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Censorship is not an adjective and NAZI means national-socialist... I don't think they are nationalists or socialists, I think they are avarage everyday capitalists. This wee comment is a bit overdramatic (and a bit funny too).
@@teresatorr5255 Censorship is when you are protesting while being taken to a concentration camp and get told to shut up. In that instance you feel free to use it as an adjective. Overdramatic and funny might be, depending on how far out you lean from your shell.
Mon grand père était luthier, et il affectionnait tout particulièrement cette œuvre. Quand il est arrivé aux derniers jours de sa belle existence, une des seules choses qui l'apaisaient était d'écouter ce chef-d'œuvre. Quand j'entends cette merveille musicale, je ne peux pas penser à autre chose qu'à lui et aux belles valeurs de douceur, d'harmonie, de force tranquille, qu'il a léguées à toutes les personnes qui l'ont rencontré.
Yes, he recorded them in two batches at Paris and London during the Spanish Civil War... In fact, he discovered the scores in Barcelona, they were forgotten as cellists thought they were mere exercises. He then rehearsed them for more than 10 years before performing and discovering them to the world. Amazingly, he was so upset by the allies refusal to liberate Spain from Franco's dictatorship that he refused to play in public for more than 15 years after IIWW, only taking students at his modest residence in Prades, France, close to is natal Catalonia. He could not, would not, return to live in Spain, dying just before Franco. His was an inspiring life, an undeterred commitment to music, peace, democracy... a tru hero in music and in silence.
Thank you for this tidbit of history. The world changed so much around the time of the Spanish Civil War and immediately after. Knowing how these recordings were made and when just adds to the drama and history of the period.
So, you get to become a hero because governments didn’t send more people to die for your ideal? Do you know how ignorant you sound; he may have been an avid musician but you don’t paint him in a very intelligent light!! 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
I’ve read only one book on this artist. Fascinating life story. Unsurprisingly, he would begin each morning by warming up on his cello -playing Bach, of course.
I worked for a while with Manfred Clynes, who had accompanied Casals on piano in Puerto Rico when Casals was teaching there. Manfred, an accomplished musician (and inventor) in his own right, considered Casals a musical avatar whose death removed from our world something unique, precious, and irreplaceable. This gorgeous recording shows how true that is.
Bei einer Abschlussprüfung heutiger Zeit würde Herr Casals nicht bestehen. Er hält sich nicht immer an NOTENWERTE, sonder erdreist sich zwischen den Zeilen zu interpretieren. Aber dadurch beginnt JS Bach zu atmen. Eine Kunst die man heute verpönt.!!! CULTURE CANSLER!!!
Pablo Casals was my grandpa's favorite cellist and I can see why, My grandpa was a professional cellist who traveled the world with his cellos and when retired he would blow the mind of this little boy nearly 60 years ago in his front room, I miss him but Casals always bring him back to me.Great share thanks.
disculpa no hablo mucho ingles , pero dices que tu eres el nieto de Pablo Casals , es posible te puedan interesar unos acetatos autrografiados por tu abuelo son de 1910 , my e-mail pedrosss3@gmail.com
"I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young." - Pablo Casals //// In 1957, at age 80, Casals married 20-year-old Marta Montañez y Martinez. He is said to have dismissed concerns that marriage to someone 60 years his junior might be hazardous by saying, "I look at it this way: if she dies, she dies."
The engineer who remastered these recordings must be an obsessed genius. I've heard some remarkable restorations of jazz from this era, but none better at restoring the musical integrity and artistic expression of the original. Absolutely stunning.
The more I listen to it, the more I feel the grandeur of a magnificent, awesome hand of the creator creating the universe, the spirit of mankind, the animals and nature. It is like Bach talking to God and Casals eavesdropping the conversation to narrate to us what was said.
Wow, to discover the beauty of this music. For 42 years I cheered the music that was popular, pop, alternative, hiphop, trance, EDM. One day, in my car, I tuned in to the Dutch classical music station, and my mind completely wandered of at the traffic lights listening to a piano piece by Rachmaninov. So much to discover! These cello suites by Bach are truly magnificent...
In 1890, when he was 13, he found a tattered copy of Bach's six cello suites in a second-hand music store in Barcelona. He spent the next 13 years practicing them every day before he would perform them in public for the first time.
I just learned that this was literally the first recording of these pieces, and this was the man that caused them to become known to the world again! Before that, if they were recognized, it was as a practice drill!
Yes, too true. Amazing to think it took that long to recognize the imperishable value of these as performance pieces. How did they get past Schweitzer and Einstein and others? Not to mention people like Mendelssohn, who put Bach back on the world map. Perhaps they were not well known in those years. Still............
I don't think that this performance will be surpassed very soon. Such richness of sound, one doesn't miss the orchestra, the music is complete. I can't have enough of it.
SO many thanks to whoever has posted this ancient recording resurrected to such stunning sound quality. It gives me hope for many other landmark recordings that might be cleaned up. These suites of Bach are cornerstones of my musical theology, and we can't say enough, or enough thankyous, for whoever did this. Someone really knows what s/he is doing! WOW.
It is a fixture comment of Casals in my memory that he said he played Bach WTC every morning. On his PIANO. That's amazing, and so are these suites, such treasures of divine origin.
Why is this music so relevant? It has lasted hundreds of years, it touches the soul of humankind, and it transcends the trouble and anxiety of today's lost society...plus my dog is mesmerized by it as well.
The late, great, Canadian novelist, W.O. Mitchell said, “The arts are not a luxury. They’re how we know we’re not alone.” The composition and performance illustrate that and the comments here do the same. The many amusing and insightful ones make me know I’m in great company.
One of the best interpretations of that suites! Not in sense of "historically informed" but with an intuitive feeling for the musical spirit and essence of these singular works!
