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Julian Bream
Julian Alexander Bream[1] CBE (15 July 1933  – 14 August
Julian Bream
2020) was a British classical guitarist and lutenist.[2] Regarded as
one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th
century,[3] he played a significant role in improving the public
perception of the classical guitar as a respectable instrument.
Over the course of a career that spanned more than half a
century, Bream helped revive interest in the lute.[4]

Contents
Early years
Career
Bream in 1989
Later career
Background information
Style and influences
Birth name Julian Alexander
Recordings Bream
Television and video Born 15 July 1933
Dedications and collaborations Battersea, London,
Personal life England

Pieces written for Bream Died 14 August 2020

(aged 87)
Awards and recognitions
Donhead St
Discography Andrew, Wiltshire,
LPs
England
CDs
Genres Classical
References
Occupation(s) Musician
Sources
Instruments Guitar, lute
External links
Labels RCA Victor, EMI

Early years
Bream was born in Battersea, London, England,[5] to Henry and Violet Jessie (née Wright) Bream.[6]
At the age of two he moved with his family to Hampton in London, where he was brought up in a
musical environment.[7] His father was a commercial artist and an amateur jazz guitarist, who was
unable to read music but had a finely attuned ear and could play a lot of popular music.[6][8] His
mother, a homemaker of Scottish descent,[5] had a warm and loving personality, but was deaf to the
beauty of musical sound.[8] His parents divorced when he was 14.[6] His grandmother owned a pub in
Battersea, and Bream spent much time there during his youth. The young Bream was impressed by
the playing of Django Reinhardt; he would later name his dog "Django". Bream played the piano and
cello as a child and Reinhardt inspired Bream to also take up guitar. [3]

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Bream began his lifelong association with the guitar by strumming along on his father's jazz guitar at
an early age to dance music on the radio. He became frustrated with his lack of knowledge of jazz
harmony, so read instruction books by Eddie Lang to teach himself.[9] His father taught him the
basics. The president of the Philharmonic Society of Guitarists, Boris Perott, gave Bream further
lessons,[5] while his father became the society librarian, giving young Bream access to a large
collection of rare music.

On his 11th birthday, Bream was given a small gut-strung Spanish guitar by his father.[5][4] He
became something of a child prodigy, at 12 winning a junior exhibition award for his piano playing,
enabling him to study piano and composition at the Royal College of Music.[10] Aged 13, he made his
debut guitar recital at Cheltenham on 17 February 1947;[11] in 1951, he debuted at Wigmore Hall.[10]

Bream's father had reservations about him pursuing classical guitar. He claimed Bream would find it
difficult to earn a livelihood unless he played jazz or something similarly modern. His father's
remarks made Bream more persistent and committed to becoming a professional classical guitarist.
Bream played the guitar first, then the piano for his audition at the Royal College of Music, even
though the guitar was not taught at the institution at the time. When the college accepted Bream, he
was advised not to bring his guitar. Bream brought along his guitar regardless as he played for late-
night performances. When the school's director discovered he was playing the guitar in one of the
school's practice rooms, Bream was asked again to leave his guitar at home. Bream's response to the
request was to leave the college.[6]

Leaving the RCM in 1952, Bream was called up into the army for national service.[10] He was
originally drafted into the Pay Corps, but managed to sign up for the Royal Artillery Band after six
months. This required him to be stationed in Woolwich, which allowed him to moonlight regularly in
London with the guitar.[10]

Career
After three and half years in the army, he took any musical jobs
that came his way, including background music for radio plays
and films.[6] Recording sessions and work for the BBC were
important to Bream throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s.[6]
He played part of a recital at the Wigmore Hall on the lute in
1952.[12] Bream pursued a busy career playing around the world.
His first European tours took place in 1954 and 1955, followed
(beginning in 1958) by extensive touring in the Far East, India,
Australia, the Pacific Islands and many other parts of the world.
His first North America tour was in 1959.[13] 1960 saw the
formation of the Julian Bream Consort, a period-instrument
ensemble with Bream as lutenist.[5] The consort led a great
revival of interest in the music of the Elizabethan era.[14] In 1963,
Bream performed for the Peabody Mason Concert series in
Bream in 1964 Boston with the US debut of his Consort.[15]

In addition to master classes, Bream was tutor of the music

summer school at Dartington.[16][5]

Later career
In 1984, Bream seriously injured his right arm in a car accident.[3][6]

