{"product_id":"casals-bach-suites-for-solo-cello-1936-39-pacm074","title":"CASALS Bach: Suites for Solo Cello (1936-39) - PACM074","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBACH \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSuites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007-1012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded 1936-39\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 9:56\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePablo Casals, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ecello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fGramophone Historic Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fIn these really splendid recordings, we have, if at one remove, the finest fruits of his great art.578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eThe\nsixth and seventh volumes of the Bach Society, which was formed by\nH.M.V. in 1934, contained the first, second, third and sixth Suites for\nvioloncello and this new volume, postponed for issue until now on\naccount of the war, completes the Series with the fourth and fifth\nSuites. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fred Gaisberg tells us in his book, \" Music on\nRecord,\" that Casals, at the age of thirteen, picked up a volume of the\nBach Suites in a music shop while looking round for some pieces to\nenlarge his repertoire. He was then playing in a restaurant and had\npersuaded the proprietor to devote one evening to chamber music. In\nlater years Casals was, Mr. Gaisberg says, \"the first of all\ninstrumentalists to play an entire Bach Suite at a public concert \"—a\nquite common occurrence to-day—and it was the Suite in B flat major, No.\n4, that he once played to an audience of many thousands at the Albert\nHall. It is to Mr. Gaisberg that we owe, amongst so much else, these\nmagnificent records of a performance that perhaps has never been and now\ncertainly could not be equalled anywhere in the world. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One\ncan only guess at the immense labour and self-discipline that lay\nbetween the day when Casals first saw this music and his eventual\nmastery of it. I should be sorry to think that these records might only\ncome into the hands of 'cellists, for whom their acquisition is a\nforegone conclusion, and be avoided as a kind of caviare by the ordinary\nmusic lover. I would beg him, or her, to try, as samples, the Courante\nof the fourth Suite or the Prelude of the fifth. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This music,\nrelying, except very occasionally, on the single melodic line (for\nharmony is rare) is a grand antidote if one has been soaking in\nluxuriant harmony or become conditioned to short-breathed melody. It is a\ndiscipline to listen—and it means genuine and concentrated listening—to\nthis music : but the feeling of it being a discipline soon gives way to\na sense of exhilaration and musical well-being. The Prelude of the\nfourth Suite, for example, begins like a technical exercise but this is\narrested by a pause after which, as Professor Westrup says in his\nexcellent notes, \"the music acquires an unexpected eloquence.\" The\nSarabandes in both Suites are of great beauty, the first being dominated\nby a dotted rhythm which Casals makes amazingly expressive. Above the\nSarabandes of the other Suite, a simple melodic line with a falling\ncadence very characteristic of Bach, there seems to hover another tune\nwhich we hear only in our mind's ear. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But each movement has\nits special beauties and one can no more describe these than the superb\nplaying which brings the music to life. The light and shade, the use of\nrubato, technical things such as these are applied with magical skill\nbut it is the end to which they are applied that so deeply affects one,\nthe noble expression of this highly wrought and noble music. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\nListening to these records, and especially to the fifth Suite, which is\nperhaps the finest of all, one realises afresh what our musical life has\nlost by Casals' refusal to play in this country but at least, in these\nreally splendid recordings, we have, if at one remove, the finest fruits\nof his great art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eThe Gramophone, August 1948, on Suites 4 \u0026amp; 5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM074.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCasals' finest recordings as never heard before\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eXR remastering strips away the decades to reveal incredible detail and nuance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen one considers all of the recordings made in the\npost-1925 electrical recording era, but before the development of full\nfrequency range recordings in the 1940s, there can be few instruments\nmore suited to the restrictions of the technology at the time than the\ncello. The range of frequencies required to capture it well, thanks to\nits low register, generally falls within the capabilities of 1930 disc\nrecording, and this makes it a prime candidate for XR remastering. I've\nalready had considerable success with Casals - his 1938 recording of the\nDvorák Cello Concerto (PASC 246) beat all others, old and new, to\nbecome Gramophone's recommended recording of the work in February 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, nothing prepared me for the possibilities lying\nhidden in the grooves of his Cello Suites recordings of 1936 to 1939,\nwhich have surpassed all expectations. I was already familiar with\nissues on both EMI and Naxos (the latter a considerable improvement on\nthe former), but neither offers the listener the full-bodied tone of\nCasals' cello, the crispness of his sound, the sense of immediacy and\nclarity which lay hidden in these recordings for so many decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy first task was to take the disparate recordings and\nbring some homogeneity to the sound of the instrument - each suite was\ninitially processed separately, using a common reference in order to\niron out differences in the recording equipment and locations used\nduring the recording sessions. Thereafter I brought them together to\ncontinue what was at times a tricky restoration - revealing so much\nmusical detail also reveals much else that is unwanted. Occasionally\nthis may still be heard, but it should not distract you from one of the\nmost remarkable restorations it has been my pleasure to undertake.\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBACH \u003c\/b\u003eSuites for Solo Cello, BVW 1007-1012\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuite 1: Paris, 2 June 1938, Eng. 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