Amen. Historically informed is for newbies and wannabes, anyway. Klemperer rocks my block like an LA aftershock and he plays everything just as he likes, and it all resurrects the deepest spirit of whoever it is he's rendering, Bach with Christa Ludwig (St. Matthew's Passion for EMI), Handel (his "Messiah" recording is one of the few open-ended religious experiences I know, stratospheric, seraphic, astounded me the first time I heard "For Unto Us Is Born" so that I had chills running through all my nerves for the whole evening), Gluck, Brahms, and on and on and on. Like Landowska said, "You play Bach your way and I'll play him his way." Klemperer may have seemed like a nut at times to some (my mother, a Hollywood sweetheart from 1922 on, offered me anecdotes of him coming onstage in his stocking feet to "epater la bourgeoisie" who ran the joint and LA Phil, in his Nazi-refugee stint here in the 1930s, much like Solti telling the Chicago mossback blueblood "orchestra society" ladies that rather than criticize him, they should just build him a statue in front of the hall, which they later did). But Klemperer in his musical soul was as close to God as any musician I ever heard, in his stockings, or shod. A lot like Casals. Spiritually informed, historically indifferent, as to the real relevance of all that jazz. (And I've played Bach as Christoph von Dohnanyi told us of his version of the Mass, "the old-fashioned way", on the Steinweg he hand-picked at the factory, and brought back from Hamburg, when his brother was mayor then. So at least there's that, as spotty and self-taught as I am...and historically less-than-informed.)
Comienzo y final de cada pieza (creo que están más publicados en el posteo original): I.Prélude - Moderato (00:00) II.Allemande - Molto moderato (02:29) III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (06:11) IV.Sarabande - Lento (08:43) V.Menuet I & II (11:05) VI.Gigue (14:19) Cello Suite n°2 in D / Ré minor BWV 1008 I.Praeludium (16:13) II.Allemande (19:59) III.Courante (23:58) IV.Sarabande (26:12) V.Menuetto I & II (30:23) VI.Gigue (33:44) Cello Suite n°3 in C / Do Major BWV 1009 I.Preludium (36:22) II.Allemande (39:54) III.Courante (43:41) IV.Sarabande (46:54) V.Bourée I & II (50:25) VI.Gigue (53:52) Cello Suite n°4 in E flat / Mi bémol Major BWV 1010 I.Prélude - Allegro Maestoso (56:55) II.Allemande - Allegro moderato (1:01:15) III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (1:05:14) IV.Sarabande - Lento (1:09:14) V.Bourée I & II (1:13:28) VI.Gigue (1:17:08) Cello Suite n°5 in C / Do minor BWV 1011 I.Prélude - Adagio ; Allegro moderato (1:19:50) II.Allemande - Molto moderato (1:27:05) III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (1:30:25) IV.Sarabande - Lento (1:32:26) V.Gavotte I & II (1:35:13) VI.Gigue - Allegretto (1:39:44) Cello Suite n°6 in D / Ré Major BWV 1012 I.Prélude - Allegro moderato (1:42:08) II.Allemande - Quasi adagio (1:47:19) III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (1:54:57) IV.Sarabande - Lento (1:58:41) V.Gavotte I & II - Allegro moderato (2:03:05) VI.Gigue - Vivace (2:06:19)
Listening to my dad having played and practiced on his cello daily ....when I close my eyes , I feel the music , him ....and am feeling myself into my roots ...the Cello has always been my favourite instrument ...this is so soul moving ...thank u
Casals pratiquait l'exercice de jouer une Suite chaque jour de la semaine en suivant l'ordre établi. Il est aussi bon de savoir que c'est grâce à lui que les Suites de Bach ont été redécouvertes et remises en valeur après presque deux siècles d'oubli.
Este tipo de musica me ayuda a conectarme con mi ser superior, ademas de encontrar inspiración para crear mis videos para youtube. Este tipo de melodia sube la vibración instantaneamente a frecuencias tan potentes como la gratitud, el amor, la compasión y la unidad con el Todo. REALMENTE RECOMENDADO, no es algo que sientas en la música hoy por hoy.
Casals famously hated how he sounded in recordings, referring to the microphone as a metal monster. And you can hear how it takes away some of the quality. But Casals' genius shines through.
avec pablo casals le violoncel nous semble un instrument diferent ! la qualite de l enregistrement et etonante pour l epoque : parfaite . comme maitre casals il serais juditieux de commencer sa journee en ecoutans une suite de bach , une diferente tout les jours . pierre-xavier de chassot .
@@WalyB01 Sound technology was better than than you think in those days. Many musicians cherish that old tech, the tubes, the mikes etc more than anything created today.
Activista por la Paz, la libertad y la Democracia. La música fue su vida y a través de ella supo expresar el amor, el dolor y las ansias de superación como pocos.
Our music teacher brought us this artist on a PUNISHMENT DAY....what a treat! I never forgot Pablo Cazal. Only He seemed to find the vibration of the cello that would lose no time to reach our inner fiber...never heard such "soul" as his. It has been always a great pleasure to share his talent, so Thank you.
I am not your average classical lover, my father used to sell records in a small town and later I worked for 10 years in another recordshop to move in 1990 to the center of Music here in Holland and worked for another 20 years in the industry. The only classical record I liked when I was 16 or so ( and still do), was Reinbert de Leeuw's album with compositions of Erik Satie. And I never was busy with classical music, untill a friend introduced me To Pablo in 2010. I immediately loved it and play it very often and admire his dedication and musicianship. What a pity I have never seen him play.
My dad Buell used to always play the first one for me after smoking a joint on the weekend. He told me that some of them were very difficult to play. I love these recordings.
Can you believe that Casals was recording the suites during the Spaniard Civil War (1936-1939)? Imagine the actual mood of the Spanish cellist throughout.
