Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928
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Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928
Music Price: $10.98
As of Jan 9 20:44 EST (details)
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| Studio | RCA |
| Release Date | December 13, 1994 |
| UPC Code | 090266161621 |
| Buy this item | $10.98 at Amazon.com
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About Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928
These early electrical recordings show a very different Pablo Casals from the grunting old man most people remember. At the height of his technical and musical powers, he plays these mostly charming little encores and transcriptions with exquisite musicianship and breathtaking technical command that remains outstanding today. Whether you want to hear Chopin piano pieces or Wagner arias played on the cello is another issue; there is very little real cello music on this disc. But for what is here, one could hardly imagine better performances. The transfers are outstandingly lifelike, the program very generous (76:19), the price reasonable. --Leslie Gerber Amazon.com
Tracks
- Adagio
- No 2 (No 2 of Op 9) in E flat major
- No 1 (arr for cello & piano by Pablo Casals)
- Spanish Dance, No. 5
- Le Cygne
- Act 2, Berceuse (Lullaby)
- No 3 in G major
- Lied Au Den Abendstern/Evening Star
- Act 3 Preislied
- No 12, "Abendlied"
- No 3, Menuet
- Musette: Gavotte I
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User Reviews
Average user review: 
(5 reviews)
 |  | Pablo Casals: Early Recrdings, a defective product |  |
The Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928 is a fine recording with a production defect. The playing is obviously great but near the end of the CD numerous tracks are missing. I returned the CD and was sent a replacement that had the same defect indicating that there was a production error.
March 8, 2007I can't buy it in the Austerlia,and it is a good recording. I like it.
October 9, 2005 | | Amazing touch of personality | |
This album is perhaps one of my favorite. It features Pablo playing some very romantic and melancholic songs from various composers. It also features Pablo's amazing technique and his capacity of interpretation which gies beyond just reading and playing musical notes.
But also, the fact that this album was recorded so long ago, the original format was gramophone, I think it gives this album very important historical value, the background noise never interrupts the musics, but help listeners to get involved and place himself in the timeline.
January 25, 2005funny, I hear plenty of "real" music coming from this CD ;)
October 20, 2003This recording is for anyone who has dismissed Casals as an ancient cellist who never truly mastered the technique of the instrument. These works are all admittedly light fluff, but Casals is truly dazzling, as both a technical virtuoso and a true musician. This is worth owning if you're a cellist or a Casals fan, but the low quality of the actual compositions should keep everyone else away.
April 6, 2002More reviews at Amazon.com ...
