Label: WARNER CLASSICS (EMI) Catalog: EMC94932.2 Format: CD
Pablo Casals: cello
CD 1-2 - J.S. Bach: Cello Suites 1-6
CD 3-4 - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas 1-5 / Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2
CD 5 - Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Elgar: Cello Concerto / Bruch: Kol Nidrei
CD 6 - Beethoven: Piano Trio No.7 "Archduke" / Schubert: Piano Trio No.1 D898
CD 7 - Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1, Op.49 / Schumann: Piano Trio No.1, Op.63
CD 8 - Haydn: Piano Trio in G Hob.XV:25 Op.73 No.2 / Brahms: Double Concerto / Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B flat
CD 9 - Encores and Showpieces / Sardanes de cobla
2010 Gramophone Award Shortlist: Historic Reissue
The Catalan cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) was first to bring to wider notice the works that open this set, J.S. Bach's solo cello suites. Thereafter we hear his celebrated partnership with Horszowski in Beethoven and the groundbreaking piano trio formed with Thibaud and Cortot in Haydn, Beethoven, Dvorak (with George Szell) and Elgar (Adrian Boult). Finally, an enchanting disc of encores and - with Casal's own street-band or cobla - seven examples of the sardana, the national dance of the great artist's beloved homeland.
