All Pablo-Casals articles
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FocusPablo Casals’s approach to vibrato
The legacy of Pablo Casals can be traced primarily to the methods of his colleague Diran Alexanian and favourite student Maurice Eisenberg. Oskar Falta explores the Catalonian cellist’s main vibrato theories, as communicated by these two associates
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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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VideoAmit Peled on 'A Cello Named Pablo'
This video from Washington DC based WDCW news features cellist Amit Peled talking about a new children’s book about him and the Goffriller cello once played by Pablo Casals Watch: Video: how I came to play Pablo Casals’s 1733 Goffriller cello, by Amit Peled
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BlogsHow Schumann’s suppressed Violin Concerto made history – and the ideal subject for a novel
A glamorous violin virtuosa, a hidden masterpiece, a ouija board, Nazis, Ravel’s Tzigane. It’s not hard to see why author Jessica Duchen was attracted to the story of Jelly D’Arányi. As her novel becomes a UK touring concert, she writes about the strange facts behind the fiction
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ArticleStrapping in a cello on an Air Canada flight
As you know, a cello is a very dangerous passenger - Goffriller's like to jump off the chair during flights and eat the passengers!'Cellist Amit Peled films his 1733 Goffriller cello, which once belonged to Pablo Casals, being strapped securely to the seat next to him on an ...
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ArticleThe great cellist Pablo Casals in conversation
I am still learning every day. Every day I complete the same practice routine that I completed at 18 - scales, arpeggios, thirds and finishing with a Bach suite'Cellist Pablo Casals speaks about his life and career as his head is sculpted at the age of 94.Watch: Great ...
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Premium ❘ FocusCellist Timothy Eddy on the teaching styles of Bernard Greenhouse and Pablo Casals
The Orion String Quartet founder learnt the importance of the link between language and music from the two legendary cellists
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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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ArticleGreat players as teachers: Pablo Casals in 1960
In this ten-minute clip from 1960, the great cellist teaches students at UC Berkeley about interpretation and technique, using Brahms' Sonata no.1 in E minor op.38. With Nina de Veritch (cellist) and Janet Goodman (pianist) Read about other leading string players as tutors in the Strad's ...
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BlogsVideo: how I came to play Pablo Casals's 1733 Goffriller cello, by Amit Peled
The Israeli artist tells of his first encounter with Casals's cello in 2012, and how he came to be loaned the instrument by Marta Casals Istomin. Watch a clip of him playing the instrument below.
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola ...
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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