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

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Details

Composer
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN
Artist
Pablo, Casals
Format
CD
Label
Sony Masterworks
Released
Dec 29, 2011
Catalog #
SONY66572
UPC
074646657225

About

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

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio - II. Allegro ma non tanto 08:07
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - II. Allegro ma non tanto
    Duration
    08:07
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  2. 2 III. Andante 03:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  3. 3 IV. Allegro moderato 03:24
    Track
    3
    Title
    IV. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  4. 4 I. Adagio - II. Allegro 06:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Adagio - II. Allegro
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  5. 5 III. Andante 06:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    06:42
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  6. 6 IV. Allegro 04:14
    Track
    6
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  7. 7 I. Vivace 06:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Vivace
    Duration
    06:15
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  8. 8 II. Adagio 06:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  9. 9 III. Allegro 04:47
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner
  10. 10 I. Allegro 07:02
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:02
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg
    Ensemble
    Prades Festival Orchestra
    Conductor
    Pablo Casals
  11. 11 II. Andante 03:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg
    Ensemble
    Prades Festival Orchestra
    Conductor
    Pablo Casals
  12. 12 III. Presto 05:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg
    Ensemble
    Prades Festival Orchestra
    Conductor
    Pablo Casals