{"product_id":"casals-plays-elgar-brahms-1926-1945-pasc648","title":"CASALS plays Elgar \u0026 Brahms (1926-1945) - PASC648","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eELGAR \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eCello Concerto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBRAHMS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eCello Sonata No. 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eplus music by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFauré, Godard, Granados, Saint-Saëns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1926-1945\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 72:42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePau Casals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, cello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMieczyslaw Horszowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNicolai Mednikov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBBC Symphony Orchestra \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSir Adrian Boult\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC648.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\"Pablo Casals is probably the most astonishing figure of any musician of our\nday, all the more astonishing because everything he achieves is so simple\nand is always naturally right; and it may be because he has the most\nsensitive ear possible, and he uses it all the time. But, of course, his\nalso very passionate nature, which he has entirely under control, is\nprobably, with his upbringing, the cause of his greatness. He is a most\ntypical Catalan, which must not be confused with Spaniards proper - they\nare as different as the Celts are from the Anglo-Saxons - and you must know\nthat the education there is all in the hands of the monks, who give their\npupils a complete training in Gregorian Music, which is a wonderful\nfoundation to any musical training. As a matter of fact, Casals wrote a\nnumber of choral works in his youth, and a cycle, called The Twelve Months,\nwhich I heard two summers ago when I was spending my holiday at Vendrell\n(Casals' native town near Tarragona), and which contains some lovely music.\nHe wanted to be a composer, and although he studied the violin first he was\nattracted towards the 'cello only because, when he saw one for the first\ntime at his father's house, he thought the shape of it was so fine! He does\nnot spend much time on practising the 'cello, but he learns everything\nmentally from the score. Conducting is really what he enjoys most, and,\napart from his work, what he likes best is to be at San Salvador by the sea\nsmoking his pipe after lunch at the little casino (only a cafe), where he\nplays games of \u003ci\u003etrezilio \u003c\/i\u003e(a most complicated card game) with his friends\nduring the holidays.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nI had the pleasure of spending a wonderful day there two years ago on the\noccasion of a fete that was given to Casals by the \"Commune,\" to which he\nhad presented a piece of ground on the sea front to be used for the\nnational dance - the \u003ci\u003eSardana\u003c\/i\u003e. Casals was at the height of happiness, all\nthe people there gathered on the new \"Place Publique,\" where the Cobla of\nBarcelona had assembled and was going to play the ritual music - for\nCatalans the \u003ci\u003eSardana \u003c\/i\u003eis almost a religious rite - it is the most\nreverential form of dancing I have watched; men dance it together with very\nserious expressions; women join in the happy circle as the dance goes on,\nand the whole effect is most impressive. As an expression of rhythm it is\nalso unequalled.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThis little snapshot I took just before the dance began shows Casals with\nhis two nieces-his violinist brother Enrique's children. Casals, who thinks\nalso a great deal of sport, has built a tennis court next to his villa, and\nas it is the only one for miles around, he allows anybody who likes to come\nand play on it. He himself used to play a very good game although he had so\nlittle training, but his head work was so strong that he always managed to\nscore. As he wrote on [\u003ci\u003ea\u003c\/i\u003e] photograph of the Trio taken years ago with the\nHungarian composer, Em. Moor, \"C'est moi qui gagne \" - which is Casals'\nreal motto.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAndré Mangeot\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, December 1927\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e(André Louis Mangeot (25 August 1883 – 11 September 1970) was a French-born violinist and impresario. He founded the International String Quartet in 1919, to which he invited the young John Barbirolli to become its cellist. This specialised in modern works, especially by young British composers. 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