Spain produced many universal masculine artists during the tortured XXth century, here, a short list: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí, Miró, Picasso, Pau Casals, Chillida, Tàpies, Almodóvar... I surely forget many others. During happy times, people turn their backs on art and entertain themselves squandering their lives on endless pass-times.
Some say that they find the cello suites relaxing.. I don't know what it is, while they are relaxing, I get so overwhelmed with happiness and contentment it's almost too much.
Wow ! The sound is so RICH here .... THANK YOU for uploading ... Thrilled again ! Marvelous music and from The Maestro himself ... My first taste of Casals and Bach Cello was in the late nineties when I had picked up a double album CD at Cash Converters. What luck then. I was absolutely thrilled ! And why I couldn't find this on YT for more than ten years looking ... ?! Thanks again 🤩😍
I have startet to learn playing Cello. Far away from playing Bach and the Suites! But I love to play Cello! Playing Cello, trying to play Cello gives me the chance to look on my life!
Dearest Lisa, you are never far away from playing the suites. Buy the sheet music and take it one step at a time. Today I played the piece I tried after just a few months' lessons. It was only slightly better, but I am still improving. I have a long way to go, but I am only 82.
Pau Casals played it and it was recorded in Paris between 1936-1939. We, Spaniards where involved in the most cruel Civil War( Spanish II Republic vs National Rebels Army commanded by general Franco and general Sanjurjo ,which later derived into the fascism and Franco's dictatorship) we had had in all our History. Due to this fact , the great musician, who was Republican in those years , had to exile to France , fleeing from the terrible War conflict and the Franco' s troops advance.
Yes, the suites supported my soul through of my life as well. Bach is a mystery to me. The depth and breadth of his music...filled with joy and faith as well. Follow your souls message of light and family will be drawn in as a magnet.
It's marvellous. Absolut rarity. Thank you. If Paganini was called "the Devil's violinist", Casals could be called The God's cellist. Sorry but I had no opportunity to hear him "in vivo". His play takes off the burdens of one's soul, and relieves the physical pains.
YES! This was always a support for my soul. Thank you all you folks who have learned to listen. Thank you Pablo Casals. Always wondered...where does the music go when the musician has gone. But now we have a world of miracles to share the voice from within.
as a guitarist of 30 years, I am often jealous of casals and his play his instrument for 90 years life span. he's the only person on the planet i could say i would jealous of, just for that reason. everything else is practice. this suite is pretty wonderful
Coleman Hawkins, who played 'cello, advised young jazz saxophonists to play Bach's 'cello pieces. He played them daily - he said- on his tenor saxophone.
It is such a thrill to listen to these incredible cello suites and have Pablo Casals in my living room interpreting the genius JS Bach. Has anyone noticed that classical music listeners are very good writers. I rarely see a spelling or grammar mistake in any comments. Just a thought.
Hahaha very true. They look for quality in what ever they do, i suppose.i did quality courses in ASQ american society for quality and knew Deming and Juran were the gurus or wizards of quality engineering. Each of the above 2, flew to japan for 20 years teaching quality engineering to the owners and staff of honda, Toyota etc which made the japanese to over take the USA in quality. Guess what? : both Deming and juran lived 97 and 101 years respectively! This is very similar to the classic music listeners having good writing without grammatical errors
I venture to disagree. I admire the effort of all those musical people to write in English and thus reach many readers, and I hope they will continue to do so. However, it is obvious that many are not writing in their native language, and almost all comments are full of mistakes, however forgivable. So my answer to your question is NO, I have not noticed that classical music listeners are very good writers!
None other, there will never be another Pablo Casals. Many musicians of his day said that though there were a few phenomenal cellists that could play around him technically but nobody could beat him musically.
Have you heard the versions of the French cellist Pierre Fournier? He used to say that, even though the ones by Casals are splendid, they suffer from a romantic feeling that was not in Bach. His interpretations are, then, an intent to rescue the original feeling of Bach's compositions.
@@Neopachuco Thank you. I'll look into Maestro Fournier, although I don't personally mind Bach performed in an anachronistic Romantic style. Columbia University's radio station WKCR holiday Bachfest featured Wanda Landowska's absolutely Sturm und Drang rendition of the Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D-minor and it blew me away. Whether performed in stylistic purity like Jordi Savall or Stokowski's Entrance into Valhalla interpretation, Bach's beauty shines through.
@@Neopachuco What an astonishing and original claim; never heard a modern musician or early music specialist make that completely unprovable assertion. Such arrogance!
I was pondering how Bach would have come up with these on paper, he seems like he's using the notes as words in a letter to someone, Bach's mastery with tones and intervals seems astonishing, total 2nd nature.
THANKS for posting these gems...I've only heard the other recording which casals interpreted very differently...he really let his hair down in these & I'm glad he chose to record this again😢❤
Bach was many things. To call or to consider him merely a music-maker, was, to him, the meanest of insults. This I remember reading, from a bona fide source. One critic or writer back in this time, had the nerve or gall to scribe it. Bach was deeply wounded! His own notion, was that he was a scientist. '''The pen, is the tongue of the mind.'' * Miguel De Cervantes I had your very thought in my, mind , at this, moment. Although you wrote yours an entire year ago! Thoughts are indeed, such Powerful entities! Thank You,Chris! God bless. Dr. Rob
I suggest that in the description, you put the timestamps at the beginning of each line, so that RUclips could add automatic marks for each section in your video and ppl can jump to wherever they want easily, though I think the recording worth listening from the beginning to the end without skipping any part.
Gracias por sus palabras. Los catalanes vivimos dentro de otro pais llamado españa, en el cual , lo que se intenta es en hacer olvidar lo bueno de los catalanes.