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In 1991, BBC Radio and TV broadcast Bream's BBC Prom

performance of Malcolm Arnold's Guitar Concerto.[17] He also
participated in a recital and concerto performances of works by
Toru Takemitsu at the Japan Festival in London with the London
Symphony Orchestra.[18]

During the 1992–93 season he performed on two occasions at the

Wigmore Hall – at their Gala Re-opening Festival, and at a
special concert celebrating his 60th birthday. In the same period,
he toured the Far East, visiting Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and
Bream (right) in Liechtenstein in
Japan, and performed the premiere of Leo Brouwer's 1985
arrangement for guitar and orchestra of Albéniz's Iberia at the
Proms. In 1994 Bream made debuts in both Turkey and Israel to
great acclaim, and the following year played for the soundtrack to the Hollywood film Don Juan
DeMarco.[18]

In 1997, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of his debut, he performed a recital at Cheltenham
Town Hall. A few weeks later, the BBC dedicated a television tribute This Is Your Life programme to
Bream, filmed after a commemorative concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.[18][5]

Other engagements around that time included a gala solo performance at the Philharmonic Hall,
Liverpool; a Kosovo Aid concert at St. John's, Smith Square, London, with the Academy of St. Martin
in the Fields; recitals at the Snape Proms, Aldeburgh, and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival; and a
tour of National Trust properties in summer and autumn 2000.[18]

In November 2001 he gave an anniversary recital at Wigmore Hall, celebrating 50 years since his
debut there in 1951.[18] His final recital was at Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, on 6 May 2002.[11][6]

Style and influences

Bream's recitals were wide-ranging, including transcriptions from the 17th century, many pieces by
Bach arranged for guitar, popular Spanish pieces, and contemporary music, for much of which he was
the inspiration. He stated that he was influenced by the styles of Andrés Segovia and Francisco
Tárrega.[19] Bream had some "sessions" with Segovia but did not actually study with him.[5] Segovia
provided a personal endorsement and scholarship request to assist Bream in taking further formal
music studies.[20] Bream's work showed that the guitar could be capably utilized in English, French,
and German music.[6]

Bream's playing can be characterised as virtuosic and highly expressive, with an eye for details, and
with strong use of contrasting timbres. He did not consistently hold his right-hand fingers at right
angles to the strings, but used a less rigid hand position for tonal variety.[21]

Bream met Igor Stravinsky in Toronto, Canada, in 1965. He tried unsuccessfully to persuade the
composer to write a composition for the lute and played a pavane by Dowland for him. The meeting
between Bream and Stravinsky, including Bream's impromptu playing, was filmed by the National
Film Board of Canada in making a documentary about the composer.[22]

Recordings
Bream recorded extensively for RCA Victor and EMI Classics. These recordings won him several
awards, including four Grammy Awards, two for Best Chamber Music Performance and two for Best
Classical Performance.[23] RCA also released The Ultimate Guitar Collection, a multi-CD set
commemorating his birthday in 1993.[5][24]

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Despite his importance as a classical guitarist, however, many of his RCA recordings (including the
series of 20th-century guitar music) were out of print for several years. In 2011, RCA released My
Favorite Albums, a 10-CD set of albums chosen by Julian Bream himself.[25] In 2013, RCA issued
Julian Bream: The Complete RCA Album Collection, a 40-CD set which also includes two DVDs with
The Lively Arts – Julian Bream: A Life in the Country, the 1976 BBC film; and four BBC shows:
Omnibus: Anniversary of Sir William Walton [1982], The Julian Bream Consort (1961), Monitor –
Film Profile of Julian Bream [1962], and The Julian Bream Consort (1964).[26]

Television and video

A film, A Life in the Country, was first shown on BBC TV in 1976.[27] In it, the narrator and Bream
discuss his beginnings and his life as a concert guitarist. Bream also presented a series of four master-
classes for guitarists on BBC TV.[28]

In 1984 he made eight film segments on location in Spain for Channel 4. The collection of segments
¡Guitarra! A Musical Journey Through Spain explored historical perspectives of Spanish guitar
music.[29][30][31]

The 2003 DVD video profile Julian Bream: My Life in Music contains three hours of interviews and
performances. It has been declared by Graham Wade "the finest film contribution ever to the classic
guitar" and it became "Gramophone DVD of the year".[32][33]

