Album lyrics Gould, Glenn: Radio Documentaries - Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski by Glenn Gould

Gould, Glenn: Radio Documentaries - Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski

Glenn Gould

2001 29 songs

1. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: It is quite possible that the so-called 'cave man' had such ideas too

2. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: But has the Russian artist been divorced from the West?

3. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: I think that Ives had that freedom

4. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: If I had to perform the music of, say, Mozart or Shostakovich or Debussy: they all have their own world

5. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: First of all, it's our privilege and our necessity to try to realize what was in the soul of the composer...

6. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI: Think of our solar system. Its colossal size

7. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: GLENN GOULD: This is Glenn Gould and this programme is about Leopold Stokowski

8. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: KAHN: Not so very long ago - when I was in Puerto Rico last - we were talking about how we happened to come together originally

9. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: HARRY MANNIS: Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio

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

11. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: I find that every day come new possibilities and new ideas and they must not be ignored

12. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: In Holland, about 20 years ago, I was conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra

13. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: It is remarkable that one can stay in the home and hear music from all over the world

14. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: It can all be expressed in one word, and that one word is 'freedom'

15. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: We must give our education of music and of philosophy and of everything connected with human life, subtlety

16. Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio: STOKOWSKI: Although I am interested in everything in the universe, what I really deeply understand is the symphonic world

17. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: HARRY MANNIS: Casals - A Portrait for Radio

18. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: 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

19. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: GALAMIR: I also think that basically Casals is a very simple person

20. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: KAHN: It was Sir Francis Bacon who said that there is no beauty which hath not some imperfection in its being

21. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: GALAMIR: Now Casals is a very strong personality

22. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: KAHN: And there's one rather interesting contradiction that is perhaps worth mentioning

23. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: GUILLERMO FIGUEROA: Last year in the festival we had played a Bruckner symphony

24. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: FELIX GALAMIR: May I inject myself, my own personality into this discussion for a moment?

25. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: KAHN: One question that was recently asked me regarding Casals, I found of special interest

26. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: PABLO CASALS: Now I say that the Marlboro School is the best possible - the best school in the world

27. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: KAHN: In the United States today, I suppose his name is most closely associated with his yearly appearances at the Marlboro Festival

28. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: KAHN: You have to understand that I am speaking not as a musicologist - music is not primarily my field

29. Casals - A Portrait for Radio: 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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