These recordings have spoiled me. I have a hard time listening to other interpretations of these pieces. They all seem like they're in a hurry to get to reach the end of the race and Casals is savoring every step of the journey
Thanks for uploading this historic record. Pau Casals during the 30s and 40s was a pioneer, not only of Bach's cello works, but as the cello as a prime concert instrument, not only part of the basso continuo. With decades passing, he was recognized the world over. Famous is the photograph of his concert in the White House for Jackie and Jack Kennedy, he was already world famous. However, the cello suites that he rediscovered and made known among Bach suitors, became (Oh disgrace to the arts) too popular. The number of listeners grew into the many millions, and scores and scores of interpreters offered varied versions. Some "show business" musicians abused this music with "more attractive" interpretations. More emotion was requested and found. With decades, I believe, finally Casals down-to-earth versions, simpler and straightforward interpretations, closer and closer to Bach's spirit and scores, have recovered a site of primacy. There probably are better versions, more and better versions undoubtedly will appear, but the essence of Casals interpretations will always be there.
I gather that some of you are experiencing advertising on this channel and I would like to state unequivocally that there is NO advertising from me on ANY of the recordings in the whole channel of mine. I am reposting the reply to the somewhat insulting comment of ctrl scrutiniser :
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All of them? What do you recommend?
I got this on you tube.
Grateful. Heart aches for Casal's dear soul.
Nazi? Seriously? I don't like it either, but to equate them to Nazis cheapens the suffering of millions from 1933-45.
Censorship is not an adjective and NAZI means national-socialist... I don't think they are nationalists or socialists, I think they are avarage everyday capitalists. This wee comment is a bit overdramatic (and a bit funny too).
@@teresatorr5255 Censorship is when you are protesting while being taken to a concentration camp and get told to shut up. In that instance you feel free to use it as an adjective. Overdramatic and funny might be, depending on how far out you lean from your shell.
Mon grand père était luthier, et il affectionnait tout particulièrement cette œuvre. Quand il est arrivé aux derniers jours de sa belle existence, une des seules choses qui l'apaisaient était d'écouter ce chef-d'œuvre. Quand j'entends cette merveille musicale, je ne peux pas penser à autre chose qu'à lui et aux belles valeurs de douceur, d'harmonie, de force tranquille, qu'il a léguées à toutes les personnes qui l'ont rencontré.
So beautiful, thank you. May he rest in God's perpetual peace.
Yes, he recorded them in two batches at Paris and London during the Spanish Civil War... In fact, he discovered the scores in Barcelona, they were forgotten as cellists thought they were mere exercises. He then rehearsed them for more than 10 years before performing and discovering them to the world. Amazingly, he was so upset by the allies refusal to liberate Spain from Franco's dictatorship that he refused to play in public for more than 15 years after IIWW, only taking students at his modest residence in Prades, France, close to is natal Catalonia. He could not, would not, return to live in Spain, dying just before Franco. His was an inspiring life, an undeterred commitment to music, peace, democracy... a tru hero in music and in silence.
Prada de Conflent és Catalunya, francesa, però Catalunya a la fi...
Not 15 years but 5 years (1950). It was long enough!
Thank you for this tidbit of history. The world changed so much around the time of the Spanish Civil War and immediately after. Knowing how these recordings were made and when just adds to the drama and history of the period.
So, you get to become a hero because governments didn’t send more people to die for your ideal? Do you know how ignorant you sound; he may have been an avid musician but you don’t paint him in a very intelligent light!! 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
Sigh~
It's so interesting to hear a recording that was NOT influenced by other recordings. This is the first complete recording of the Bach Cello Suites
I’ve read only one book on this artist. Fascinating life story. Unsurprisingly, he would begin each morning by warming up on his cello -playing Bach, of course.
I worked for a while with Manfred Clynes, who had accompanied Casals on piano in Puerto Rico when Casals was teaching there. Manfred, an accomplished musician (and inventor) in his own right, considered Casals a musical avatar whose death removed from our world something unique, precious, and irreplaceable. This gorgeous recording shows how true that is.
Ohne Pablo Casals und seiner Interpretation der Cello Suiten wäre mein Leben unvollständig... Mein tägliches Brot...
Bei einer Abschlussprüfung heutiger Zeit würde Herr Casals nicht bestehen. Er hält sich nicht immer an NOTENWERTE, sonder erdreist sich zwischen den Zeilen zu interpretieren. Aber dadurch beginnt JS Bach zu atmen. Eine Kunst die man heute verpönt.!!! CULTURE CANSLER!!!
Pablo Casals was my grandpa's favorite cellist and I can see why, My grandpa was a professional cellist who traveled the world with his cellos and when retired he would blow the mind of this little boy nearly 60 years ago in his front room, I miss him but Casals always bring him back to me.Great share thanks.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful little moment of your life :)
Peace
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I don't read the comments all that often, but I am glad I read your note. It brought back similar great memories. Thank you
disculpa no hablo mucho ingles , pero dices que tu eres el nieto de Pablo Casals , es posible te puedan interesar unos acetatos autrografiados por tu abuelo son de 1910 , my e-mail pedrosss3@gmail.com
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I listen to these every morning for the last 40 years.
Excellent choice of music....
And why not
Nice! This one seems a particular nice rendition is it not? Seems to really get the spirit of it.
wow! that sounds impressive!
may i ask why?
"I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young." - Pablo Casals //// In 1957, at age 80, Casals married 20-year-old Marta Montañez y Martinez. He is said to have dismissed concerns that marriage to someone 60 years his junior might be hazardous by saying, "I look at it this way: if she dies, she dies."
The engineer who remastered these recordings must be an obsessed genius. I've heard some remarkable restorations of jazz from this era, but none better at restoring the musical integrity and artistic expression of the original. Absolutely stunning.
