A Tale of Two Cellos

Featuring

Jiaxin Lloyd Webber
John Lenehan
Julian Lloyd Webber
Catrin Finch
Guy Johnston
Laura van der Heijden

Camille Saint-Saëns
Ástor Piazzolla
Claudio Monteverdi
Dmitri Shostakovich
Gustav Holst
Roger Quilter
Anton Rubinstein
Antonín Dvořák
William Lloyd Webber
Robert Schumann
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Reynaldo Hahn
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Henry Purcell
Ethelbert Nevin
Joseph Barnby
Arvo Pärt

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Instruments

Julian Lloyd Webber plays the 'Barjansky' Stradivarius cello, an instrument dating from around 1690.

Performer Biography

John Lenehan, who arranged one of the pieces, has an extensive discography covering music from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries and has recorded a Gramophone award-winning album.

Performer Biography

Catrin Finch, the harpist on this album, gained international fame as the first Royal Harpist since Queen Victoria's reign.

Performer Biography

Julian Lloyd Webber, one of the cellists on this album, has premiered over fifty new works for cello and inspired new compositions from diverse composers.

Performer Biography

Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, a cellist on this album, graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and was a founding member of the Aroha String Quartet.

Compositional Technique

Many pieces on this album began as vocal duets, a form that adapts well to two cellos due to their harmonic and close communion.

Interpretation

The album's concept, 'A Tale of Two Cellos,' originated from the performers' enjoyment of playing quality music together and their intrigue with how their different cello 'voices' blended.