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MUSIC WEEK MAY 12, 1984 Edited Edited rm PBI by by [PODBCLOS _n- _K_' NIGEL HUNTER g[LZ?\SS[](§/5\ NICOLAS SOAMES At 33, is the much frovelled cellist ready to settle with one label? Getting to grips with Panache— A new variation in East Horsley rS PANACHE MUSIC UK is soon to be operatingcom anfrom ^ ^° '^ for Lloyd Webber Forrester, who has been seeing the P ^ li..i.lr.i...ii ii mi siTi* SS" "iirs— SE .nd «.d=«. .n« All this time, Lloyd Webber was more settled now," he says, adding Publishing before taking on the Panache business. „_j„n ar,H nntinn JUST AS Oasis, his new album building a reputation for interesting that he hopes that Philips Classics He's disposing of Panache's present premises so".,^Lo"^0"/ a"d made with Mary Hopkin and repertoire — many were premiere would be able to get hold of the eagerly for the countrified Surrey site, where ^ a|so lw?s-But thee move wil Peter Skellern, charted after recordings — and also popular Haydn Concerto tapes and release not seduce him from the path of entrepreneurial enthusiasm for the world of only a couple of weeks in the music. the recordings in due course. music publishing and talent spotting. •n uor,/-no,H Kw shops, Julian Lloyd Webber Lloyd Webber's first enormous He is extremely confident of the The business and administration of copyright and royalty will be handed by signed a new contract with success was the Variations record, success of his new project as he is Gareth Perkins, and in other areas accountants and lawyers. .Al' °f Philips. made with his brother Andrew for pleased with the evident popularity sounds rather grandiose in view of the fact that Forrester is s i in g Ostensibly, the deal is for one MCA Records, which has sold over of Oasis — a project which, record only, an album of popular 400,000 units in the UK alone, and it incidentally, originated when he There have been problems recently: unsuccessful record ventures (Secret was this potential crossover image asked Peter Skellern to write a work label) and a computer experiment which didn't work. But Panache has its own pieces and arrangements made that persuaded RCA to take an for cello and brass band. (That too label now with Island, and two promising acts in Pillowhead and The Imtas. with the English Chamber interest. had a chequered recording life — There's also the Scott Walker album on Virgin with all tracks but one penned Orchestra, which is due for At first, the initial contract for when Lloyd Webber made the by the unpredictable minstrel (whom some thought could be the next Sinatra), release in October to coincide three records seemed to work well: recordings, he thought it was for And there's another Walker album on the way. with the musician's first book, clearly artist and company had MCA, but it eventually came out on "I'm looking for packages rather than songwriters," said Forrester, and that Travels with my Cello. agreed on a mixed bag — popular WEA). means performing ability and record contacts as well as writing talent. But he is hoping that it will be the albums such as Cello Man and the start of some order in a recording life widely reported premiere recording that has been as varied and of Rodrigo's Cello Concerto, fol- unpredictable as it has been busy. lowed by the Delius, Hoist and Crossover At 33, Julian Lloyd Webber can Vaughan Williams Concerto disc. already look back to over 10 years of But although a fourth record was recording — he made his first record made — Cello Concertos by Haydn, The Philips record is unashamedly ££2 when he was fresh out of college, an with the English Chamber Orchestra aimed at a crossover audience. It educational album for Discourses — which was thought to be the consists mainly of arrangements of which, amazingly, is still available. beginning of a new contact, RCA's works such as the Pizzicato Polka, whole classical operation in the UK Debussy's Golliwog Cakewalk, the Si iSprr^ began to founder. Flight of the Bumble Bee, Albinoni's I This left the most well-known of Adagio Grainger's Londonderry Air Modern young English cellists without a and Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance. From that curious beginning there company, while others such as Interestingly, it also contains the has rarely been a time when Lloyd Robert Cohen, who was settling well premiere recording of a piece by his Webber was not about to go into a into EMI, were forging steadily- father, WS Lloyd Webber, for many studio, or when a record was not ahead. years the principal of the London about to come out. But the This, then, is why Lloyd Webber College of Music, called Andante ZENO, THE German rock band, has agreed a worldwide publishing deal with companies have been numerous. would now like to rationalise his Impetuoso and