Even today, 50 years after his death in October 1973 at age 96, Pablo Casals remains the world’s most celebrated cellist—the man and his instrument inextricably linked in the minds of music lovers the ...

When Amit Peled was 10, his parents gave him a gift: a cassette of music by cello master Pablo Casals. Peled had no classical background; his parents were not musicians. He says his own budding ...

“It is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.” Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with ...

When Pablo Casals set to work on an oratorio titled El Presebre (The Manger) in 1943, he intended it to be performed on the occasion of Franco’s downfall. In the 17 years since then, El Caudillo has ...

Nov. 23, 1936, was a good day for recorded music. Two men, an ocean apart, each stepped up to a microphone and began to play. One was a cello prodigy who had performed for the queen of Spain; the ...

The celebrated cellist capped a concert with the New York Philharmonic with a work that Pablo Casals often played to protest war and oppression. By Javier C. Hernández After a rousing performance of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born in Catalonia, Pau Casals was the ...

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Two hugely important recordings, made by pivotal musicians an ocean apart, were made on the same day in 1936. Robert Johnson And Pablo Casals' Game-Changers Turn 75 Robert Johnson And Pablo Casals' ...