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Music and Musicians January 1986
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Haydn Cello Concerto
One would be delighted to hear Julian
Lloyd Webber's performances of the Haydn
C major and D major Cello Concertos with
the English Chamber Orchestra (Philips 412
793—1 record; 412793—4 cassette; 412
793—2 compact disc) in the concert hall, and
on disc they make an excellent coupling,
which leaves Nos 2 and 3 for a subsequent
album, although this particular recording was
made by RCA and never released by them
when they had Lloyd Webber under contract.
It was a shrewd move of Philips to buy the
tapes, for the result is a very attractive album,
intensely musical, with excellent verve in the
finales and some highly suitable phrasing
from both soloist and orchestra. The
cadenzas are, presumably, by Lloyd Webber,
and good as they are they are not in the same
class as those Britten wrote for Rostropovitch
in the C major, but they are rather more in
keeping historically than Britten's.
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