Casals is the father of cello and his humbleness and honesty shines out through his modest playing .........REST IN PEACE MAESTRO

There was never a performer like Casals who reached so deeply into the music.We are lucky to see and hear this greatness.

@montxogandia

5 жыл бұрын

He was literally all heart

Fascinating! I am a violinist, not a cellist, but having to play for Casals would have been like me having to play for Heifetz. I think I would have passed out on stage!

how does this not get more likes. I was brought up thinking that mozart was what classical music was all about. This man is a magician.

Amazing! During the entire four weeks of these masterclasses I was up in the recording booth, feeding sound down a class A phone line to local radio station KPFA, where they were being taped on an Ampex 351. The recordings still exist and will be eventually be put up in radiOM.

84 years old and still mastering his instrument perfect.

@Luis.mahuiztl

2 жыл бұрын

One time he said you can never accomplish the master of cello but you can get close to it

And to think that Casals was well over eighty years of age when this was filmed. What an inspired teacher and great humanitarian he was. And how he made his wonderful Gofriller cello sing!

My former cello teacher (Nina, not Casals!). I had this on VHS back in high school but tossed it out accidentally when I purged my tapes. Thanks so much for posting this!

PBS in New York City used to broadcast these programs in the srventies. I used to tape them with a cassette tape recorder to listen and study. I loved listening to Pablo Casals' playing and teaching.

Are you kidding? she had it together as best she could have had it together. He showed her a new level to achieve. when playing with the best no matter how good you are they will show you how to be better

What a treat to hear Casal's Brahms e minor sonata that was never recorded.

@angelicavences9357

7 жыл бұрын

kyliestwo it.. its definitely recorded..

Used to watch these on PBS in Hou Tx back in the 70s. Stunning then. Even more so now.

Music performance is comprised of three building blocks: Intonation, Rhythm, and Sound. Casals' phrasing is superb, his intonation is good, and his sound is really good. What more can one ask?

great people don´t talk alot, they show you what is good!

@visitur4914

3 жыл бұрын

He had a lot of respect for this student as an artist, whatever her ability may have been. He showed this by listening to her with all his being.

I love how he's fucking around and improvising while she's trying to tune. I love doing that

@Ayokalyb

7 жыл бұрын

He probably sees it as improvising over her string... I do it too

Brilliant Musician and teacher.

Casals really articulates the phrases and colors them. His recording with Serkin of the Beethoven Sonatas is still the definitive reading. Even Rostropovich can't rival it. Why can't the cellist "get it?"

Collons!! El mestre...

Have listened à thousand times!

"It's not exactly what is written, but i means that..." ¡GENIO! ¡Maestro!

素晴らしい動画をありがとう、魂に響きます。出会えて嬉しい。

pure musician ... amazing

It was cool watching perform huge shifts unflinchingly while warming up

Hi, Nina! You're still looking & sounding good 50 years after this film was made. Imagine my surprise at stumbling across this footage of you and Casals here, taken in the year before his historic concert at the JFK White House. Happy New Year! xoxo

7:07 "It's not exactly as what is written, but it means that!"

@younken24films

4 жыл бұрын

That was awesome! It made me lol. Wow what a gift to have a lesson with the master!

Fantastic!

So my cello teacher's conductor had a masterclass with Pablo Casals 2 months before Casals died. He (the conductor) told me about it and said "I sure hope my playing didn't cause his death lol" good times

@hirohamadapennyforrester4248

3 жыл бұрын

I think Pablo Casals died of old age right? Because he is 96 on his death

@hirohamadapennyforrester4248

3 жыл бұрын

Mani Butler, how old are you?

@santhemooncrystal796

3 жыл бұрын

@@hirohamadapennyforrester4248 Casals did die of old age. The conductor was in his late teens at the time, and is in his 60's now. Im 22.

@hirohamadapennyforrester4248

3 жыл бұрын

@@santhemooncrystal796 do you know the song Break Free by Ariana Grande?

@santhemooncrystal796

3 жыл бұрын

@@hirohamadapennyforrester4248 yes.... why?

Marvellous man...nothing else to say...

Timeless...

Casals is the man!

@monicajager130

7 жыл бұрын

smokingshotgun i

I love it

The great man - to the point, no bullshit. Plays like a steam train - an unstoppable force.

The great string players, like Casals and Heifetz, are really singers in disguise.

Великий Музыкант!!!

Very interesting how the times changed. Today it would have been considered rude to play while the student is tuning. In many cases the master classes presume to be a teaching tool-But in fact they are a way for the professor to shine, on the expense of the student

Bella leziòne... ❤

Esta canción, maravillosa la toco en la olimpiadas 1922 por otro chelista Luis Claret

2:32 That cello freakin GROWWLS! Is that a Strad? Anyone know what he played?

