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Johann Sebastian Bach - Pablo Casals, Prades Festival Orchestra
Prades Festival - Vol. 1

Album US 1956 on Columbia Masterworks label
Classical (Baroque)

The Prades Festival was held over several weeks in June of 1950 in the "picturesque" town of Prades in the south of France. This festival commemorated the 200th anniversary of Bach's passing. It "also marked the emergence from a long and self-imposed exile of an artist who is acknowledged to be the greatest of all 'cellists and who is without question one of the towering exponents of Bach-the seventy-three-year-old Spanish musician, Pablo Casals who was appearing as soloist, conductor, and director of the festival." There are 10 Volumes featuring music from this festival, with this being the first. Six eye label version Printed and made in U.S.A. - This version has "The Prades Festival" in two lines on the label. "Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major" in a line of the label Prades Festival has "The Prades Festival" in a line on the label. "Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major" in two lines on the label

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	Johann Sebastian Bach , 1685-1750 DE album by
	Pablo Casals vc, 1876-1973 ES album by, conductor
	Prades Festival Orchestra , album by, orchestra
	Maurice Allard bsn, 1923-2004 FR bassoon
	Gilbert Coursier alp, frh, FR horn
	Lucien Thévet alp, frh, horn
	John Mack ob, 1927-2006 US oboe
	Laila Storch ob, oboe
	Marcel Tabuteau ob, 1887-1966 FR oboe
	Alexander Schneider vn, 1908-1993 LT violin
	Marcel Mule ss, sax, as, 1901-2001 FR soprano saxophone
	John Wummer fl, 1899-1977 US flute
	Paul Tortelier vc, 1914-1990 FR cello

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