Research Catalog

Title

The adventures of a cello / Carlos Prieto ; translated by Elena C. Murray ; foreword by Álvaro Mutis.

Author

Prieto, Carlos, 1937-

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2006.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Murray, Elena C.

Description

xv, 350 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Alternative Title

• From Bach to Piazzolla, Carlos Prieto, cello.
• Carlos Prieto, cello, from Bach to Piazzolla.

Subjects

• Cello
• Prieto, Carlos, 1937-

Note

• Translated from the Spanish, originally published in 1998 under title: Las aventuras de un violonchelo.
• Title of accompanying compact disc: From Bach to Piazzolla, Carlos Prieto, cello.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-336), discography (p. [311]-314), and index.

Contents

• A brief history of violin making. Observations on the origin of violins and cellos ; Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù, and the great Italian violin makers -- The adventures of a Stradivari cello from 1720 to the present. The adventures of a Stradivari cello : from Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979 ; A brief autobiographical note ; Around the world with the Piatti ; My relationship with the music and musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal -- A brief history of music for cello from the time of Stradivari to the present. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; From Beethoven to the end of the nineteenth century ; The twentieth and twenty-first centuries : the cello comes of age.
• Contents of compact disc from publisher's WWW site: List of Works Performed by Carlos Prieto on Accompanying CD. 1. J.S. Bach, Courante from Suite no. 6 in D Major for solo cello -- 2. J.S. Bach, Gavotte from Suite no. 6 in D Major for solo cello -- 3. Dmitry Shostakovich, Allegro from the Cello Sonata in D Minor, op. 40. Doris Stevenson, piano -- 4. Dmitry Shostakovich, Scherzo from the Viola Sonata, op. 147; transcribed for the cello by Carlos Prieto. Doris Stevenson, piano -- 5. Manuel de Falla, "Nana" from Suite popular española. Edison Quintana, piano -- 6. Manuel de Falla, "El Paño Moruno" from Suite popular española. Edison Quintana, piano -- 7. Astor Piazzolla, Milonga. Edison Quintana, piano -- 8. Astor Piazzolla, Le grand tango. Edison Quintana, piano -- 9. Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras, Canción en el puerto. Edison Quintana, piano -- 10. Marlos Nobre, Appassionato from Partita Latina, op. 92. Edison Quintana, piano -- 11. Marlos Nobre, Vivo from Partita Latina, op. 92. Edison Quintana, piano -- 12. Samuel Zyman, Danzando from the Suite for Two Cellos, with Jesús Castro-Balbi, cello -- 13. Samuel Zyman, Allegro energico from the Suite for Two Cellos, with Jesús Castro-Balbi, cello -- 14. Roberto Sierra, Vivo from Four Verses for Cello and Orchestra. Orquesta de las Américas, Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor -- 15. Mario Lavista, Allegro giocoso e leggiero, the second of Three Secular Pieces. Edison Quintana, piano -- 16. Federico Ibarra, Presto from the Cello Concerto. Orquesta de las Américas, Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor -- 17. Alberto Ginastera-Fournier, Triste. Edison Quintana, piano -- 18. Eugenio Toussaint, Presto with swing from Cello Concerto no. 2. Orquesta de las Américas, Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor.

Call Number

JME 07-253

ISBN

• 0292713223 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780292713222 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006001346

OCLC

63122776

Author

Prieto, Carlos, 1937-

Title

The adventures of a cello / Carlos Prieto ; translated by Elena C. Murray ; foreword by Álvaro Mutis.

Imprint

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2006.

Edition

1st University of Texas Press ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-336), discography (p. [311]-314), and index.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Added Author

Murray, Elena C. Translator

Added Title

From Bach to Piazzolla, Carlos Prieto, cello.

Carlos Prieto, cello, from Bach to Piazzolla.

Research Call Number

JME 07-253 [Text]

*LDC 26672 [CD]