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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 - The Complete Published EMI Recordings 1926-1955 (2009)

Pablo Casals - The Complete Published EMI Recordings 1926-1955 (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, artworks - 1.5 GB | 10:43:36
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Release Year: 2009

One of the great triple threats in classical music, Casals was a noted composer, distinguished conductor and world-renowned cellist. This beautiful set comprises Casals' complete recordings for EMI Classics, including his internationally celebrated recordings of Bach's Cello Suites . They stand alongside sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms; concertos by Dvorak and Elgar; trios by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Haydn and Beethoven, and pieces composed by the treasured cello virtuoso (and tenacious campaigner for peace) himself.
Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 (1990)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 68:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SMK 45891 | Recorded: 1969

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.
Perpignan Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals - The Casals Festivals Perpignan 1951, Volume 1: Mozart - Piano Concertos (2002)

Perpignan Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals - The Casals Festivals Perpignan 1951, Volume 1: Mozart - Piano Concertos (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:29:00 | 428 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Pearl | Catalog: GEMS0167

Spanish cellist Pablo Casals ceased performing in 1946 to protest the world's indifference to the oppressive Franco regime then in power in his homeland. The silence of the cellist, then in his 70s, was keenly felt by the millions who loved him. When he returned to concertizing in 1950, at first it was only to honor Bach, who had died two hundred years before. Violinist Alexander Schneider (of the Budapest Quartet) was integral in coaxing Casals out of his silence and in planning what became known as the Prades Bach Festival.
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 - Mozart - Divertimento No. 11, K. 251 & Quartet in F Major, K. 370 (1951/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Pablo Casals - Mozart - Divertimento No. 11, K. 251 & Quartet in F Major, K. 370 (1951/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:21 minutes | 456 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical, Official Digital Download

Music is Life. Life is Music. This is one way of expressing violinist Isaac Stern’s lifetime credo, a credo that has resounded with unflagging strength throughout a long career, all the way from a sensational début in San Francisco during the 1930s to the beginning of the new millennium, which finds Isaac Stern as indefatigable as ever in the cause of international music. He himself has said…
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, Nikolai Mednikoff, Blas Net, Otto Schulhof - The Bach Cello Suites (1999)

Pablo Casals, Nikolai Mednikoff, Blas Net, Otto Schulhof - The Bach Cello Suites (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:31:45 | 425 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Pearl | Catalog: 45

Pablo Casals showed the world that Bach's solo cello suites were more than mere teaching exercises. Modern ears weaned on historically informed versions might flinch at Casals' tempo fluctuations and distensions of line. Yet his imposing personality, intense concentration, and penetrating musicianship transcend time. Seth Winner's revelatory transfers restore the warm overtones to Casals' cello missing from EMI's harsher remasterings.
Taeguk Mun, Chi Ho Han - Songs of the Cello: Homage to Pablo Casals (2019)

Taeguk Mun, Chi Ho Han - Songs of the Cello: Homage to Pablo Casals (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 59:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | 0190295633134 | Recorded: 2018

This debut album opens with cellist Taeguk Mun - winner of the 2014 Pablo Casals International Cello Competition and the 2016 János Starker Foundation Award - playing Bach's Suite for Solo Cello No 1. He is then joined by the pianist Chi Ho Han, another multi-award-winning musician from South Korea, for Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major and short pieces by Schumann, Schubert, Rubinstein and Pablo Casals.
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.