The myths of classical music are layered with historical facts and romantic imagination. Pablo Casals, 1876–1973, a Spanish cello virtuoso, was no exception. It is often described how the 13-year-old ...

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’ ...

Cellist Pablo Casals, 1914(Ferdinand Schmutzer/ Wikimedia Commons) Pablo Casals made musical history with his cello, playing for kings, queens and presidents around the world. But following his death ...

28 July 1960: The Guardian revisits the music festival started by cellist Pablo Casals in his adopted home of Prades, France Any concert at which Pablo Casals appears is an important musical event.

Alberto Ginastera's Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals exists in two versions. The original, for string quintet and string orchestra, was first performed in 1976, while a subsequent expansion for full ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE—Amit Peled heard his first cello recording at age 10 while living on an Israeli kibbutz, not long after he took up the instrument to impress a girl. One day, he popped a tape he’d been given ...

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 ...