Hear hear: STUNNING. Wow. May this individual resurrect the sound on countless others. Let us start a GoFundMe drive, if needs be!
I couldn’t agree more, although the original has quite a charm to it, as well, somehow
The more I listen to it, the more I feel the grandeur of a magnificent, awesome hand of the creator creating the universe, the spirit of mankind, the animals and nature. It is like Bach talking to God and Casals eavesdropping the conversation to narrate to us what was said.
Wow, to discover the beauty of this music. For 42 years I cheered the music that was popular, pop, alternative, hiphop, trance, EDM. One day, in my car, I tuned in to the Dutch classical music station, and my mind completely wandered of at the traffic lights listening to a piano piece by Rachmaninov. So much to discover! These cello suites by Bach are truly magnificent...
your experience is moving: you discovered because your inner ear perceived what your brain liked.Now your life is and has changed. Compliments
In 1890, when he was 13, he found a tattered copy of Bach's six cello suites in a second-hand music store in Barcelona. He spent the next 13 years practicing them every day before he would perform them in public for the first time.
I just learned that this was literally the first recording of these pieces, and this was the man that caused them to become known to the world again! Before that, if they were recognized, it was as a practice drill!
Yes, too true. Amazing to think it took that long to recognize the imperishable value of these as performance pieces. How did they get past Schweitzer and Einstein and others? Not to mention people like Mendelssohn, who put Bach back on the world map. Perhaps they were not well known in those years. Still............
I don't think that this performance will be surpassed very soon. Such richness of sound, one doesn't miss the orchestra, the music is complete. I can't have enough of it.
I think he was the best. He was the reason why I still play Violoncello today. Thank you Pau!
SO many thanks to whoever has posted this ancient recording resurrected to such stunning sound quality. It gives me hope for many other landmark recordings that might be cleaned up.
These suites of Bach are cornerstones of my musical theology, and we can't say enough, or enough thankyous, for whoever did this. Someone really knows what s/he is doing! WOW.
It is a fixture comment of Casals in my memory that he said he played Bach WTC every morning. On his PIANO. That's amazing, and so are these suites, such treasures of divine origin.
Why is this music so relevant? It has lasted hundreds of years, it touches the soul of humankind, and it transcends the trouble and anxiety of today's lost society...plus my dog is mesmerized by it as well.
Your dog is a class act. As were ours, now departed to hear Bach, like Nipper, up close, onsite.
You might have a dog such as Marlon Brandon's...
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The late, great, Canadian novelist, W.O. Mitchell said, “The arts are not a luxury. They’re how we know we’re not alone.”
The composition and performance illustrate that and the comments here do the same. The many amusing and insightful ones make me know I’m in great company.
On Christmas day in Dublin, when reflection is needed, there is nothing better than JSB's wonderful cello suites exalted be Casals.
[Suite I]
Prelude 0:05
Allemande 2:30
Courante 6:09
Sarabande 8:39
Minuet I&II 11:01
Gigue 14:15
[Suite 2]
Prelude 16:13
Allemande 19:54
Courante 23:48
Sarabande 26:02
Minuet I&II 30:11
Gigue 33:30
[Suite 3]
Prelude 36:15
Allemande 39:43
Courante 43:27
Sarabande 46:43
Bourre I&II 50:13
One of the best interpretations of that suites!
Not in sense of "historically informed" but with an intuitive feeling for the musical spirit and essence of these singular works!
Amen. Historically informed is for newbies and wannabes, anyway. Klemperer rocks my block like an LA aftershock and he plays everything just as he likes, and it all resurrects the deepest spirit of whoever it is he's rendering, Bach with Christa Ludwig (St. Matthew's Passion for EMI), Handel (his "Messiah" recording is one of the few open-ended religious experiences I know, stratospheric, seraphic, astounded me the first time I heard "For Unto Us Is Born" so that I had chills running through all my nerves for the whole evening), Gluck, Brahms, and on and on and on. Like Landowska said, "You play Bach your way and I'll play him his way." Klemperer may have seemed like a nut at times to some (my mother, a Hollywood sweetheart from 1922 on, offered me anecdotes of him coming onstage in his stocking feet to "epater la bourgeoisie" who ran the joint and LA Phil, in his Nazi-refugee stint here in the 1930s, much like Solti telling the Chicago mossback blueblood "orchestra society" ladies that rather than criticize him, they should just build him a statue in front of the hall, which they later did). But Klemperer in his musical soul was as close to God as any musician I ever heard, in his stockings, or shod. A lot like Casals. Spiritually informed, historically indifferent, as to the real relevance of all that jazz. (And I've played Bach as Christoph von Dohnanyi told us of his version of the Mass, "the old-fashioned way", on the Steinweg he hand-picked at the factory, and brought back from Hamburg, when his brother was mayor then. So at least there's that, as spotty and self-taught as I am...and historically less-than-informed.)
@@johnervin8033 Interesting, but here we listen to Casals, not Klemperer!
@@brkahn Wow. Scintillating comment.
@@johnervin8033 Thank you for your appreciation.
