IDAGIO | Prokofiev – Cassadó – Webern: Music for cello and piano 8436009800730

Featuring

Josetxu Obregón
Ignacio Prego
Sergei Prokofiev
Gaspar Cassadó
Enrique Granados
Anton Webern

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Composer Biography

Gaspar Cassadó, a pupil of the renowned cellist Pablo Casals, participated with his teacher in elevating the status of the cello.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Anton Webern believed art means presenting a thought in the clearest and simplest way, striving for comprehensibility like Beethoven did with his 'Eroica' symphony.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in Amsterdam, Holland, on November 17 and 18, 2009, with José Luis Alcaine Bartolomé as the sound engineer.

Compositional Technique

Anton Webern's 'Three pieces Op. 11' for cello and piano, though less than three minutes long, are considered to contain almost everything known as 'music' due to his radical renunciation of traditional elements beyond tonality.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sergei Prokofiev believed that music should be grandiose, technically and conceptually, and reflect the current era, while also being melodic, simple, and clear without being trivial or banal.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Gaspar Cassadó, despite composing, considered composition a hobby and believed that Johann Sebastian Bach had essentially understood him musically over time.

Composition History

Sergei Prokofiev's Cello Sonata and Sinfonia Concertante were inspired by the virtuoso cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, whom Prokofiev promised a sonata after being impressed by his playing.