Saint-Saens' Le Warner Brothers Music. Celebrating the event are, from left, Zeno manager He made an album of modern recording work — but he admits to Cygne, which Julian originally Dave Corke, John Hinch, Ule Ritgen, Zean Roth IZenol, WB Music genera! being cautious. "If an artist gives a recorded for Enigma. manager Robin Godfrey-Cass and WB Music MD Peter Reichardt. British music — by Fricker, Dalby, tremendous amount to his recording The record continues McCade and Lennox Berkeley for work, he must be sure that he has developing relationship with the L'Oiseaux Lyre, two records for English Chamber Orchestra, — Lyrita, including Bridge's Oration faith in the company — that they MCPS adds Brampton and Ireland's Piano Trios, and then know what they are doing," he says. together they have given a number discs for Enigma, beginning with the "I am now very wary in saying to of concerts recently, and make a any company 'you can have every- further appearance at the Queen successful The Romantic Cello. Elizabeth Hall on June 1 when Lloyd five to board ties up He found himself working for thing I do' — in a way, I feel the THE MECHANICAL Copyright Pro- WEA when the company took over companies have a little bit to prove Webber plays Schumann's Cello to me. 1 didn't know that RCA was Concerto. But whether the record tection Society has enlarged its John Boyden's Enigma and when will be successful and be just the board by five additional members as Borderline the label died he moved to Unicorn going to close down its classical an interim measure following the operation — I am mystified why start of a long-term relationship bet- BRAMPTON MUSIC has acquired to make two records, the Caprice nothing was said to me. ween Lloyd Webber and Philips recent proposition of a merger bet- and Elegy for the Fenby Legacy and remains to be seen. ween the MCPS and the Mechanical the UK publishing rights for Border- the Delius Sonata. "But I am very glad to be a bit Rights Society and the reaction line and Physical Attraction, the against the idea of a substantial follow-up to Madonna's Holiday and number of MRS members [MW Lucky Star. March 31). Both songs were penned and Appointments The new members of the MCPS produced by Reggie Lucas, with The last of Ludwig board are Richard Toeman (Josef whom Brampton has enjoyed Weinberger), Len Thorpe (Chappell previous success with Never Knew reflect growth THE LINDSAY String Quartet, which is currently recording all Beethoven's Music and MRS chairman), and Love Like This Before, Young Free String Quartets for ASV, is presenting one of the largest festivals of Beet- songwriters Peter Callender, Keith And Single and Juicy Fruit, which hoven's chamber music ever to be mounted in the UK between May 20 and Mansfield and Graham Whettam, Lucas penned with former partner at Conifer June 3, at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield. who is also on the Copyright Mtume. AS PART of its expansion policy To coincide with this mammoth event, ASV is issuing the last set of Beet- Council. Brampton also publishes after the recent additions to its labels hoven recordings from the Lindsay — the Middle Period Quartets, a While this enlargement of the Emergency (Dial 999) by Loose Ends of Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and 3LP/cassette set containing Opus 59, 74, 95 (ALH 3071. MCPS board is likely to placate MRS in a co-publishing deal with Virgin Teldec, Conifer has two new And ASV is also releasing another quartet record this month, the E minor members opposed to a merger bet- Music. The Loose Ends album con- appointments, Quartet by Elgar, and the 1916 Quartet by Delius, played by the Brodsky ween the two bodies, opinion is taining eight Brampton/Virgin copy- John Kehoe, previously inter- Quartet, the resident quartet at Sutton Place, Surrey (DCA 536 and on growing that such a merger will rights has also charted, and a US national promotions manager, cassette). eventually be inevitable. release is being negotiated. Decca, takes charge of classical In addition, the company is issuing the second of its piano recital discs by marketing as well as becoming the master pianist Shura Cherkassky — Cherkassky In Concert, playing classical product manager. He will Brahms and Schubert IAIH 948 and on cassette); and continues its Beautiful Chappell opts for merchandise look after artist promotions, sales Music popular mid-price series with Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade (ABM promotions, advertising and radio 762R and on cassette). NEW YORK; A merchandising division has been formed here by Chappell/ promotions with a view to Intersong, and is claimed to be the first of its kind in the music publishing developing clear label identities for world.

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