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Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber finds immediacy and rapture in music

Julian Lloyd Webber opens up a selection of classical music from his point of view of a music educator and former cellist - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Music educator and former cellist Julian Lloyd Webber introduces a wide-ranging selection of pieces, from Frederick Delius’s concisely constructed Song before Sunrise, to the loudest live performance he ever heard - a track by the band Cream.

He also discovers conductor Evgeny Svetlanov playing the piano in a little-known chorus by Rachmaninov, and wonders whether the cellist Pierre Fournier produced such a recognisable sound because of the shape of his fingers.

Plus Julian remembers how when he and his brother Andrew were flummoxed by a particular chord in a Beach Boys song, their father William Lloyd Webber came to the rescue.

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.

A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

1 hour, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    A Song Before Sunrise

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 (I. Allegro)

    Performer: William Primrose. Ensemble: Griller Quartet.
    • DOCUMENTS.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 4 in C minor (III. Moderato con moto)

    Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • URANIA.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Chiquilin de Bachin

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber. Performer: John Lenehan. Music Arranger: Julian Lloyd Webber.
    • NAXOS.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major (III. Precipitato)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • SONY.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor (IV. Allegro)

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin.
    • DECCA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Waves are Dreaming (Six Choruses, Op. 15)

    Performer: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov. Choir: USSR Television and Radio Choir. Conductor: Ludmila Ermakova.
    • CDK MUSIC.
  • Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Borzeguim

    Singer: Antônio Carlos Jobim. Ensemble: Nova Banda.
    • VERVE.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172 (I. Allegro)

    Performer: Pierre Fournier. Ensemble: Lucerne Festival Strings. Conductor: Rudolf Baumgartner.
    • DG.
  • Nabil Benabdeljalil

    Nocturne No. 6

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • SOMM.
  • William Lloyd Webber

    Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

    Performer: Ian Watson. Choir: Westminster Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber

    John 19:41 (Jesus Christ Superstar)

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • DECCA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 (III. Allegro molto)

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • RCA.
  • Cream

    I Feel Free

    • POLYDOR.
  • Václav Trojan

    The Magic Box (Fairy Tales: A Concerto for Accordion)

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 21 May 2022 13:00

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