Comienzo y final de cada pieza (creo que están más publicados en el posteo original):
I.Prélude - Moderato (00:00)
II.Allemande - Molto moderato (02:29)
III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (06:11)
IV.Sarabande - Lento (08:43) V.Menuet I & II (11:05)
VI.Gigue (14:19)
Cello Suite n°2 in D / Ré minor BWV 1008
I.Praeludium (16:13) II.Allemande (19:59)
III.Courante (23:58) IV.Sarabande (26:12)
V.Menuetto I & II (30:23) VI.Gigue (33:44)
Cello Suite n°3 in C / Do Major BWV 1009
I.Preludium (36:22) II.Allemande (39:54)
III.Courante (43:41) IV.Sarabande (46:54)
V.Bourée I & II (50:25) VI.Gigue (53:52)
Cello Suite n°4 in E flat / Mi bémol Major BWV 1010
I.Prélude - Allegro Maestoso (56:55)
II.Allemande - Allegro moderato (1:01:15)
III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (1:05:14)
IV.Sarabande - Lento (1:09:14)
V.Bourée I & II (1:13:28) VI.Gigue (1:17:08)
Cello Suite n°5 in C / Do minor BWV 1011
I.Prélude - Adagio ; Allegro moderato (1:19:50)
II.Allemande - Molto moderato (1:27:05)
III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (1:30:25)
IV.Sarabande - Lento (1:32:26)
V.Gavotte I & II (1:35:13) VI.Gigue - Allegretto (1:39:44)
Cello Suite n°6 in D / Ré Major BWV 1012
I.Prélude - Allegro moderato (1:42:08)
II.Allemande - Quasi adagio (1:47:19)
III.Courante - Allegro non troppo (1:54:57)
IV.Sarabande - Lento (1:58:41)
V.Gavotte I & II - Allegro moderato (2:03:05)
VI.Gigue - Vivace (2:06:19)
Thanks !!!
Thanks
Thank you so very much!
Gracias!
Thanks
Listening to my dad having played and practiced on his cello daily ....when I close my eyes , I feel the music , him ....and am feeling myself into my roots ...the Cello has always been my favourite instrument ...this is so soul moving ...thank u
Casals was the first to play these suites which he played for 10 years before recording them. Incredible performance.
Ward Marston’s transfers are among the finest I’ve ever heard. ♥️ Casals would have been thrilled to hear these recordings today.
Yes! Si! Great point!
Casals pratiquait l'exercice de jouer une Suite chaque jour de la semaine en suivant l'ordre établi. Il est aussi bon de savoir que c'est grâce à lui que les Suites de Bach ont été redécouvertes et remises en valeur après presque deux siècles d'oubli.
Et grâce à vous pour la donnée.
J'au lu que Casals aussi pratiquait Bach au clavécin chaque matin.
"Réligieusement'.
Wouah merci pour ces informations ❤
Este tipo de musica me ayuda a conectarme con mi ser superior, ademas de encontrar inspiración para crear mis videos para youtube. Este tipo de melodia sube la vibración instantaneamente a frecuencias tan potentes como la gratitud, el amor, la compasión y la unidad con el Todo. REALMENTE RECOMENDADO, no es algo que sientas en la música hoy por hoy.
Fenomenal , Indescriptible , Infinito .
Gracies per la seva música i el seu compromís amb Catalunya, per la seva humanitat i el seu antifeixisme, en deute amb vos mestre !!
LOS ANUNCIOS COMERCIALES MATAN EL ALMA.
SIN ELLOS…!!
HAY UN MUNDO MEJOR. ❤️
Fumat un trippi al•lot
Pagá la versión premium ratón 😂
This is wonderful, and I have not heard any later recording that has surpassed this.
One of the greatest pieces of music ever written. I have loved this piece since childhood. And this is of course a great recording of it.
Casals famously hated how he sounded in recordings, referring to the microphone as a metal monster. And you can hear how it takes away some of the quality. But Casals' genius shines through.
avec pablo casals le violoncel nous semble un instrument diferent ! la qualite de l enregistrement et etonante pour l epoque : parfaite . comme maitre casals il serais juditieux de commencer sa journee en ecoutans une suite de bach , une diferente tout les jours . pierre-xavier de chassot .
Que patrimonio musical nos dejo este genio.
Perdurara como uno mas de los inmortales.
Quand l'intelligence, la sensibilité et la beauté vous consolent de ce monde ...
Brings backgrounds memories of my college days in the practice room trying get through Courante and Sarabande No. 1.
😅
Simplemente maravilloso, desde mi profunda ignorancia. La belleza está al alcance de todo aquel quien quiera decubrirla
The sound quality is so good. It's hard to believe that this was recorded in the pre-Second World War era.
Some engineer went all out. This has been a lot of work.
I know, isn't it amazing we can touch the past so intimately?!
Are u the lizard king from Shroomery!?!?!
i been readin up on weilii, you are such a god send. i know you are im freeakin out rn weird weird synchronicity
@@WalyB01 Sound technology was better than than you think in those days. Many musicians cherish that old tech, the tubes, the mikes etc more than anything created today.
Activista por la Paz, la libertad y la Democracia. La música fue su vida y a través de ella supo expresar el amor, el dolor y las ansias de superación como pocos.
Our music teacher brought us this artist on a PUNISHMENT DAY....what a treat! I never forgot Pablo Cazal. Only He seemed to find the vibration of the cello that would lose no time to reach our inner fiber...never heard such "soul" as his. It has been always a great pleasure to share his talent, so Thank you.
Ell es diu PAU CASALS, no Pablo Cazal
I am not your average classical lover, my father used to sell records in a small town and later I worked for 10 years in another recordshop to move in 1990 to the center of Music here in Holland and worked for another 20 years in the industry. The only classical record I liked when I was 16 or so ( and still do), was Reinbert de Leeuw's album with compositions of Erik Satie. And I never was busy with classical music, untill a friend introduced me To Pablo in 2010. I immediately loved it and play it very often and admire his dedication and musicianship. What a pity I have never seen him play.
My mom like love deeply Satie
@@寶旗黃-n4q I understand, does she like George Winston also?
@@janscholing8136 of course, because Korea drama
My dad Buell used to always play the first one for me after smoking a joint on the weekend. He told me that some of them were very difficult to play. I love these recordings.
DOS GRANDES que han dejado su obra enorme en la historia musical de todos los tiempos....
El Flamenco de Bach enterpredado par Pablo Casals..me encanta, olè!
