Cello and piano.

11-05-1977 Pedro Corostola, cello. Manuel Carra, piano. Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Comissioned by the Comisaría Nacional de la Música to commemorate the centenary of Pau Casals birth in 1977.

Comments

"It responds to what the title indicates. Starting from a popular Catalan theme, favorite of Pau Casals, fleetingly insinuating and distorted, the work tends with freedom of form and language, to provide the cello soloist with several opportunities to assert himself with his best technical and expressive."

Xavier Montsalvatge, 1976.