Pau Casals: Bach Cello Solo Nr.1, BWV 1007 ()

(written by win081, June 10, 2011) In August 1954, at age of 77 Pau Casals (1876-1973) performed Bach’s G-Major Cello Solo at Abbaye “Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa“, a Catholic monastery located south of the small border town Prades in France (Catalonia of Spain is on the other side of border). Pau Casals settled in Prades in earlier 1940’s after the Spanish civil war in 1930’s, and he came back to Prada as the conductor and cellist at “Prades Festival“ in 1950’s. A small museum in Prades is dedicated to the memory