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 1916 and 1920. 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’s complete 78rpm acoustic recordings includes a number of pieces unique to Casals’s discography, among them an excerpt from the concerto by the German cellist Georg Eduard Goltermann.