Gabetta’s recorded version is also on the playlist, with Mario Venzago conducting the Royal Danish National Orchestra. Lloyd Webber made his professional debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the Cello Concerto. Music in the air: 100 years of Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Julian Lloyd Webber will air on Classic FM on Sunday 27 October, from 5pm to 7pm. More recently the Cello Concerto has become widespread, most recently with a first night performance at the Proms from Sol Gabetta and an appearance at this year’s season from Sheku Kanneh-Mason. It also apparently convinced a certain Mstislav Rostropovich not to become better acquainted with the piece. This ‘real large work’ was indeed ‘good and alive’, as Elgar himself quipped. 1690) took centre stage to begin Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 with great familiarity. This recording preserved du Pré’s reputation as a cellist of great passion and technique, with the considerable help of a seasoned Elgarian in Barbirolli behind the orchestral ‘wheel’. Julian Lloyd Webber and his Barjansky Stradivarius (c. It was not really until 1965 that the work reached regular public consumption, thanks to a searing recording by the young Jacqueline du Pre, with the London Symphony Orchestra this time under Sir John Barbirolli’s direction (also on the playlist). The melodies came to Elgar in the aftermath of a painful operation on his tonsils, and while he could hear the sound of fighting in the First World War across the English channel. Her official recording with the composer from 1928 can be heard on the playlist below.Īgain the work fell into disregard, possibly on account of its darker autumnal hues. Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor Op 85 - Julian Lloyd Webber 1986 Tio Ngee Ping 3.3K subscribers 137 views 1 year ago Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by. He started out as an organist and composer, but he virtually stopped. TJ: There is a picture of William Lloyd Webber on your website.
The first cellist to really further the concerto’s cause was Beatrice Harrison, seen above with Elgar in an early recording from 1920. Julian’s recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz will be released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2004. The first performance took place with soloist Felix Salmond, Albert Coates conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. It was not always that way for the Cello Concerto in E minor, however, as an under-rehearsed premiere may well have contributed to a gap in London performances of more than a year. Today is the centenary of one of Sir Edward Elgar‘s best-loved works, first performed on this day in 1919.
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