All Casals articles
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ReviewConcert review: Gemma Rosefield (cello) Tim Horton (piano)
Edward Bhesania hears the performance of Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and Casals at London’s Wigmore Hall on 13 April 2025
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Premium ❘ FeatureLaurence Lesser: the making of a cellist
Having recently celebrated his 85th birthday, cellist and pedagogue Laurence Lesser looks back on his formative influences and recalls some of the iconic 20th-century musicians he worked with
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ReviewDmitry Yablonsky: Catalan Cello Works
A Catalan tradition is brought to life by engaging performances
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ReviewBrodsky Quartet, Laura van der Heijden: Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores
A joyous jumble of encores from an ever-youthful quartet
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ReviewJohannes Moser: Alone Together
Multitracking brought to a new level of invention by this thoughtful cellist
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VideoSydney Suzuki students play in solidarity for Ukraine
The string ensemble performs the traditional Catalan ‘Song of the birds’
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ReviewConcert review: Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Tim Homfray watches the French cellist’s recital at London’s Wigmore Hall on 14 September 2021
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ReviewPablo Ferrández: Rachmaninoff, Falla, Granados, Casals
Soulful Spanish–Russian fusion in a highly successful mainstream debut
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ReviewChristian-Pierre La Marca: Cello 360
Imaginative and varied recital that takes in the gamut of solo cello repertoire
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ReviewTabea Zimmermann: Cantilena
Wordless songs transcribed for the viola with breathtaking beauty
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FocusIn focus: Pablo Casals' 1733 Goffriller cello
The cello on which Pablo Casals made his landmark recordings was for a long time believed to be by Bergonzi, writes Philip Kass
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ReviewDebut. Bloch: Prayer (arr. Shaw). Brahms: Cello Sonatas: no.1 in E minor op.38; no.2 in F major op.99. Britten: Solo Cello Suite no.3. Casals: Song of the Birds (arr. Shaw); Trad: A Brit in Denmark (a
The Strad Issue: April 2016Description: A quirky first recording for this Brit in DenmarkMusicians: Jacob Shaw (cello) José Gallardo (piano) Musicians from the Confucius InstituteComposer: Bloch; Brahms; Britten; Casals; Trad; De Wallensbourg; Wang LipingThis is a rather unusual recording debut. The first disc, of Brahms’s two cello ...
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ReviewPablo Casals: A Concert at the White House. Casals: El cant dels ocells. F. Couperin: Suite (arr. Bazelaire). Haydn: Piano Trio no.39 in G major ‘Gypsy Rondo’. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no.1 in D minor
The Strad Issue: November 2015Description: Casals, late in life, with illustrious friends playing for the KennedysMusicians: Pablo Casals (cello) Alexander Schneider, Jacques Thibaud (violin) Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Alfred Cortot (piano)Composer: Casals, F. Couperin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, SchumannThis is the famous concert at the White House on 13 November 1961, ...
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ArticleCellist Amit Peled performs Fauré's Papillon
Amit Peled performs Fauré's Papillon - a favourite encore piece of Pablo Casals - at the Heifetz International Music Institute on Casals' own 1733 Goffriller cello, presented to him by Casals' widow, Mrs Marta Casals Istomin.Read Peled's article for The Strad: How I came to play Pablo Casals’s ...
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ArticleChristopher Walken shares a Pablo Casals anecdote in the film A Late Quartet
Casals emphasised the good stuff. He encouraged. As for the rest, leave that to the morons, who judge by counting faults. 'I can be grateful,' he said, 'for one singular phrase, one transcendent moment''Christopher Walken describes a meeting with the great cellist Pablo Casals during a scene in ...
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Otherworldly sounds: The Casals Festival in Perpigan
While pondering the fluctuating nature of musical trends and the idea of an underlying interpretative truth, our reviewer from September 1951 finds Pablo Casals to be a perfectly natural performer
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FocusPeace, enchantment and the enduring legacy of Casals
In this report from the Bach Festival at Prades published in The Strad July 1950, writer Christina Thoresby describes the love and respect felt towards the Catalan cellist – one of our great players of the past in the October issue
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BlogsThe story behind the cover of The Strad's October issue – part one
Designer Elma Aquino reveals the detailed thinking that took place and the decisions made in putting October's unusual cover together
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BlogsThe life and times of a historic London studio – part one
The private residence where some of the legendary players featured in the October issue of The Strad performed is under threat. Nicholas Lane revisits those glorious days – and nights – via first-hand accounts from the time
