An evening with Julian Lloyd Webber

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 13 May 2015

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 11 May 2015

Lloyd Webber, In the half-light

Rachmaninov, Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19

Fauré, Élégie in C minor, Op.24

Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera: The Music of the Night

Bridge, Scherzetto for cello and piano

Elgar, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (Excerpts)

Glass, Tissue no. 2

Julian Lloyd Webber, Cello

Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, Cello

Pam Chowhan, Piano

Julian Lloyd Webber Pays Tribute to Cello Greats in Cornwall

Lucy Armstrong, 15th March

It is inevitable that one of the most beloved of orchestral instruments, the cello, will entice a diverse crowd of enthusiastic concertgoers – and that even in the midst of a recession, there prevails an inherent desire to depart from the self now and then for a ritualistic celebration of great music.

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A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

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Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

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Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

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Kinan Azmeh offers a sampling of delights with St Luke’s

No’a L. bat Miri, 15th April

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.

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Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.

An evening with Julian Lloyd Webber at St George's, Bristol