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Echoes Festival: Laura Peribañez & Katie Tertell

Lost in Plain Sight: Gaspar Cassadó’s Iberian Musical Legacy

Part of the Echoes Festival 2025

Add to my Calendar 27-11-2025 19:00 27-11-2025 21:00 36 Echoes Festival: Laura Peribañez & Katie Tertell Catalan cellist, Laura Peribañez, and Cassadó specialist, Katie Tertell, join forces in this delightful programme for the unusual formats of solo and duo cello, inspired by the Spanish cellist Gaspar Gassadó and his legacies as a performer, arranger and composer. While most classical music lovers and scholars are familiar with Pablo Casals (1876-1973), few, even in Spain and Catalonia, will know the name of Gaspar Cassadó, his compatriot and most beloved disciple. Both were world-renowned cellists with distinguished careers. Cassadó (1897-1966) is also a respected composer of classical music whose pieces continue to be played by cellists around the globe. But as Casals became an international symbol for Catalan culture and peace, Cassadó’s ties to the Iberian Peninsula were mostly forgotten. This project examines the erasure of this connection as it exposes Spain’s difficult modern history, interrupted by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the enduring legacy of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). By recovering Cassadó’s cultural and musical significance we can engage with Spain’s complex twentieth-century soundscape and the incomplete history of its modern classical music. In this lecture-recital, Professor Rosi Song will also provide commentary on the programme. This event is organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2025 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes with the kind support of Durham University’s Research Impact Fund (UK)   Instituto Cervantes, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Instituto Cervantes
Sala Luis Cernuda
15-19, Devereux Court
Temple
London
WC2R 3JJ
England

Programme

Luigi Boccherini – Sonata for Two Cellos in C Major, G74
Gaspar Cassadó – Suite for Solo Cello
Ailbhe McDonagh – Dance Suite for Solo Cello: 'Ballet'
Natalie Haas – The Reformer/The Investigator
Sarah Gibson – As One Who Loves Poetry
Pablo Casals – Song of the Birds

Performers

Katie Tertell – cello
Laura Peribañez Artero – cello
Professor Rosi Song – Speaker

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Programme Note

Catalan cellist, Laura Peribañez, and Cassadó specialist, Katie Tertell, join forces in this delightful programme for the unusual formats of solo and duo cello, inspired by the Spanish cellist Gaspar Gassadó and his legacies as a performer, arranger and composer.

While most classical music lovers and scholars are familiar with Pablo Casals (1876-1973), few, even in Spain and Catalonia, will know the name of Gaspar Cassadó, his compatriot and most beloved disciple. Both were world-renowned cellists with distinguished careers. Cassadó (1897-1966) is also a respected composer of classical music whose pieces continue to be played by cellists around the globe.

But as Casals became an international symbol for Catalan culture and peace, Cassadó’s ties to the Iberian Peninsula were mostly forgotten.

This project examines the erasure of this connection as it exposes Spain’s difficult modern history, interrupted by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the enduring legacy of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). By recovering Cassadó’s cultural and musical significance we can engage with Spain’s complex twentieth-century soundscape and the incomplete history of its modern classical music.

In this lecture-recital, Professor Rosi Song will also provide commentary on the programme.

This event is organised by the Iberian & Latin American Music Society (ILAMS) as part of Echoes Festival 2025 in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes with the kind support of Durham University’s Research Impact Fund (UK)

 

Katie Tertell cello

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