Gitat
Can you believe that Casals was recording the suites during the Spaniard Civil War (1936-1939)? Imagine the actual mood of the Spanish cellist throughout.
My thoughts exactly! And WW2 about to start... you can almost feel it in the playing.
yes I CAN
Catalan please!
Spain produced many universal masculine artists during the tortured XXth century, here, a short list: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí, Miró, Picasso, Pau Casals, Chillida, Tàpies, Almodóvar... I surely forget many others. During happy times, people turn their backs on art and entertain themselves squandering their lives on endless pass-times.
Some say that they find the cello suites relaxing.. I don't know what it is, while they are relaxing, I get so overwhelmed with happiness and contentment it's almost too much.
Very true Euclid. There was a CAD software with your name in the 90s
Yes, they are so happy sometimes that it brings tears to my eyes. This is my favorite recording of any music.
Suite n°3
Preludio 36:15
Allemande 39:42
Courante 43:29
Sarabande 46:42
Bourée I 50:13
Bourée II 51:36
Gigue 53:37
Suite n°4
Preludio 56:50
Allemande 1:01:09
Courante 1:05:00
Sarabande 1:09:00
Bourrée I 1:13:13
Bourrée II 1:41:53
Gigue 1:16:55
Wow ! The sound is so RICH here .... THANK YOU for uploading ... Thrilled again !
Marvelous music and from The Maestro himself ...
My first taste of Casals and Bach Cello was in the late nineties when I had picked up a double album CD at Cash Converters. What luck then. I was absolutely thrilled !
And why I couldn't find this on YT for more than ten years looking ... ?! Thanks again 🤩😍
Sounds absolutely amazing 🎶🎵. It always amazes me just how well an instrument/instruments sounds when there are no interruptions. 💯🎵🎶💯💯💯
I can understand that.
Sublime, the best!
Casal's recording of these suites remain the template by which all other cellists are judged.
I have startet to learn playing Cello. Far away from playing Bach and the Suites!
But I love to play Cello!
Playing Cello, trying to play Cello gives me the chance to look on my life!
Good luck to you! You will find your own way to the music :)
Dearest Lisa, you are never far away from playing the suites. Buy the sheet music and take it one step at a time. Today I played the piece I tried after just a few months' lessons. It was only slightly better, but I am still improving. I have a long way to go, but I am only 82.
Pau Casals played it and it was recorded in Paris between 1936-1939. We, Spaniards where involved in the most cruel Civil War( Spanish II Republic vs National Rebels Army commanded by general Franco and general Sanjurjo ,which later derived into the fascism and Franco's dictatorship) we had had in all our History. Due to this fact , the great musician, who was Republican in those years , had to exile to France , fleeing from the terrible War conflict and the Franco' s troops advance.
Buried in medical books, and my heart broken rapports with my Mom, Bach cello suites comfort my soul.
youre buried in medical books. she'll be alright
Dr. X w%2
Be sure to make it right with your mom, though ;-)
Yes, the suites supported my soul through of my life as well. Bach is a mystery to me. The depth and breadth of his music...filled with joy and faith as well. Follow your souls message of light and family will be drawn in as a magnet.
曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲
What a beautiful performance
It's marvellous. Absolut rarity. Thank you. If Paganini was called "the Devil's violinist", Casals could be called The God's cellist. Sorry but I had no opportunity to hear him "in vivo". His play takes off the burdens of one's soul, and relieves the physical pains.
YES! This was always a support for my soul. Thank you all you folks who have learned to listen.
Thank you Pablo Casals. Always wondered...where does the music go when the musician has gone. But now we have a world of miracles to share the voice from within.
I have the-disc vinyl album of this suites played by Casals. One of my favourite pieces.
A écouter en début de matinée: musique qui éveille les sens et allume la journée !
as a guitarist of 30 years, I am often jealous of casals and his play his instrument for 90 years life span.
he's the only person on the planet i could say i would jealous of, just for that reason.
everything else is practice. this suite is pretty wonderful
9 out of 10 Babies agree, this is the most interesting music to listen to when you're just lay'n around in your crib
9 out of 10 gangsta rappers agree, this is the most interesting music to listen to when you're just hangin' around in your crib ;-)
@@katinkiplinkyplonk4933 hahaaha soo funnny
Goo goo gah gah goooooood! (I would have said "great" but I'm too young to know such a word.)
probably the best performing of this supreme musical work ..
The first and still one of the best. But do also try Pierre Fournier.
Coleman Hawkins, who played 'cello, advised young jazz saxophonists to play Bach's 'cello pieces. He played them daily - he said- on his tenor saxophone.
That's truly fascinating. Thank you 😉
There's a lot of Bach in his "Body and Soul".
It is such a thrill to listen to these incredible cello suites and have Pablo Casals in my living room interpreting the genius JS Bach. Has anyone noticed that classical music listeners are very good writers. I rarely see a spelling or grammar mistake in any comments. Just a thought.
Hahaha very true. They look for quality in what ever they do, i suppose.i did quality courses in ASQ american society for quality and knew Deming and Juran were the gurus or wizards of quality engineering. Each of the above 2, flew to japan for 20 years teaching quality engineering to the owners and staff of honda, Toyota etc which made the japanese to over take the USA in quality. Guess what? : both Deming and juran lived 97 and 101 years respectively! This is very similar to the classic music listeners having good writing without grammatical errors
@colinridiculous plebs who do'nt lisen to clasical music are bad at words but we are'nt becsue we do
I venture to disagree. I admire the effort of all those musical people to write in English and thus reach many readers, and I hope they will continue to do so. However, it is obvious that many are not writing in their native language, and almost all comments are full of mistakes, however forgivable. So my answer to your question is NO, I have not noticed that classical music listeners are very good writers!
