Prades did not wait for the advent of Jean Castex at Matignon to resonate in the minds of many French people.
For more than seventy years now, the sub-prefecture of Pyrénées-Orientales has become, for many music lovers, an essential bastion of chamber music... A bastion whose name rhymes with that of another legend of classical music : Pablo Casals!
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Catalan cellist elevated to the rank of myth
Because it is indeed to this Catalan cellist raised to the rank of myth, both by lovers of the string instrument and by lovers of Johann Sebastian Bach, that we owe the birth, in 1950, of this future center world of chamber music, nestled in the most improbable of ways at the foot of the Canigou peak.
This “Rostropovitch from the South”, who revolutionized the image of the cello with virtuoso and over-expressive playing, will have left a lasting mark on the event.
Participating in it until the edge of his 90th birthday with incredible fervor.
Until the mid-1960s, we will find gathered around him…
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