@angelicavences9357

7 жыл бұрын

MrStrangeSensation gofriller

@monicajager130

7 жыл бұрын

angelica vences bb

@martinriha3729

6 жыл бұрын

I guess it's just because he used gut strings, they tend to do this growling

I'm pretty sure they are tuned to A-440 standard tuning.

`He` means that, every interpretation is a personal subjective view of a piece, even Casalses. He seem to prefer the articulation in the beginning rather than some sentimental crying that you hear mostly palyed.

‼️‼️does anyone know the name of this piece they're are playing ???

@Violedegambe

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Landa brahms first cello sonata, first movement.

Ya puestos sería Pablo Caseríos

Where is the lesson?

touché

his name is PAU casals, not Pablo

@DeOmnibusDubitandum76

3 жыл бұрын

He was both. Don't be parochial.

How intimidated that kid must be in this clip

I so did not even realize that is was a "she" until they put the camera behind her and you could see the dress.......

Did he only give preference to female students?

His shifts... ah.

Romanian cellist, Mirel Iancovici reminds me of Casals.

PAU

my school is names after him

Pau Casals i Defilló *

Catalan is not a dialect. It is among the many surviving Latin languages. Pau or Pablo is perfectly acceptable for a country that is divided into different languages and cultures.

Fact: he is actually a distant relative of me!

Pablo Casals didn't mess around!

no es deia Pablo... es deia PAU, Pau Casals

@DeOmnibusDubitandum76

3 жыл бұрын

Pablo y Pau, español y catalán. Catalán y español.

IT'S NOT PABLO, IS PAU! RESPECT! CATALONIA IS NOT SPAIN-FREEDOM FOR CATALAN COUNTRIES

@ulisescervantes

5 жыл бұрын

He named himself Pablo, he was introduced by the UN president as “Don Pablo”,... and Casals was ok with it. All his recordings he named himself Pablo. Why do you insist on renaming him? Just google “Casals record sleeves” and look yourself. Nobody recognizes a Pau Casals outside Catalonia, while everyone knows Pablo Casals. RESPECT TO DON PABLO CASALS

@benaterro2167

4 жыл бұрын

RJJohnson You do realize most of his recordings were published while there was a spanish fascist dicratorship going on right? Euskara (basque)and Catalonian were strictly prohibitted, so don't you dare say he called himself Pablo. Maybe he did't care that much about a name, but he always showed he loved his nation and culture and was a proud catalonian which he staded freely in numerous occasions.

@nickdavis965

4 жыл бұрын

*P A B L O*

@DeOmnibusDubitandum76

3 жыл бұрын

Freedom for Middle Earth! There are no Catalan countries. They don't exist. Your totalitarian comment implies you have a right to annex other regions and territories of Spain based on myth and not history. I will tell you what there is. There is a beautiful language (Catalan) being used as a political and xenophobic weapon by Catalan nationalists and separatists like your ilk. Stop spreading falsehoods and desist from your oppression of Catalan citizens who wish to use Spanish and Catalan freely.

@lluisbofarullros3223

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeOmnibusDubitandum76 if there is Hispanity there are also Catalan Countries as derivative or cultural consequence of the old Catalan Empire

His name is Pau!

@nadiadesimone9853

7 жыл бұрын

aalboplana 👍👍👍❤

@ulisescervantes

5 жыл бұрын

He named himself Pablo, he was introduced by the UN president as “Don Pablo”,... and Casals was ok with it. All his recordings he named himself Pablo. Why do you insist on renaming him? Just google “Casals record sleeves” and look yourself. Nobody recognizes a Pau Casals outside Catalonia, while everyone knows Pablo Casals. You lie to yourselves

@claraartnow6645

3 жыл бұрын

@@ulisescervantes For respect to the maestro, who was catalan and loved his land (opressed by a dictatorship), and due to your evident ignorance in the matter, shut up.

@ulisescervantes

3 жыл бұрын

Clara ArtNow if you show clear rebuttal of what I’m saying, I’ll shut up

@claraartnow6645

3 жыл бұрын

@@ulisescervantes Okay, I’ll explain. You must know that Pau Casals was catalan and that during Franco's dictatorship in Spain from 1939 he had to go into exile. In this franquist dictatorship there was a brutal repression against the catalan culture (also against other cultures of the Iberian Peninsula like the Basque), in which they prohibited the education in Catalan, the publication of books in Catalan, to speak in Catalan in official centers and even down the street if the police found out. Pau Casals loved Catalonia and made it clear the day he played for the UN. He spoke of his land and played the song of birds, a catalan carol, as a sign of peace. The name Pablo is because during the dictatorship, the state translated all catalan names into spanish (also surnames in a lot of cases), and that regime did that as a cultural extermination of anything that was not spanish. Maybe at that time he accepted it, but now it is unforgivable that we call him Pablo because we are denying him the catalan identity that he had and for which he fought. Therefore, it is not a trivial matter, it is a serious thing of historical persecution that out of respect for the master we cannot do. It is as if, for example, Spain had invaded England and replaced all English names in Spanish, for example by making William Shakespeare called Guillermo. Perhaps at that time William would have resigned accepting it because of the regime, but if the regime falls and we continue to call him Guillermo, we are supporting repression and insulting English culture. For us catalans, some of us still being persecuted in a lot of aspects of our culture, is a big insult. Do you understand now why we insist so much that he must be called Pau, and not Pablo?

