![]() Gabetta’s recorded version is also on the playlist, with Mario Venzago conducting the Royal Danish National Orchestra. 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. Recorded at the Harrogate Centre as part of the Harrogate International Festival 1986Julian Lloyd Webber, CelloSir Yehudi Menuhin, ConductorThe Royal Philhar. 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’. 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). Cello Moods is an album recorded by the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and, principally, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under James Judd in 1998 for Philips.It is a collection of classical pieces either originally written for or adapted for the cello and orchestral accompaniment. 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. Julian Lloyd Webber, Yitkin Seow: 1: 1982: Pastourelle (Inspired by the Songs of the Auvergne). 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. ![]() The first cellist to really further the concerto’s cause was Beatrice Harrison, seen above with Elgar in an early recording from 1920. Independent on Sunday Lloyd Webber and Menuhin get the Elgar just right. ![]() 62 Julian Lloyd Webber, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner & Edward Elgar 06:34 6 Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. BBC Music Magazine This was the most purely pleasurable cello playing I’ve heard in ages. Allegro Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin & Edward Elgar 11:19 5 Elgar: Romance, Op. The first performance took place with soloist Felix Salmond, Albert Coates conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Washington Post Put simply, this is just marvellous cello playing. ![]() 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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