Widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation, Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates his fiftieth birthday in 2001 with first performances of two works especially written for him by James MacMillan and Philip Glass. Julian
will premiere MacMillan’s Second Cello Sonata at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on April 17th and Philip Glass’ Cello Concerto on October 21st in Beijing, China, at the Beijing International Festival. On June 1st 2001 Julian will give a
special birthday Gala concert in aid of the Princes Trust at the Royal Albert Hall where he will play the Elgar Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Barry Wordsworth. Julian’s brother, Andrew will then join him
for the first time ever on the concert platform to play pieces from the new Philips/Universal Classics CD ‘Julian Lloyd Webber plays Andrew Lloyd Webber’ (released May 2001).
An exclusive Philips/Universal Classics artist since 1984 Julian Lloyd Webber has given more than fifty works their first recordings including Frank Bridge’s Oration (Concerto Elegiaco), Britten’s Cello Suite No. 3, Holst’s Invocation and
the new concerto by Gavin Bryars, ‘Farewell to Philosophy’. Julian’s interpretations of the standard repertoire have also won great acclaim. His award-winning recording of the Elgar Concerto with Sir Yehudi Menuhin and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was chosen as the finest-ever recorded version by BBC Music Magazine and further Philips recordings include the Dvorák Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic under Vaclav Neumann and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo
Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich.
In the concert hall Julian Lloyd Webber continues his collaborations with many of the leading orchestras and musicians of our time including the Berlin Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under
Sir Neville Marriner, the London Philharmonic under Sir Georg Solti, and the Royal Philharmonic under Sir Yehudi Menuhin. He has given performances at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Kennedy Centre in Washington
D.C., the Sydney Opera House, the Salle Pleyel, Paris, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Julian Lloyd Webber’s recording of the Walton Concerto and Britten’s Cello Symphony with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner was released in July 1997 to ‘rave’ reviews; the Britten being described by
Edward Greenfield in Gramophone as "beyond any rival". Recent concert performances have included Michael Nyman’s Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on BBC Television, and Gavin Bryars’ Concerto in Tokyo.
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