Cellist Pablo Casals interview + performance (1955)

In a home interview in Prades, France, cellist Pablo Casals - Pau Casals i Defilló - talks with former student Madeline Foley about style, technique, conducting, family, his introduction to music, and his voluntary exile from Franco’s regime. Hear him perform one of Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello and a tribute to his native Spain. Listen to Casals perform Bach’s Cello Suites on Amazon: Check out “The Cello Suites: JS Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece“: Join us on Patreon! Donate Crypto! He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but he is perhaps best rememb