Artist's albums
Julian Lloyd Webber plays Andrew Lloyd Webber
2001 · album
Two Worlds
2000 · album
Cello Moods
1999 · album
Webber: Invocation
1998 · album
Bantock: Sappho & Sapphic Poem
1997 · album
Britten: Cello Symphony / Walton: Cello Concerto
1997 · album
British Cello Music Vol. 1
1996 · album
British Cello Music Vol. 2
1996 · album
Cello Song
1993 · album
Cello Time
2023 · album
Romantic Cello
2022 · compilation
Coffee & Classical
2019 · compilation
Naxos March 2015 New Release Sampler
2015 · compilation
Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 Cellos
2014 · album
A Tale of Two Cellos
2013 · album
Delius & Ireland: Evening Songs
2012 · album
Bridge: Oration & Phantasm
2007 · album
Unexpected Songs
2006 · album
Phantasia: The Woman In White Suite
2005 · single
John Dankworth's Fair Oak Fusions
2004 · album
Gentle Dreams: The Best of Julian Lloyd Webber
2003 · compilation
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Enigma Variations
2002 · album
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Biography
Julian Lloyd Webber is known as a cellist who is always willing to expand the horizons of the instrument's world. 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. His London debut was in 1971, in a recital, followed in 1972 by his concert debut performing the Cello Concerto of Arthur Bliss. 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. The Guildhall School of Music named him professor of cello in 1978, and he made his American debut in 1980 in New York. He wrote an account of his career in 1984, entitled Travels With My Cello, which happens to be the "Barjansky" Stradivarius, made around 1690. 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 has worked with many English orchestras and conductors, such as the London Symphony, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. 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. 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.