Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds / More Cello Encores

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“From 1950 Casals became a celebrity again ….He founded the Prades Festival where many recordings were made including, in 1954, his most sought-after recording after the Bach Suites: an arrangement by his brother of an old Catalan Christmas song Cant del Ocells (Song of the Birds). This piece …was very dear to Casals, so much so that he almost always ended his recitals with this tune. “ (c) James Murray

• 1. Cant dels Ocells (Song Of The Birds) (Trad./Orch.Casals) 3.10
• 2. Sant Marti del Canigo (Trad./Orch.Casals) 4.23
  Both above with the Prades Festival Orchestra Rec.1950
• 3. Nana (from Seven Spanish Popular Songs) (De Falla) 2.11
  with Eugene Istomin (Piano) Rec.1953
• 4. Aria (from Organ Pastorale in F) (J.S. Bach) 4.22
  with the Perpignon Festival Orchestra Rec.1951
• 5. Recitative (from Organ Concerto No.3) (J.S. Bach/Trans.Rosanoff) 4.18
  with Eugene Istomin (Piano) Rec.1953
• 6. Allemande (from Cello Suite No.1 in G major) (J.S. Bach) 1938 3.40
• 7. Prelude (from Cello Suite No.5 in C minor) (J.S. Bach) 1939 7.16
• 8. Adagio (from Piano Sonata No.9 in D major) (Haydn) (arr.) 6.06
  with Eugene Istomin (Piano) Rec.1951

Five Pieces in Folk Style (Schumann) with Leopold Mannes (Piano) 1953

• 9. Vanitas, vanitatum: mit humor 3.13
• 10. Langsam 3.44
• 11. Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen 4.38
• 12. Nicht zu rasch 2.11
• 13. Stark und markiert 3.57

Five Concert Pieces for Cello and Piano (Couperin)

• 14. Prelude – 4.15 15. Siciliene – 2.54
• 16. La Tromba – 1.52 17. Plainte – 3.43
• 18. Air de diable (all with Mieczyslaw Horszowski (Piano) Rec.1950) 1.52
• 19. Melody in F (Rubenstein) with Nikolai Mednikoff (Piano) Rec. 1926 2.46