Cradle Song (album)

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Cradle Song
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Studio album by Julian Lloyd Webber
Released 1993
Label Philips Records
Julian Lloyd Webber Collections chronology
English Idyll
(1994)
Cradle Song
(1993)
Cello Moods
(1998)

Cradle Song is an album by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. In the U.S., the album was released under the title Lullaby.

Julian Lloyd Webber British solo cellist and conductor

Julian Lloyd Webber is a British cellist, conductor and the principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Song for Baba by Julian Lloyd Webber Filmed Performance
  2. Träumerei by Robert Schumann
  3. Wiegenlied by Franz Schubert
  4. Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito by Xavier Montsalvatge
  5. Shepherd's Lullaby by Thomas J. Hewitt
  6. Lullaby by Antonín Dvořák
  7. Songs My Mother Taught Me by Antonín Dvořák
  8. Dream Sequence arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett
  9. Slumber Song by Roger Quilter
  10. Where Go the Boats by Roger Quilter
  11. Slumber Song by Cyril Scott
  12. Slumber Song by William Lloyd Webber
  13. Brezairola by Joseph Canteloube
  14. A Little Song by Aram Khachaturian
  15. Alice by John Lenehan
  16. Babar the Elephant (excerpt) by Francis Poulenc
  17. Gentle Dreams by Dave Heath
  18. Mary's Lullaby by John Rutter
  19. Berceuse by Gabriel Fauré
  20. Wiegenlied by Johannes Brahms
  21. Nursery Suite arranged by Pam Chowhan

Personnel

Philips CD/MC 442 426-2/4



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