Dedications and collaborations

Many composers worked with Bream, and among those who dedicated pieces to him were Malcolm
Arnold, Richard Rodney Bennett, Benjamin Britten, Leo Brouwer, Peter Racine Fricker, Hans Werner
Henze, Humphrey Searle, Toru Takemitsu, Michael Tippett, William Walton and Peter Maxwell
Davies. Britten's Nocturnal is one of the most famous pieces in the classical guitar repertoire and was
written with Bream specifically in mind.[34] It is an unusual set of variations on John Dowland's
"Come, Heavy Sleep" (which is played in its original form at the close of the piece).[4]

Bream also took part in many collaborations, including work with Peter Pears on Elizabethan music
for lute and voice,[35][19][5] and three records of guitar duets with John Williams.[9]

Personal life
Bream's first wife was Margaret, daughter of the writer Henry Williamson,[36] with whom he adopted
a son. After their divorce he married Isabel Sanchez in 1980.[37][6] That marriage also ended in
divorce.[4][6]

He lived for over forty years at Semley, Wiltshire, at first dividing his time between there and
Chiswick, London, then moving permanently in 1966 to a Georgian farmhouse in Semley, living there
until 2008.[38] In 2009 he moved to a smaller house at Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire.[39] Bream was
keen on the game of cricket[10] and was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club.[5]

Bream died on 14 August 2020, at his home at Donhead St Andrew, at the age of 87.[40]

Pieces written for Bream

Several compositions were written for Bream, including:[41]

Reginald Smith Brindle: Nocturne for Guitar Solo (1946)

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Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina, op. 52, no. 1 (1957)

Britten: Songs from the Chinese for high voice and guitar, Op. 58 (1957)
Hans Werner Henze: Drei Tentos (Kammermusik 1958)
Denis ApIvor: Variations for Guitar, Op. 29 (1958)
Tristram Cary: Sonata (1959)
Malcolm Arnold: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra, op. 67 (1959)
Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70 (1963)
Richard Rodney Bennett: Impromptus'(1968)
Tom Eastwood: Ballade-Phantasy (1968)
Peter Racine Fricker: Paseo (1969)
Reginald Smith Brindle: Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach (1970)
Richard Rodney Bennett: Guitar Concerto (1970)
Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy, op. 107 (1971)
Alan Rawsthorne: Elegy (1971)
William Walton: Five Bagatelles (1972)
David Lord: Soliloquy (1973)
Humphrey Searle: Five (1974)
Lennox Berkeley: Guitar Concerto, Op. 88 (1974)
Henze: Royal Winter Music (first sonata, 1976)
Giles Swayne: Suite, Op. 21 (1976)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Hill Runes (1981)
Michael Berkeley: Sonata in One Movement (1982)
Richard Rodney Bennett: Sonata (1983)
Michael Tippett: The Blue Guitar (1984)
Giles Swayne: Solo for Guitar (1986)
Leo Brouwer: Concerto elegiaco (Guitar Concerto No. 3) (1986)
Toru Takemitsu: All in Twilight (1987)
Leo Brouwer: Sonata (1990)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Sonata (1990)
Toru Takemitsu: Muir Woods (In the Woods) (1996)
Harrison Birtwistle: Construction with Guitar Player: Beyond the White Hand (2013)
(Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust)
Leo Brouwer: Ars Combinatoria (Sonata No. 5) (2013) (commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust)

Awards and recognitions

1964: Officer of the Order of the British Empire[2]
1964: Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1964 for
Evening of Elizabethan Music performed by the Julian Bream Consort[23]
1966: Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music[18]
1967: Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or
without orchestra) at the Grammy Awards of 1967 for Baroque Guitar (Works of Bach, Sanz,
Weiss, etc.)[23]
1968: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Surrey[42]
1968: Edison Award[43]
1972: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) at the
Grammy Awards of 1972 for André Previn (conductor), Julian Bream & the London Symphony
Orchestra for Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Guitar[23]
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1973: Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1973 for
Julian Bream & John Williams for Julian and John (Works by Lawes, Carulli, Albéniz,
Granados)[23]
1974: Edison Award[43]
1976: Villa-Lobos Gold Medal (presented by the composer's widow)[5]
1981: Fellowship of the Royal College of Music[2]
1983: Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music[2]
1984: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leeds[2]
1985: Commander of the Order of the British Empire[2]
1988: Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society[18]
1996: Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist's Award[44]
1999: Doctor of Philosophy from London Guildhall University[45]
2009: Honorary Doctorate from the Open University[46]
2013: Gramophone Classical Music Awards – Lifetime Achievement[37][47][3]

Discography

LPs

Recordings by Bream include:[48]

