Pablo Casals Video

I was perusing the web looking for some videos to show my students and I came across this mini-documentary of Pablo Casals. The first part is narrative and provides some background, but the greatest part follows. He is shown in a brief segment working with an adult student. Casals’ comments are quite interesting as is listening to the difference between his playing and that of his very accomplished student.

The most intriguing part of this video is Casals’ performance of the Bach Cello Suite #1 in G. He is at this time 77 years old and his performance is amazing. While the video and the audio are not in sync, the quality of both is very good. Casals is a study in posture and position, fluidity and musicality.

This is from Google video and there is a button so that you can download this on your computer in the format for your Ipod. Here is a link so that you can go directly to the page and download it, if you want. Enjoy!

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