Word: bach
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...program includes two Bach cantatas, two choruses from Handel's Jeptha, and some sacred songs by Sweelinch...
When Cellist Pablo Casals staged a Bach festival in the French Pyrenees town of Prades last year, he did not so much come out of retirement as invite others to join him in it. Last week, playing in the airy courtyard of Perpignan's 13th Century Palace of the Kings of Majorca, Casals was really out in the open. He made a 30-mile move from Prades to more accessible Perpignan; fellow musicians and some 2,000 music lovers made global pilgrimages to hear...
Last year's festival honored Bach; this year's get-together was frankly in honor of Casals himself. The composer whose work dominated the program: Mozart. ("After Bach," says Casals, "it is Mozart I like most...
...Mozart, which he directed from a pillow-padded armchair, was sometimes hampered by lack of rehearsal and by lack of a disciplined first-rate orchestra, but at its best it showed the same deep understanding and respect for the composer's intentions as does Casals' Bach...
Most of those who flocked to Perpignan thought little of the discomfort. Said Soprano Jennie Tourel, who gave stirring performances of Mozart and Bach arias: "Casals literally radiates music. He just makes you sing." Said Pianist Rudolf Serkin, whose Beethoven and Bach sonatas with Casals were festival high points: "Without looking at him you feel all his intentions. We understand each other like an old happily married couple...