10 Solo Pieces from Pablo Casals’ Repertoire

for cello with piano accompaniment

Compiled and edited by Marion Feldman

This collection is dedicated to the legacy of Pablo Casals. It comprises ten pieces that he often performed throughout his extensive career. His great love of Bach is reflected by his arrangements of the Adagio from the Toccata in C Major for organ, and the Chorale Prelude from Jesu, meine Freude. The great Catalan-Spanish tradition from which he came speaks out in the Intermezzo from Granados opera Goyescas and Casals own Cant dell Ocells (Song of the Birds). Two other pieces in this collection, Mazurka in G minor and Vito, were composed by David Popper, who is remembered today as the leader of the Hungarian school of cello playing. Casals often played many of these virtuoso pieces for the cello as encores on his programs. The ten pieces in this collection contain updated fingerings and bowings, and the book also features rarely-seen photos of Casals himself. For intermediate to advanced players.

Contents:

• An Idelible Impression (bio)
• About Marion Feldman
• Adagio from Toccata in C Major for Organ Johann Sebastian Bach / trans. Alexander Siloti / ed. Marion Feldman
• Aprs un rve (After a Dream) Gabriel Faur / trans. Pablo Casals / ed. Marion Feldman
• Cant del Ocells (Song of the Birds) Pablo Casals / ed. Marion Feldman
• Intermezzo from the Opera Goyescas Enrique Granados / trans. Gaspar Cassad / ed. Marion Feldman
• Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, My Joy) Johann Sebastian Bach / trans. Alexander Siloti / ed. Pablo Casals
• Largo for the Opera Xerxes ? George Frederic Handel / arr. Theo Moses-Tobani / ed. Marion Feldman
• Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 11, No. 3 David Popper / ed. Marion Feldman
• Prayer from From Jewish Life, No. 1 Ernest Bloch / ed. Marion Feldman
• Romance (In the Silence of the Night), Op. 4, No. 3 Sergei Rachmaninoff / trans. Alexander Siloti / ed. Pablo Casals
• Vito (Spanish Dance, Op. 54. No. 5 David Popper / ed. Marion Feldman