The Art Of Julian Bream (November 1960), RCA Victor LSC-2448

Guitar Concertos (January 1961), RCA Victor LSC-2487
The Golden Age of English Lute Music (September 1961), RCA Victor LDS-2560
An Evening Of Elizabethan Music (1963), RCA Victor LDS-2656 (reissued March 1971 as LSC-
3195)
Julian Bream: Rodrigo, Vivaldi Concertos, Britten Dances from "Gloriana" (1964), RCA Victor
LSC-2730
20th Century Guitar, RCA Victor LSC-2964
70's, RCA ARL1-0049
Dedication, RCA ARL1-5034
Julian Bream Plays Dowland, CLP 1726
A Bach Recital for the Guitar, Westminster CLP 1929
Baroque Guitar (1966), RCA
The Classical Guitar (3 – LP set), Westminster WMS −1029
Collection of the Greatest Performances of Julian Bream, Vol. II, Westminster
Concertos for Lute and Orchestra, RCA ARL1-1180
Dances of Dowland, RCA LSC-2987
Elizabethan Lute Songs, RCA LSC-3131
Elizabethan Music by The Julian Bream Consort, RCA LSC-3195
The Golden Age of English Lute Music, RCA LSC-3196 RCA LD-2560
J.S. Bach Lute Suites Nos. 1 and 2 (1966), RCA LSC-2896
Julian & John, 1972 RCA LSC-3257
Julian & John/2, 1974 RCA ARL1-0456
Julian Bream's Greatest Hits, Westminster
Julian Bream's Greatest Hits Volume Two, Westminster 9008-8185
Lute Music of John Dowland, RCA ARL1-1491
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John Dowland: 14 Lute Pieces, Westminster W-9079

Music for Voice and Guitar with Peter Pears, RCA LSC-2718
Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar, RCA
Rodrigo: Concerto De Aranjuez, Berkeley Guitar Concerto (1975), RCA
Sonatas for Lute and Harpsichord—Bach, Vivaldi with George Malcolm, RCA LSC-3100
Villa-Lobos, Twelve Etudes for Guitar, Suite populaire bresillienne (1978), RCA
Julian Bream, The Art of the Spanish Guitar (1970) RCA SRS 3002
The Woods So Wild, RCA LSC-3331
¡Guitarra!: The Guitar in Spain (1985), RCA (contains material not on the CD)

CDs
Fret Works (1990), MCA ASIN B00000DWBQ (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000DWBQ)
Guitarra: The Guitar in Spain (1990), RCA ASIN B000003EOU (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00
0003EOU)
Joaquin Rodrigo: Concerto Elegiaco/Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre (1990), RCA
ASIN B00000E6E7 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000E6E7)
Julian Bream plays Bach (1990), RCA ASIN B000003EOG (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003
EOG)
Julian Bream Plays Granados & Albéniz (Music of Spain, Volume Five) (1990), RCA
ASIN B00000E68D (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000E68D)
Music of Spain, Vol. 7 (1990), RCA ASIN B00000E697 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000E69
7)
Two Loves with Peggy Ashcroft (1990), RCA ASIN B00000E6FM (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0
0000E6FM)
Baroque Guitar (1991), RCA ASIN B000003F1J (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003F1J)
La Guitarra Romantica (1991), RCA ASIN B000003F0G (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003F0
G)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Villa-Lobos: Preludes (1991), RCA ASIN B000003EPS (https://w
ww.amazon.com/dp/B000003EPS)
Romantic Guitar (1991), RCA ASIN B000003EQA (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003EQA)
Baroque Guitar (1993), RCA ASIN B000025HGT (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000025HGT)
A Celebration of Andrés Segovia—Bream (1993), RCA ASIN B000009JN3 (https://www.amazon.c
om/dp/B000009JN3)
Highlights from the Julian Bream Edition (1993), RCA ASIN B000003FKP (https://www.amazon.co
m/dp/B000003FKP)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre No1-5 (1993), RCA
ASIN B000003FI4 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FI4)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream with Simon Rattle and the City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1993), Capitol ASIN B00000DNS6 (https://www.amazon.co
m/dp/B00000DNS6)
Together/Julian Bream & John Williams (1993), RCA ASIN B000003FDM (https://www.amazon.co
m/dp/B000003FDM)
Together Again/ Julian Bream & John Williams (1993), RCA ASIN B000003FDN (https://www.ama
zon.com/dp/B000003FDN)
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto; Preludes; Etudes with André Previn and the London Symphony
Orchestra (1993), BMG International ASIN B000024RKH (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000024R
KH)
Bach Guitar Recital (1994), EMI Classics ASIN B000002RU9 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000
02RU9)

