Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals & Prades Festival Orchestra and Choir - J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (Live) (Remastered) (2024) [24/48]

Pablo Casals & Prades Festival Orchestra and Choir - J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (Live) (Remastered) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 148:26 minutes | 1,64 GB
Classical, Sacred, Opera | Label: Archipel, Official Digital Download

The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on 7 April 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church.
Pablo Casals - The Complete HMV Recordings 1926-1955 (2023)

Pablo Casals - The Complete HMV Recordings 1926-1955 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.5 GB
10:59:08 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

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, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn. From the symphonic repertoire come the concertos by Dvořák (with George Szell) and Elgar (Adrian Boult). Finally, an enchanting disc of encores and – with Casals’s own street-band or cobla – seven examples of the sardana, the national dance of the great artist’s beloved homeland.

Pablo Casals - The Philips Legacy (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 27, 2022
Pablo Casals - The Philips Legacy (2022)

Pablo Casals - The Philips Legacy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) - 1.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 873 MB
6:17:57 | Classical | Label: Decca / Eloquence

The late chamber recordings made by the great Catalan cellist with longstanding friends and colleagues, including two versions of Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio, the 1956 'Hommage à Pablo Casals' LP, and the Schubert String Quintet with the Végh Quartet. Includes CD premieres. In September 1958, the 81-year-old Pablo Casals took part in the (now annual) Beethovenfest held in the composer's home city of Bonn. His music-making had lost none of its carefree spirit, and Philips quickly issued these live recordings of Beethoven sonatas and piano trios made in the intimate space of the music room of the Beethoven House. They preserve the cellist on liberated and exhilarating form in a transcription of the Horn Sonata and the Second and Fifth Cello Sonatas, accompanied by the Polish pianist who had been a chamber-music partner since the 1930s, MieczysLaw Horszowski.
Pablo Casals - Pablo Casals: El Pessebre (2022 Remastered Version) (2023)

Pablo Casals - Pablo Casals: El Pessebre (2022 Remastered Version) (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 494 MB | Cover | 01:44:51 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 242 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Pablo Casals is still considered one of the greatest cellists of all time. But he also worked as a conductor and composer. The Christmas oratorio El Pessebre, which is moderately modern in its musical language and is essentially permeated by song-like elements, based on a text by the Catalan poet Joan Alavedra, was written under the impression of the Spanish Civil War and the 2nd World War. It is a musical memorial for peace and humanity.
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Schumann: Symphony No. 2; Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (1991)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Schumann: Symphony No. 2; Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 319 Mb | Total time: 60:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SMK47297 | Recorded: 1968, 1970

The Schumann is a revelation. it crackles with rhythm and sparkles with Casals zest for life. I've rarely heard a more beautiful recording. It is not the straight laced type of affair that often comes out on CD these days. And its as far from Gardiner's Schumann as any I know.
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites (2004)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 506 Mb | Total time: 59:46+44:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classics | # 517492 2 | Recorded: 1966, 1976

From 1960 to 1973 Casals bequeathed his vast knowledge and led the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, whose deceptively nondescript name concealed a wealth of talent, its roster a dazzling catalog of present and future superstars. From the weekend concerts, Columbia recorded a variety of works that inspire with their depth and vitality. As recalled by producer Thomas Frost, Casals took a fresh look at old masterpieces, imbued by his vast experience, and stimulated "a crisp spontaneity undulled by the routine of repeat performances."
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 2; Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn (1990)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 2; Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 68:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SMK 46247 | Recorded: 1969, 1970

A charismatic presence, [Casals] embraces each work with the passion of a devoted horticulturist tending his most precious flowers … I can't think of any other interpreters who so successfully underline the sheer inventiveness of Beethoven's writing.
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-3, Orchestral Suite No. 1 (1990)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-3, Orchestral Suite No. 1 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 69:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classics | # SMK 46253 | Recorded: 1964, 1966

Casals was one of the very few conductors, and certainly the first, to record the complete Brandenburgs twice – in 1950 with his Prades Festival Orchestra (Columbia LPs) and in 1964-6 with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra (Sony CDs). Incidentally, don't be fooled by their names into assuming that these were amateur ensembles – both were extraordinary groups of top-flight professionals who would come together to study and play over the summer – the cello section of the Marlboro Festival Orchestra included Mischa Schneider (of the Budapest Quartet), Hermann Busch (Busch Quartet) and David Soyer (Guarneri Quartet).
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra -  Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4-6, Orchestral Suite No. 4 (1990)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4-6, Orchestral Suite No. 4 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 76:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classics | # SMK 46254 | Recorded: 1964, 1966

Casals was one of the very few conductors, and certainly the first, to record the complete Brandenburgs twice – in 1950 with his Prades Festival Orchestra (Columbia LPs) and in 1964-6 with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra (Sony CDs). Incidentally, don't be fooled by their names into assuming that these were amateur ensembles – both were extraordinary groups of top-flight professionals who would come together to study and play over the summer – the cello section of the Marlboro Festival Orchestra included Mischa Schneider (of the Budapest Quartet), Hermann Busch (Busch Quartet) and David Soyer (Guarneri Quartet). As recalled by Bernard Meillat, while Casals appreciated research into Baroque playing, he viewed Bach as timeless and universal, and insisted that an interpreter's intuition was far more important than strict observance of esthetic tradition.
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4; Schubert: Symphony No. 5 (1990)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4; Schubert: Symphony No. 5 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 349 Mb | Total time: 69:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SMK 46246 | Recorded: 1969, 1970

This disc offers something quite hard to get these days - Beethoven and Schubert played for their own sake under a conductor who can and does wield from the rostrum every bit of the immense authority of the best years of his cello-playing when even the intervals between the notes seemed to have been imaginatively recreated, and the phrasing presented with nothing less than perfect sensitivity and dignity, and without any desire to make points or impress by virtuoso polish. Of course his approach is of his time. But the Marlboro audience was very lucky, and so is anyone who now listens to this with an open mind. This is a great musician conducting folk who in the act of performance he treats as equals.