Perpignan Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals - The Casals Festivals Perpignan 1951, Volume 1: Mozart - Piano Concertos (2002)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Pearl | Catalog: GEMS0167
Spanish cellist Pablo Casals ceased performing in 1946 to protest the world's indifference to the oppressive Franco regime then in power in his homeland. The silence of the cellist, then in his 70s, was keenly felt by the millions who loved him. When he returned to concertizing in 1950, at first it was only to honor Bach, who had died two hundred years before. Violinist Alexander Schneider (of the Budapest Quartet) was integral in coaxing Casals out of his silence and in planning what became known as the Prades Bach Festival.