Cello and piano
SKU:
BO.B.3724
Composed by
J. Cassado/M. Mestre.
Published by Editorial de
Musica Boileau
(BO.B.3724).
Cassado could
be considered are the
first great Catalan
symphonist of the 19th
Century and one of the
first pre-coursers of
Nationalism in our
country. His is a
Nationalism that is
solidly based on central
European traditions,
mainly Germanic in
its.
Plus Ultra
is a special case in
which the desire to
exhibit his deepest
Nationalist sentiments
took a second place to a
more global style into
which he incorporated
harmonies and melodic
turns that recall
Rachmaninoff more than
Albeniz. Plus Ultra can
be considered as a
musical thought which, in
spite of references or
paraphrases of some
typical aspects of
Spanish music of the era,
is an authentic lied in
which the cello sings
out, using maximum of its
expressive possibilities,
with a piano
accompaniment of the
first order.
In
this work Cassado makes
more extensive use of
pianissimo, which is more
typical of the French
school, than in any other
of his works. Through the
use of gestures which are
almost Impressionist, as
well as refined and
tasteful harmonies, the
composer divides the
musical discourse between
the two instruments
creating a fantastic work
which his son Gaspar
performed in
concerts.
