How’s Casals’ cello sounding these days?
mainAmit Peled has just recorded Volume 1 of the Bach suites on the same Gofriller that Pablo Casals took into studio in 1936.
Spot the difference?
Amit Peled has just recorded Volume 1 of the Bach suites on the same Gofriller that Pablo Casals took into studio in 1936.
Spot the difference?
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Good to find this. Is the recording out? There are of course many fine renditions of these suites but Casals’ retains a certain patina and humanity that are unerasable and unforgettable after all the decades gone by. And Casals not only “discovered” the scores but recorded them first.
Several years ago, at the Lev Aronson Festival, he gave a recital with that same cello performing the same music that Casals had performed at a recital exactly 100 years earlier.
http://www.theaterjones.com/ntx/reviews/20150614104708/2015-06-12/Lev-Aronson-Legacy/Lev-Aronson-Legacy-Festival
The concert was recorded and released. Splendid playing in it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Casals-Homage-Amit-Peled/dp/B01M24UOQB
Matt Haimowitz plays a beautiful 1710 Goffriller that I have had the pleasure of hearing several times at distances of no more than twenty feet. It has a wonderful tone — as fine as any, I think.
Helps when you’re Matt H! Both he and Peled are amazing musicians and genuinely nice people- I’ve heard both in an intimate hall and you’re right.-gorgeous color.
Fantastic cellist, teacher and cello ambassador; the instrument is in good hands.