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Glenn Gould: Radio Documentaries - Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski

Eugene Drucker (vocals), Albert Kahn (vocals), Felix Galamir (vocals), Guillermo Figueroa (vocals), Harry Mannis (vocals), Paula Robeson (vocals), Yvonne Figueroa (vocals), Pablo Casals (cello), Glenn Gould (vocals), Leopold Stokowski (vocals)

  • Release Date: 1st Jan 2001
  • Catalogue No: PSCD2025-2
  • Label: CBC
  • Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

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Gould, G: Casals - A Portrait for Radio

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  • Eugene Drucker (vocals), Albert Kahn (vocals), Felix Galamir (vocals), Guillermo Figueroa (vocals), Harry Mannis (vocals), Paula Robeson (vocals), Yvonne Figueroa (vocals), Pablo Casals (cello)

ALBERT KAHN: Periodically and, strangely enough, not infrequently - I meet someone who has never heard of the name of Pablo Casals before

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KAHN: Not so very long ago - when I was in Puerto Rico last - we were talking about how we happened to come together originally

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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...

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KAHN: You have to understand that I am speaking not as a musicologist - music is not primarily my field

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KAHN: In the United States today, I suppose his name is most closely associated with his yearly appearances at the Marlboro Festival

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PABLO CASALS: Now I say that the Marlboro School is the best possible - the best school in the world

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KAHN: One question that was recently asked me regarding Casals, I found of special interest

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FELIX GALAMIR: May I inject myself, my own personality into this discussion for a moment?

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GUILLERMO FIGUEROA: Last year in the festival we had played a Bruckner symphony

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KAHN: And there's one rather interesting contradiction that is perhaps worth mentioning

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GALAMIR: Now Casals is a very strong personality

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KAHN: It was Sir Francis Bacon who said that there is no beauty which hath not some imperfection in its being

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GALAMIR: I also think that basically Casals is a very simple person

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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

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HARRY MANNIS: Casals - A Portrait for Radio

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Gould, G: Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio

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  • Glenn Gould (vocals), Harry Mannis (vocals), Leopold Stokowski (vocals)

GLENN GOULD: This is Glenn Gould and this programme is about Leopold Stokowski

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LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI: Think of our solar system. Its colossal size

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STOKOWSKI: Although I am interested in everything in the universe, what I really deeply understand is the symphonic world

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STOKOWSKI: First of all, it's our privilege and our necessity to try to realize what was in the soul of the composer...

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STOKOWSKI: If I had to perform the music of, say, Mozart or Shostakovich or Debussy: they all have their own world

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STOKOWSKI: I think that Ives had that freedom

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STOKOWSKI: We must give our education of music and of philosophy and of everything connected with human life, subtlety

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STOKOWSKI: It can all be expressed in one word, and that one word is 'freedom'

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STOKOWSKI: But has the Russian artist been divorced from the West?

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STOKOWSKI: It is remarkable that one can stay in the home and hear music from all over the world

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STOKOWSKI: In Holland, about 20 years ago, I was conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra

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STOKOWSKI: I find that every day come new possibilities and new ideas and they must not be ignored

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STOKOWSKI: It is quite possible that the so-called 'cave man' had such ideas too

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HARRY MANNIS: Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio

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