Cassado Suite for Cello Solo, 1. Preludio-Fantasia | Yoon-Kyung Cho

Cellist Yoon-Kyung Cho (CelloDeck) Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu (30 September or 5 October 1897 – 24 December 1966) was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father, Joaquim Cassadó, and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to teach him. The city of Barcelona awarded him a scholarship so that he could study with Casals in Paris. The Suite, like the Cello Concerto and the Piano Trio, came from one Cassadó’s most prolific periods, in the mid-1920s. It consists of three dance movements: Preludio-Fantasia (a Zarabanda); Sardana; and Intermezzo e Danza Finale (a Jota). The first movement includes quotations from Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 8, and the famous flute solo from Maurice Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé. from Wikipedia ----------------------------------