One of the greatest and by far the best-known cellist of his generation, Pablo Casals recorded a series of encore pieces and staples of the cello repertoire during 1915–16. In them we catch much of the essence of Casals’s playing, from a superb sense of rhythm in the dance movements to his wonderful parlando quality. This volume in Casals’ complete 78rpm acoustic recordings includes Casals’s most famous arrangement, Fauré’s song Après un rêve, now regarded almost as if the composer had written it for cello.