recollection. Lloyd Webber was still at the height of his powers when in October 2013, during a recital in Southwold, Suffolk, with his pianist Rebeca Omordia, the unthinkable happened. Julian Lloyd Webber with his wife, cellist Jiaxin Cheng
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