Casals Festival

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 (1990)

Pablo Casals, Marlboro Festival Orchestra - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 339 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.
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 - 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.
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.
Cuarteto Casals - Boccherini: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid (2011) [Official Digital Download]

Cuarteto Casals - Boccherini: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 76:53 minutes | 727 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Boccherini owes his celebrity to more than just the infamous Minuet of the Quintet Op.11 No.5 - although that is included here too. This recording rights the balance with some elan: from the brilliant castanets of the Fandango to the much more Viennese style of the String Quartet, the musicians of the Cuarteto Casals and their guests demonstrate the infinite creative resources of the composer. It culminates in the Night Music of the Streets of Madrid, a vivid example of musical realism in which, as Boccherini put it, ‘the strict rules of counterpoint’ would be out of place!
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.
Jaques Thibaud, Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot - Beethoven: Kreutzer sonata, Archduke trio, Variations (2002)

Jaques Thibaud, Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot - Beethoven: Kreutzer sonata, Archduke trio, Variations (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:11 | 213 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos Historical | Catalog: 8.110195

It’s a measure of the paucity of recordings of the Cortot-Thibaud-Casals trio – itself a direct result of their deliberately limited repertoire – that this latest release in Naxos’s series has only one performance by the Trio itself. This all-Beethoven affair presents the Archduke Trio, supported by Thibaud and Cortot’s Kreutzer and the only recording ever made by Casals and Cortot as a duo, the Mozart Variations.
Jan Vogler - Lalo, Casals -  Cello Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jan Vogler - Lalo, Casals - Cello Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 58:26 minutes | 1023 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The Moritzburg Festival Orchestra and cellist Jan Vogler will release on March 3rd, 2023 the world premiere recording of the cello concerto in F major by Enrique Casals (1892–1982) – a quite unknown work – as well as the cello concerto in D minor by Édouard Lalo together with SONY Classical.
Pieter Wispelwey, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer - Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Symphonic Variations (2007)

Pieter Wispelwey, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer - Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Symphonic Variations (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:01 | 252 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: 25807

This fine recording of Dvorák's Cello Concerto by Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey with Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer leading the Budapest Festival Orchestra is as generous, honest, and compelling as the music itself. Wispelwey has a rich, ringing tone that can ride over orchestral tutti fortes yet still sound fully present in intimate pianissimos. He also has an elegant technique that can accomplish anything the work asks without calling undue attention to itself. These qualities allow him to lean into the work's powerful drama and aching lyricism without dividing his attention. The commanding Fischer leads the rich-toned Budapest Festival Orchestra in an accompaniment as musically interesting and dramatically significant as the solo part.

Lockenhaus Festival 1982-1992: A decade of music making  Music

Posted by ponteio at Feb. 8, 2009
Lockenhaus Festival 1982-1992: A decade of music making
Philips 1997 | 11 CDS | FLAC | covers & booklet | 3,2 GB