Sonatas by Garreta and Gerhard

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Image courtesy of L'Auditori

The cello is one of composer Juli Garreta’s most beloved instruments. Intimate friends with both Pau Casals and Bonaventura Dini, he dedicated various works to them, to be performed on cello and piano. The piece Mar Plana premiered with Dini himself on cello and with Enric Granados on piano. 

By contrast, the Sonata in F major is part of a set of large-format compositions, rooted in the Germanic tradition of Beethoven and Brahms. Pau Casals performed it often, but it practically disappeared from concert programs after the 1930s. Decades later, in London, Robert Gerhard rewrote an old sonata for viola and turned it into the Sonata for Cello, which alternates serialism and popular elements with the heterodoxy that characterizes Gerhard’s music.

See these magical pieces performed live at the L’Auditori in Barcelona.

Performers:

• Romain Garioud, cello
• Daniel Blanch, piano

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