Pablo Casals Cello Interpretation and Technique clip

Pablo Casals teaches master cello students Interpretation and Technique to Bhrams' Sonata no.1 in "e" Minor, op. 38 at U,C, Berkeley in 1960. Nina de Veritch, cellist and Janet Goodman pianist.

[@1982violinist]

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

[@raananeylon4867]

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

[@montxogandia]

He was literally all heart

[@cletedavis5849]

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!

[@DjurreBouman]

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.

[@TheSwqer]

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

[@JohnLelandWhiting]

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.

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

84 years old and still mastering his instrument perfect.

[@Luis.mahuiztl]

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

[@kyliestwo]

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

[@angelicavences9357]

kyliestwo it.. its definitely recorded..

[@peteacher52]

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!

[@Chrisdvc26]

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

[@Ayokalyb]

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

[@AnyahEMB]

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.

[@paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatrick]

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!

[@violinhunter2]

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?

[@PaulJones-oj4kr]

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?"

[@perlfarben]

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

[@u2bvideo]

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

[@visitur4914]

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.

[@kosesetla]

Collons!! El mestre...

[@to0720]

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。

[@keithschilhab7759]

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

[@santhemooncrystal796]

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]

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

[@hirohamadapennyforrester4248]

Mani Butler, how old are you?

[@santhemooncrystal796]

@@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]

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

[@santhemooncrystal796]

@@hirohamadapennyforrester4248 yes.... why?

[@Asagai]

Have listened à thousand times!

[@robertgandy4007]

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

[@younken24films]

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

[@SilverCello]

Brilliant Musician and teacher.

[@gabebabe1]

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

[@alexsaldarriaga8318]

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

[@kishosoundandvision]

pure musician ... amazing

[@professorzerocool]

Timeless...

[@ericross5048]

It was cool watching perform huge shifts unflinchingly while warming up

[@guglielmo64]

Fantastic!

[@mastrojiraja]

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

[@casalsfan]

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

[@defiantprobe]

Bella leziòne... ❤

[@strayykidd]

I love it

[@smokingshotgun]

Casals is the man!

[@monicajager130]

smokingshotgun i

[@avi82625]

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

[@crc8833]

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

[@svetlanaantonenkog4542]

Великий Музыкант!!!

[@josepbertranb4432]

Ya puestos sería Pablo Caseríos

[@cellofacir]

`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.

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

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

[@MrStrangeSensation]

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

[@angelicavences9357]

MrStrangeSensation gofriller

[@monicajager130]

angelica vences bb

[@martinriha3729]

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

[@Philipppppppppppppp]

touché

[@runla2]

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

[@landa60984]

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

[@Violedegambe]

Robert Landa brahms first cello sonata, first movement.

[@otto15232]

Where is the lesson?

[@smashingpots9928]

How intimidated that kid must be in this clip

[@rogerponsponce6376]

PAU

[@punyeto]

his name is PAU casals, not Pablo

[@DeOmnibusDubitandum76]

He was both. Don't be parochial.

[@EmowynAnne]

His shifts... ah.

[@360geraldj]

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.

[@pleximanic]

Pablo Casals didn't mess around!

[@celloendpinfem]

Romanian cellist, Mirel Iancovici reminds me of Casals.

[@origenak5495]

Pau Casals i Defilló *

[@hannesheinz720]

Did he only give preference to female students?

[@kalahbjoseph6904]

my school is names after him

[@sampanther7620]

Fact: he is actually a distant relative of me!

[@marcrovira9785]

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

[@ulisescervantes]

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]

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]

*P A B L O*

[@DeOmnibusDubitandum76]

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]

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

[@loferrerdelaplana]

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

[@DeOmnibusDubitandum76]

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

[@alfonsosm7720]

un respeto se llama PAU no pablo PAU

[@DeOmnibusDubitandum76]

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

[@xaviermatasitarruella9696]

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.

[@kcee54]

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

[@hermanzoon]

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.

[@aalboplana]

His name is Pau!

[@nadiadesimone9853]

aalboplana 👍👍👍❤

[@ulisescervantes]

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]

@@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]

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

[@claraartnow6645]

@@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?

[@bjknobel]

(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.

[@loferrerdelaplana]

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]

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

[@christylarsen691]

T

[@loferrerdelaplana]

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]

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.

[@strayykidd]

The video and the comments are so old

[@OzzyKingofKings]

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

[@ulisescervantes]

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

[@farahbeal586]

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.

[@pacojimenez3192]

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

[@antoniomanuelguerrazaballo3038]

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.

[@violoncellolife]

썸네일이 야단치는 것 같잖아!

[@Philipppppppppppppp]

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

[@bjknobel]

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]

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

[@ruxandraibric3079]

some "teacher" with such a beginner phrasing