How i love that first bach cello song. Just never can listen to it enough times.
None other, there will never be another Pablo Casals. Many musicians of his day said that though there were a few phenomenal cellists that could play around him technically but nobody could beat him musically.
Excelente, la musica en la rama mas pura de la musica. Hay pocas interpretaciones de ese nivel. 10/10
These are the best interpretations I've heard of Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suites!
Have you heard the versions of the French cellist Pierre Fournier? He used to say that, even though the ones by Casals are splendid, they suffer from a romantic feeling that was not in Bach. His interpretations are, then, an intent to rescue the original feeling of Bach's compositions.
@@Neopachuco Thank you. I'll look into Maestro Fournier, although I don't personally mind Bach performed in an anachronistic Romantic style. Columbia University's radio station WKCR holiday Bachfest featured Wanda Landowska's absolutely Sturm und Drang rendition of the Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D-minor and it blew me away. Whether performed in stylistic purity like Jordi Savall or Stokowski's Entrance into Valhalla interpretation, Bach's beauty shines through.
You're right, Mr. Malkin, Bach's beauty shines through no matter what.
@@Neopachuco What an astonishing and original claim; never heard a modern musician or early music specialist make that completely unprovable assertion. Such arrogance!
pure magic, lifts the soul.
I was pondering how Bach would have come up with these on paper, he seems like he's using the notes as words in a letter to someone, Bach's mastery with tones and intervals seems astonishing, total 2nd nature.
first time hearing this version. i love it.
the cover as well
So expressive, love the phrasings
Thank you so much for posting this! This music knows me and stirs me to my core. Master Casals was an unparalleled genius!
This excellent to listen to on tabbed browsing while i read long articles.
This and Misha Maisky´s are my favorite renditions
THANKS for posting these gems...I've only heard the other recording which casals interpreted very differently...he really let his hair down in these & I'm glad he chose to record this again😢❤
Great music! Love it! Thx a million!
Maravilloso
Sad people who thumbs down Bach ☹️🎶🎶🎶🎶👍
Thank you so much for uploading this. This is by far and away my favorite interpretation of this piece. You are doing The Lord's work my friend
Bach was many things. To call or to consider him merely a music-maker, was, to him, the meanest of insults. This I remember reading, from a bona fide source. One critic or writer back in this time, had the nerve or gall to scribe it. Bach was deeply wounded! His own notion, was that he was a scientist.
'''The pen, is the tongue of the mind.'' * Miguel De Cervantes
I had your very thought in my, mind , at this, moment. Although you wrote yours an entire year ago! Thoughts are indeed, such Powerful entities! Thank You,Chris! God bless. Dr. Rob
The Lord? Do you mean J.S Bach? J.S Bach wrote these pieces not a fictional deity. These pieces of genius were written by a man. A man.
So suite and beautifull...amazing!
Bravo bravisimo. Touching heaven with my heart, burdens off me, I feel good. Grande Casals, gracias siempre. Moltes gracies.
What a gift! Thank you.
I suggest that in the description, you put the timestamps at the beginning of each line, so that RUclips could add automatic marks for each section in your video and ppl can jump to wherever they want easily, though I think the recording worth listening from the beginning to the end without skipping any part.
QUE.EMOCION.TAN.GRANDE.EXPERIMENTE.CUANDO.ESCUCHE.UNA.INTERPRETACION.DE.BACH.TAN
EXCELSA.COMO.LA.DE.PABLO.CASALS.GRACIAS
POR.COMARTIRLO.LA.PRIMERA.VEZ.QUE.ESCUCHE.A..ESTE.MAESTRO.DEl.CELLO.YO.ERA.MUY.JOVEN.GRACIAS.NUEVAMENTE!!!!!!!
Disculpeu, però és en *PAU* CASALS.. . Emocionant, magistral!!!
Català UNIVERSAL
I only wish JSB and Casals could have met each other. What a connection, even though separated by time.
Perhaps in heaven
Recorded 80 years ago and they sound this good???!!!
I can hear his fingers as they hit the fingerboard, something I haven't heard in other recordings.
Pura meraviglia
No olvidar nunca a P.Casals, es será un ícono en la historia del chello , Grande !!!
Gracias por sus palabras. Los catalanes vivimos dentro de otro pais llamado españa, en el cual , lo que se intenta es en hacer olvidar lo bueno de los catalanes.
Good luck po sa premier mo
Un gran regalo! GRACIAS!
Now my best version of the suites...6th by far most loved.. such spectacular yearning!
You can still tell he's really good even though the recording is so old
These recordings have spoiled me. I have a hard time listening to other interpretations of these pieces. They all seem like they're in a hurry to get to reach the end of the race and Casals is savoring every step of the journey
try xavier foley... hes on bass and kills these suites
also you neeeeeed to check out joel quarington... man is a beast aswell.
Listening and love it in 2020
Omigod, how is the sound so GOOD?!
Thanks for uploading this historic record. Pau Casals during the 30s and 40s was a pioneer, not only of Bach's cello works, but as the cello as a prime concert instrument, not only part of the basso continuo. With decades passing, he was recognized the world over. Famous is the photograph of his concert in the White House for Jackie and Jack Kennedy, he was already world famous. However, the cello suites that he rediscovered and made known among Bach suitors, became (Oh disgrace to the arts) too popular. The number of listeners grew into the many millions, and scores and scores of interpreters offered varied versions. Some "show business" musicians abused this music with "more attractive" interpretations. More emotion was requested and found. With decades, I believe, finally Casals down-to-earth versions, simpler and straightforward interpretations, closer and closer to Bach's spirit and scores, have recovered a site of primacy. There probably are better versions, more and better versions undoubtedly will appear, but the essence of Casals interpretations will always be there.
Soul music!
Timeless....