T

The great teacher can only give hints, can only point the possible way. Words are feeble tools and usually distract or confuse or at worse, they hide from misunderstanding. Merely mimicking the master does not lead to awareness or understanding. Enlightenment in music as with everything else in life follows the same road.

She should've had it more together if she knew she would've been playing for Pablo Casals. I know I would've.

The video and the comments are so old

un respeto se llama PAU no pablo PAU

@DeOmnibusDubitandum76

3 жыл бұрын

Sandeces. Ahora va a ser un insulto llamar Pablo a alguien. Nacionalista provinciano...

@xaviermatasitarruella9696

2 жыл бұрын

No es un insulto, pero se llamaba Pau. Todo puede traducirse, pero era el nombre que le pusieron sus padres. Luego, claro, el funcionario de turno lo inscribió en el registro como Pablo, ya que hacerlo en catalán estaba prohibido. Y, sí, Pablo es la versión provinciana de Pau. Si no fueramos la provincia de alguien, en todo el mundo le llamarían Pau.

Hahaha. Might just easily say "what an ass for tuning while he's playing." He is Casals, after all!

@ulisescervantes

5 жыл бұрын

That’s what you say in Catalonia. In the rest of the world he proudly called himself Pablo and that’s what we will call him to honor his memory

El català no és un Dialecte, és una llengua. "nationalist revolution" què és això??? Jo no parlo de separatismes ni de nacionalismes, només dic que es deia PAU. És molt fàcil pronunciar, PAU, PAU CASALS.

@DeOmnibusDubitandum76

3 жыл бұрын

Era ambas cosas. Como usted, mal que le pese.

Pau Casals era un CATALÀ universal. Els espanyols li deien PABLO perquè no saben pronunciar PAU, és massa difícil per ells. I per cert, el Català NO és un dialecte. No es tracta de nacionalismes ni de separatismes, és com es deia PAU.

@esenio3717

4 жыл бұрын

Llevo llamándole PAU desde que era niño y soy Español. No sé a cuento de qué es más difícil pronunciar Pau. Era un catalán grande como no habrá otro y es un orgullo para Catalunya y para Espanya qué más da. Somos mucho más grandes cuando no estamos pegados a la tierra y vemos que el mundo es muy grande, ese mundo que supo valorar la valía del gran maestro que si se queda en su Vendrell de nacimiento...pues eso.

썸네일이 야단치는 것 같잖아!

Pablo?.... yo me llamo francisco no Fracis ni Francois... un pelin inculto colega... y conociendo la trayectoria de pau casals rozas la ignorancia

@antoniomanuelguerrazaballo3038

2 жыл бұрын

Estimado Francisco. Casals se hacía llamar Pablo, aun cuando su nombre, en catalán, es, como todos sabemos, Pau. En la magnífica grabación de las seis suites de Bach, editadas por EMI en 1936-38, si mal no recuerdo, figura, en efecto, el nombre de Pablo, así como en otras grabaciones (concierto de Dvorak, tríos de Beethoven, Brahms...) de la misma compañía. No es, pues, ignorancia. Saludos cordiales.

(cont.) and with the Republic until the Franco insurrection. He was a famously anti-fascist activist, and spoke against the excesses (nuclear weaponry) of capital-imperialism. His musicianship speaks for itself. Do you PAU folks even care about the cello? There is little he ever said or did to indicate that "PAU" is the primary thing he cared about. Go ahead and post his videos on your Catalan nationalist sites. But leave the rest of us alone; we don't care, and neither did he.

This is beyond all price! Thank you for posting it. His bow arm prduces a tone so warm and vibrant, that it is impssoible to express in words. He also makes the music SPEAK, with his phrasing and subtle nuances and emphasis. The pianist is so wimpy, it makes me sick. It is almost as if she is playing in an adjacent room - so that instead of being a dialogue, it becomes a monologue with the other person just nodding. Casals teaches by playing more than he can through speaking.

lol what an ass for playing the while she's tuning xD

I hesitate to punch this tar baby, but this tireless PAU trolling is overboard. Most of us know that Casal's given name is Pau in the Catalan dialect, but the PAU nazis have elevated this to a point of obsession that is annoying to the majority of folks who aren't here to chat about Catalan separatism. Casals was content to go under the name Pablo for the most part of a 65-year recording career; he was friendly with the Queen of Spain before the nationalist revolution (cont.)

@nomoremrniceguy368

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Who gives af about all the catalan bollocks or pau Pablo nonsense. So ridiculously boring.

some "teacher" with such a beginner phrasing