Tag: Schumann

• The great cellists?

  June 12, 2017

  Classical music, Concerto, Orchestral

  Cello concerto, Schumann

  Pablo Casals speaking of the Schumann Cello Concerto: It is one of the finest works one can hear – from beginning to end the music is sublime. This, the first of the great romantic cello concertos, gives us a chance to compare the playing/interpretive skills of an older generation of cellists (Gendron, Piatigorsky, Fournier, etc.) –…