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2013-06-18 10:42:00
Will Pablo Casals be trending this autumn?
[…] single mention of Britten in Pablo Casals' autobiographical Joys and Sorrows or Robert Baldock's biography of the cellist, and Humphrey Carpenter's definitive biography of Britten reciprocates with no mention of Casals. Today Britten is hailed as a progressive while Casals is dismissed as an unfashionable reactionary, which is both unfair and wrong. Casals once declared that "All great artists are innovators", and in the 1920s he programmed much contemporary music with his own Orquestra Pau Casals in Barcelona. In addition to Catalan composers such as Juli Garreta, Enrique Granados, Isaac Albéniz, Lluís Millet, Gaspar Cassadó, Enric Morera and Roberto Gerhard the concerts included works by Bartók, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Milhaud, Kodály, Prokofiev, Webern, Honegger, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Although Casals was not a fan of twelve-tone music, Schoenberg was invited to conduct a programme of his own compositions with the Orquestra Pau Casals. Schoenberg went on to create a […]
2012-05-25 11:02:00
Pablo Casals' Wagner dream
[…] the first Paris concert performance of Tristan, and in 1926 he recorded transcriptions for cello and piano from Die Meistersinger and Tannhäuser in America; these were reissued on CD in Music Memoria's Casals, the Victor Recordings in the 1990s. Because of his advocacy of the stylistically conservative El Pessebre in his later years, Casals is often portrayed as a musical reactionary. But this view is contradicted by the repertoire he programmed with his own Orquestra Pau Casals in Barcelona in the 1920s. In addition to now largely forgotten Catalan composers such as Garreta, Granados, Albéniz, Millet, Cassadó, Enric Morera and Roberto Gerhard the concerts included works by Bartók, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Milhaud, Kodály, Prokofiev, Webern, Honegger, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Although Casals was not a fan of twelve-tone music, Schoenberg was invited to conduct a programme of his own compositions with the Orquestra Pau Casals. Schoenberg also adapted a Cello […]
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