Cello sonata (in one movement); 2 Pieces for
cello and piano; Romance; Hassan: Serenade.
(N) Ph. Dig. 454 458-2 [id]. Julian Lloyd
Webber, Bengt Forsberg — GRIEG: Cello sonata.***

Julian Lloyd Webber offers a most attractive coupling of the complete cello and piano music of both Delius and Grieg, composers closely linked both in musical style and as personal friends. Since he last recorded the Delius Cello sonata (for Unicorn in 1981) Lloyd Webber has refined and deepened his reading, making it tauter than before. He is just as warmly sympathetic in the shorter pieces.