Cello Concerto in D minor (Cassadó)

Gaspar Cassadó's Cello Concerto in D minor was first performed in 1926 by Cassadó and Pablo Casals, to whom the work was dedicated.^[1]

This piece, like the Suite for Cello Solo, has folk music elements: Spanish, Oriental, and Impressionistic. Gaspar Cassadó studied composition with Maurice Ravel. So it is not surprising when a Ravelian "carnival music" is heard in the second theme of the first movement. The second movement is a theme and variations. An attacca leads to a pentatonic Rondo.

Recordings

• Martin Ostertag, cello. With the Baden Baden Orchestra conducted by Werner Stiefel.

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