Folklore Catalan : Εl Cant dels Ocells - Pablo Casals

Folklore Catalan : Εl Cant dels Ocells - Pablo Casals
Prades Festival Orchestra Recorded 1950, Prades

The Cant dels Ocells - The song of the birds is a catalan folksong to which Casals added a piano accompaniment and wich he began playing regularly from 1941.
In this melody of the greatest mysticism you will hear the expression of a melancholy corresponding to the sadness of our time, from which my country was the first to suffer...
This words was from Pau Casals his announcement during the second world war after his first play in Bern.
Νοw...these words became mine thoughts for my country Hellas...thank you for listening...

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[occupyyourmind2]

Thank you very much for posting this magnificent composition by the best cellist ever! Pau Casals was a gift for humankind. . .his courageous statements in face of the Franco fascists is documented history.

May the fascism that is now spreading in many nations be subdues and may real justice prevail.

[Ariadnimusiclover]

@occupyyourmind2 Ηis talent is so high thank you for your comment I agree with you!!

[MrRiveraRosa]

Thank you for your message, Ariadnimusic lover. I had listened to this very same version at the web site EPDLP. Seems superior to the recording from the White House and the United Nations. There it is also other version of substandard sound quality that apparently was played by him at his home, here in Puerto Rico, my island.

[Ariadnimusiclover]

@MrRiveraRosa thank you so much you must be pround for you country and the big artist!!! I lovw Pablo Casals...

[MrRiveraRosa]

This it is the very best version of Cant dels Ocells.

[Ariadnimusiclover]

@MrRiveraRosa  Yes I agree with you thank you...

[MrRiveraRosa]

@Ariadnimusiclover Cant dels Ocells, Song of the Birgs or Canto de las Aves, belongs to the Catalonian folklore. It is based on a Salm from the Christian Bible, that tells the story of birds that traveled to visit the just born Messiah.

[MrRiveraRosa]

@Ariadnimusiclover. Thank You very much for your comment. Paul Casals Defillo was Catalonian, but his mother was born in a small town of Puerto Rico, before leaving to Catalunya. Eventually Casals married Mrs. Martita Casals, his student at Prades, who was also from Puerto Rico. He came here and founded the Festival Casals. A small museum dedicated to him was established at Old San Juan. 

[Ariadnimusiclover]

Το αφιερώνω σε όλους του Έλληνες που πέρασαν και περνούν πολλά στο πέρασμα των δεκαετιών και σαν γνήσια παλικάρια άντεξαν....και θα συνεχίζουν να αντέχουν σε όλα τα χτυπήματα των χαλεπών καιρών...