A Tale of Two Cellos

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{refimprove|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = A Tale of Two Cellos | type = Studio Album | artist = [[Julian Lloyd Webber]] | cover = A Tale of Two Cellos.jpg | alt = | released = 2013<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=December 19, 2022 |title=Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-julian-and-jiaxin-lloyd-web/180372824/ |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref> | recorded = January 2013 | venue = | studio = | genre = Classical | length = | label = [[Naxos Records]] | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}

'''''A Tale of Two Cellos''''' is a recording of twenty-one duets for two [[cello]]s and [[piano]] (or [[harp]]) ranging from the sixteenth century, [[Monteverdi]], to the twenty-first century, [[Arvo Pärt]]. The recording features cellists [[Julian Lloyd Webber]], his wife [[Jiaxin Cheng]], pianist John Lenehan, harpist [[Catrin Finch]], and two former [[BBC Young Musician of the Year]] winners [[Guy Johnston]] and [[Laura van der Heijden (musician)|Laura van der Heijden]]. It was released by [[Naxos Records]] in September 2013.

==Track listing== [[File:Jiaxin Cheng and Julian Lloyd Webber.jpg|thumb|Jiaxin Cheng and Julian Lloyd Webber, 2018]] # [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]: Ave Maria # [[Astor Piazzolla]]: The Little Beggar Boy (Chiquilin de Bachin) # [[Claudio Monteverdi]]: Interrotte Speranze # [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]: Prelude from ''[[The Gadfly Suite|The Gadfly]]'' # [[Gustav Holst]]: Hymn to the Dawn, Op. 26, No. 1 (arr. for four cellos and harp) # [[Roger Quilter]]: My Lady ([[Greensleeves]]) # [[Anton Rubinstein]]: The Angel, Op. 48, No. 1 # [[Antonín Dvořák]]: [[Moravian Duets|The Harvesters, Op. 38, No. 3]] # [[William Lloyd Webber]]: Moon Silver # [[Robert Schumann]]: Summer Calm (Sommerruh) # [[Giovanni Pergolesi]]: Dolorosa (''[[Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)|Stabat Mater]]'') # [[Antonín Dvořák]]: [[Moravian Duets|Autumn Lament, Op. 38, No. 4]] # [[Reynaldo Hahn]]: If my songs were only wingèd # [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]: The Waves are Dreaming, Op. 15, No. 2 # [[Henry Purcell]]: Lost is my quiet for ever # [[Antonín Dvořák]]: [[Moravian Duets|The Modest Lass, Op. 32, No. 8]] # [[Robert Schumann]]: Evening Star (An den Abendstern) Op. 103, No. 4 # [[Ethelbert Nevin]]: O that we two were maying # [[Joseph Barnby]]: Sweet and Low # [[Roger Quilter]]: Summer Sunset # [[Arvo Pärt]]: Estonian Lullaby

==Personnel== * [[Julian Lloyd Webber]] cello * [[Jiaxin Cheng]] cello * John Lenehan piano * [[Catrin Finch]] harp * [[Guy Johnston]] cello * [[Laura van der Heijden (musician)|Laura van der Heijden]] cello

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * [https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8034153--a-tale-of-two-cellos Album details], Presto Classical * [http://www.julianlloydwebber.com/?p=429 ''A Tale of Two Cellos'' album reviews], julianlloydwebber.com * {{YouTube|9MkbZcx4i4A|Saint-Saëns's "Ave Maria" performance}} * {{YouTube|Fx2OlxroqBs|Piazzolla's "The Little Beggar Boy" performance|link=no}}

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