Casals Edition - Bach: The Three Gamba Sonatas, Brandenburg No 4

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Sony Masterworks
Release Date
December 29, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN
    • PERFORMER
      Pablo, Casals
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 29, 2011
    • UPC
      074646657225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SONY66572
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Concertos
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - II. Allegro ma non tanto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    2. III. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    3. IV. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    4. I. Adagio - II. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    5. III. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    6. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    7. I. Vivace

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    8. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner

    10. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prades Festival Orchestra

      Performer: John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg

      Conductor: Pablo Casals

    11. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prades Festival Orchestra

      Performer: John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg

      Conductor: Pablo Casals

    12. III. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prades Festival Orchestra

      Performer: John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg

      Conductor: Pablo Casals


These performances from the inaugural 1950 Prades Festival are unforgettable. The Sonatas evince a grandeur and humanity that was quintessential Casals.

'The work of all artists stands as a symbol of human freedom; no one has enriched that freedom more signally than Pablo Casals'; President John Kennedy's tribute to the great Catalan cellist on the occasion of his fabled White House appearance in 1961 resounds eloquently across the decades in these reissues. A passionate antagonist of tyranny and injustice, Casals withdrew from public life in 1945, having settled in Prades as a refugee in 1939. His return to the concert stage during festivals at Prades and Perpignan between 1950 and 1966, was catalogued by inspirational performances originally mustered on mediocre-sounding Columbia LPs.

...[T]he Bach performances from the inaugural 1950 Prades event are unforgettable; Casals recorded these sonatas, written for viola da gamba with pianist Paul Baumgartner, and directed the Festival Orchestra in the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto. If the latter recalls inflated pre-war emasculations from the Busch ensemble and others, the Sonatas evince a grandeur and humanity that was quintessential Casals, and in uncommonly decent sound.

-- Michael Jameson, BBC Music Magazine