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 ...

Hear a mix of two recordings made on November 23, 1936, put together by Brendan Baker for Radio Diaries. Nov. 23, 1936, was a good day for recorded music. Two men, an ocean apart, each stepped up to a ...

IN the bleak midwinter, it is difficult to track down any enticing concerts other than festive potpourris promising fun for all the family. These have their place, but there is a good case for ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One day in the late 1890s a jobbing cellist dropped into a thrift shop in Barcelona and came out with the printed ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Mozart, Concerto No. 27 (K. 595) performed by pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowki and the Perpignan Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals conducting; Mozart, Concerto No. 14 (K.449) performed by Eugene Istomin ...

Defying industry trends, the promoter-turned-label head is interested in developing "the small acts that no one looks at." By Leila Cobo Chief Content Officer Latin/Español, Billboard Pablo Casals’ ...

Pablo Casals had already played for a president and a queen, at palaces and Carnegie Hall when he settled in for a Matinee Musicale concert 100 years ago at First Methodist Church in Duluth. A News ...