![]() Again, Jiaxin met him after his rehearsal, and he invited her to the concert. It had been, he says, “a very difficult time for me” (his third marriage was breaking up). The next time they met, in 2006, on Julian’s last tour of New Zealand, was “when something really started to click,” he says. “Being a cellist herself, she was very helpful, and I was able to get a good recording.” “At rehearsal, the sound wasn’t good and I asked Jiaxin if she could come and listen,” says Julian. ![]() By then, Jiaxin had graduated and was playing in the Auckland Philharmonia and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Julian got her email address, and contacted her two years later when he was on tour in the country again to ask if she was still in New Zealand, adding that he might need her technical help with a concert that was going to be broadcast. “Our teacher took us backstage to say hello,” she says. Born in China, Jiaxin had graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and was doing a master’s degree at Auckland University. The first time, in 2000, Julian, the celebrated cellist, was on tour in New Zealand, and Jiaxin was one of a number of music students invited to hear him rehearse. But when we come to listen to Julian's recordings or live performances, whose brother or son he is is irrelevant, he is an extraordinary cellist who plays with impeccable accuracy (have you seen his performance of Karl Jenkins' Benedictus on Songs of Praise recently?) and incredible passion, which he communicates very well with the audience.It wasn’t until the third time Julian Lloyd Webber and Jiaxin Cheng met that the idea of a romantic relationship seemed a possibility. Surely they must owe some of their talent to the musical genius of their father, composer William Lloyd Webber, and to the musical environment they grew up in. Their careers started pretty much simultaneously but they soon took very different directions. The age gap between the brothers is only about 3 years, I think. It must have been very hard for him to establish himself as an international cellist, having the name Lloyd Webber. I sometimes see comments on the Internet by people saying he became famous only because he is the brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Great variety of music and styles, there's something for everyone, whether it is your introduction to Julian's cello music or whether you want a "best of" collection to play in the car. ![]() This is an excellent collection of some of the pieces that have become staples in Julian Lloyd Webber's repertoire, so quite rightly a "celebration" of 40 plus years of career. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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