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Bach: Lute Suites, Trio Sonatas (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FG2 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0

00003FG2)
Guitar Concertos (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FG4 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FG4)
Julian Bream Consort, Vol. 6 (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FFX (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000
003FFX)
Music of Spain (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FG6 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FG6)
Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FFY (https://www.amazon.com/d
p/B000003FFY)
Romantic Guitar (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FFZ (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FFZ)
Sonata (1995), Angel ASIN B000002RUX (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000002RUX)
20th Century Guitar I (1996), RCA ASIN B000003FG0 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FG
0)
The Golden Age of English Lute Music (1996), RCA ASIN B000003FFW (https://www.amazon.co
m/dp/B000003FFW)
Music for Voice & Guitar (1996), RCA ASIN B000003FG1 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003
FG1)
Music of Spain: Milán, Narváez (1996), RCA ASIN B000003FG5 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0
00003FG5)
Popular Classics for the Spanish Guitar (1997), RCA ASIN B000003G9U (https://www.amazon.co
m/dp/B000003G9U)
Julian Bream Edition, Volume 1: The Golden Age of English Lute Music (28 CDs) (1998), RCA
ASIN B000003FFV (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FFV)
The Romantic Hours (1998), RCA ASIN B000003FSG (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FS
G)
Spain—Sor, Vol. 24 (1998), BMG Classics ASIN B000025HGH (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00
0025HGH)
Guitar Concertos (1999), RCA ASIN B00000HZS3 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000HZS3)
Guitar Music by Albeniz, Vivaldi, Rodrigo & Grandos (2 CDs) (1999), RCA Classics/BMG
ASIN B00002DFHV (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00002DFHV)
Woods So Wild (1999), RCA ASIN B00000HZS6 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000HZS6)
Nocturnal: Martin, Britten, Brouwer, Lutoslavski (2000), EMI ASIN B000002RTP (https://www.ama
zon.com/dp/B000002RTP)
The Ultimate Guitar Collection (2 CDs) (2000), RCA ASIN B00004UEH6 (https://www.amazon.co
m/dp/B00004UEH6)
Duos de Guitares with John Williams (2001), RCA ASIN B00005I9SO (https://www.amazon.com/d
p/B00005I9SO)
Spanish Guitar Music (remastered) (2001), Deutsche Grammophon ASIN B00005OLDN (https://w
ww.amazon.com/dp/B00005OLDN)
Spanish Guitar Recital (2001), RCA ASIN B00005OC01 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005OC
01)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre; Tres piezas espanolas;
invocacion y danza (remastered) (2004), RCA ASIN B0002DD67Y (https://www.amazon.com/dp/
B0002DD67Y)
Spanish Guitar Recital (2004), ASIN B000026GX4 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000026GX4)
Guitar Recital: Bach, Sor, Turina, Tippet, Schubert (2005), Testament ASIN B0009UC6L2 (https://
www.amazon.com/dp/B0009UC6L2)
Music of Spain (2005), RCA ASIN B0009U55QA (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009U55QA)
Elizabethan Lute Songs, Decca ASIN B000ICGD06 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ICGD06)
Julian Bream & Friends, Musical Heritage Society ASIN B000294GJK (https://www.amazon.com/d
p/B000294GJK)

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Lute Music from the Royal Courts of Europe, BMG Classics ASIN B000G27DIO (https://www.ama
zon.com/dp/B000G27DIO)
Music of Spain: The Classical Heritage, RCA ASIN B0001GH54C (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B
0001GH54C)
My Favorite Albums, RCA/Sony Classical ASIN B001DD0HPG (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00
1DD0HPG)

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External links
Biography (http://www.julianbreamguitar.com/biography.html) at julianbreamguitar.com
Julian Bream (https://www.myspace.com/breamjulian) at myspace.com
Biography (https://web.archive.org/web/20150721114329/http://www.hazardchase.co.uk/artists/juli
an-bream/) at hazardchase.co.uk (Archive)
Interview (https://www.gramophone.co.uk/other/article/julian-bream-interview) at
gramophone.co.uk
LP covers (https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/IGRA-notes/id/1276/) at Oviatt
Library Digital Collections
Julian Bream (https://www.discogs.com/artist/Julian+Bream) discography at Discogs
Julian Bream (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106438/) on IMDb
Portraits of Julian Bream (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp0510
1) at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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