Gould, Glenn: Radio Documentaries [Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski] by Pablo Casals

Gould, Glenn: Radio Documentaries [Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski]

by Pablo Casals

Released: January 1, 2001

Track Listing

1		ALBERT KAHN: Periodically and, strangely enough, not infrequently - I meet someone who has never heard of the name of Pablo Casals before
2		KAHN: Not so very long ago - when I was in Puerto Rico last - we were talking about how we happened to come together originally
3		KAHN: It's a very strange feeling - when you're sitting, talking to Don Pablo - to realize that you're speaking with a man who played...
4		KAHN: You have to understand that I am speaking not as a musicologist - music is not primarily my field
5		KAHN: In the United States today, I suppose his name is most closely associated with his yearly appearances at the Marlboro Festival
6		PABLO CASALS: Now I say that the Marlboro School is the best possible - the best school in the world
7		KAHN: One question that was recently asked me regarding Casals, I found of special interest
8		FELIX GALAMIR: May I inject myself, my own personality into this discussion for a moment?
9		GUILLERMO FIGUEROA: Last year in the festival we had played a Bruckner symphony
10		KAHN: And there's one rather interesting contradiction that is perhaps worth mentioning
11		GALAMIR: Now Casals is a very strong personality
12		KAHN: It was Sir Francis Bacon who said that there is no beauty which hath not some imperfection in its being
13		GALAMIR: I also think that basically Casals is a very simple person
14		KAHN: If I were asked to sum up Don Pablo's credo, I think I would quote some words of his own rather than try to paraphrase what he said
15		HARRY MANNIS: Casals - A Portrait for Radio
16		GLENN GOULD: This is Glenn Gould and this programme is about Leopold Stokowski
17		LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI: Think of our solar system. Its colossal size
18		STOKOWSKI: Although I am interested in everything in the universe, what I really deeply understand is the symphonic world
19		STOKOWSKI: First of all, it's our privilege and our necessity to try to realize what was in the soul of the composer...
20		STOKOWSKI: If I had to perform the music of, say, Mozart or Shostakovich or Debussy: they all have their own world
21		STOKOWSKI: I think that Ives had that freedom
22		STOKOWSKI: We must give our education of music and of philosophy and of everything connected with human life, subtlety
23		STOKOWSKI: It can all be expressed in one word, and that one word is 'freedom'
24		STOKOWSKI: But has the Russian artist been divorced from the West?
25		STOKOWSKI: It is remarkable that one can stay in the home and hear music from all over the world
26		STOKOWSKI: In Holland, about 20 years ago, I was conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra
27		STOKOWSKI: I find that every day come new possibilities and new ideas and they must not be ignored
28		STOKOWSKI: It is quite possible that the so-called 'cave man' had such ideas too
29		HARRY MANNIS: Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio
30		Digital Booklet: Gould, Glenn: Radio Documentaries - Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski