Pablo Casals - Schumann Trio Nr. D-Moll op.63, Stücke op. 102 1-5 (CBS 61 766 Mono) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1)

Info:

Pablo Casals: Schumann - Klaviertrio Nr.1 D-Moll op. 63 / Stücke im Volkston Für Violoncello Und Klavier op. 102 Nr 1-5
Pablo Casals: Schumann - Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor op.63 / Five "Stücke im Volkston" for piano and cello op. 102

Label: CBS
Catalog#: 61 766 (mono)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 1976
Recorded: 1952
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic

Tracklist:

Klaviertrio Nr.1 D-Moll op. 63 / Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor op.63

A1 I - Mit Energie und Leidenschaft
A2 II - Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch
A3 III - Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung / IV - Mit Feuer

Stücke im Volkston Für Violoncello Und Klavier op. 102 Nr 1-5 / Five "Stücke im Volkston" for piano and cello op. 102

B1 I - Mit Humor
B2 II - Langsam
B3 III - Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen
B4 IV - Nicht zu rasch
B5 V - Stark und markiert

Credits:

* Piano - Mieczyslaw Horszowski (A1-A3)
* Piano - Leopold Mannes (B1-B5)
* Violin - Alexander Schneider
* Violoncello - Pablo Casals

Notes:

Recorded in Prades June 1952. This record was reissued in 1994 on CD by Sony Classical with the title "Pablo Casals Plays Schumann at Prades (1952-1953)".

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher, Friedrich Wieck, that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury caused by a device he created with the false belief that it would help increase the size of his hands prevented that. One of the most promising careers as a pianist had thus come to an end. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.

Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.

In 1840, Schumann married pianist Clara Wieck when she was of age, following a long and acrimonious legal battle with her father, his former teacher, to gain his approval of the match. Clara Wieck also composed music and had a considerable concert career.

For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Schumann was confined to a mental institution, at his own request.


Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939.

In 1950 he resumed his career as conductor and cellist at the Prades Festival in Conflent, organized in commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach; Casals agreed to participate on condition that all proceeds were to go to a refugee hospital in nearby Perpignan.

In 1952, Casals met Marta Angélica Montañez y Martinez, a 17-year-old Puerto Rican student who had gone to Spain to participate in the Festival. Casals was very impressed with her and encouraged her to return to Mannes College of Music in New York to continue her studies. He continued leading the Prades Festivals until 1966.

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