Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Anton Rubinstein (Composer), Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Enrique Granados (Composer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), David Popper (Composer), Benjamin Godard (Composer), Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Giovanni Sgambati (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Edward MacDowell (Composer), Nikolai Mednikoff (Performer), Edward Gendron (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Nikolai Mednikoff, Edward Gendron
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton Rubinstein, Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Enrique Granados, et al.
• Audio CD (December 13, 1994)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FGB
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,256 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #65 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Short Forms > Nocturnes

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

These early electrical recordings show a very different Pablo Casals from the grunting old man most people remember. At the height of his technical and musical powers, he plays these mostly charming little encores and transcriptions with exquisite musicianship and breathtaking technical command that remains outstanding today. Whether you want to hear Chopin piano pieces or Wagner arias played on the cello is another issue; there is very little real cello music on this disc. But for what is here, one could hardly imagine better performances. The transfers are outstandingly lifelike, the program very generous (76:19), the price reasonable. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing touch of personality, January 25, 2005

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Aldo Giannone "Aldo Giannone" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928 (Audio CD)

This album is perhaps one of my favorite. It features Pablo playing some very romantic and melancholic songs from various composers. It also features Pablo's amazing technique and his capacity of interpretation which gies beyond just reading and playing musical notes.
But also, the fact that this album was recorded so long ago, the original format was gramophone, I think it gives this album very important historical value, the background noise never interrupts the musics, but help listeners to get involved and place himself in the timeline.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pablo Casals: Early Recrdings, a defective product, March 8, 2007

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Mr. Hrant N. Tatian (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928 (Audio CD)

The Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928 is a fine recording with a production defect. The playing is obviously great but near the end of the CD numerous tracks are missing. I returned the CD and was sent a replacement that had the same defect indicating that there was a production error.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, October 20, 2003

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DAVID J SEGOVIA (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pablo Casals: Early Recordings 1925-1928 (Audio CD)

funny, I hear plenty of "real" music coming from this CD ;)