Unexpected Songs

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Unexpected Songs
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Studio album by
Released2006
Label EMI [1]
Julian Lloyd Webber Collections chronology
Made in England / Gentle Dreams
(2003)
Unexpected Songs
(2006)
Romantic Cello Concertos
(2009)

Unexpected Songs is a 2006 album by Julian Lloyd Webber.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Star of the County Down"/"Lady D'Arbanville" by Cat Stevens/Trad. arr. Chowhan
  2. "Oblivion" by Ástor Piazzolla arr. Lenehan
  3. "Marble Halls" by Michael Balfe
  4. "Prelude in E minor" by Frédéric Chopin
  5. "In Haven (Capri)" from Sea Pictures by Edward Elgar
  6. "Chant hindou" by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
  7. "Trees" by Oscar Rasbach
  8. "L'Heure exquise" by Reynaldo Hahn
  9. "Kashmiri Love Song" by Amy Woodforde-Finden arr. Lenehan
  10. "Koyal" "(Songbird)" by Nitin Sawhney/Saroj Sawhney
  11. "Sicilienne" by Gabriel Fauré
  12. "Hushabye Mountain" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Richard Sherman arr. Finch
  13. "Music when soft voices die" by Roger Quilter
  14. "Serenade" by Franz Schubert
  15. "The Lea Rig" Traditional Scottish arr. Chowhan
  16. "African Crib Carol" Traditional African arr. F. Ray Bennett, Lenehan & J. Lloyd Webber
  17. "In trutina" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
  18. "A Gift of a Thistle" from Braveheart by James Horner arr. Chowhan
  19. "To a Wild Rose" by Edward MacDowell
  20. "Unexpected Song" (with Michael Ball) from Song and Dance by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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References

  1. EMI CD 0946 3 59488 2 0