Prades Festival Orchestra

The Prades Festival Orchestra was an orchestra associated with the Prades Festival in France.

The festival is closely linked with Pablo Casals and chamber-music performance after the Second World War.

The orchestra name identifies festival forces rather than a permanent civic orchestra.

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SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
DVORAK Cello Concerto (stereo recording)

Studio and Live Recordings · 1953 and 1960
Total duration: 64:30

Pablo Casals, cello
Prades Festival Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico, Alexander Schneider

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BACH Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007–1012
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102; Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata No. 4 in A, G4
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto in B minor (1937 and 1960 recordings; the latter in stereo)
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D898
Shorter works by FAURÉ, GODARD, GRANADOS and SAINT-SAËNS

Studio and live recordings, 1926–1960
Total duration: 6:13:29

Pablo Casals, cello
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Alfred Cortot, piano and conductor of the Pablo Casals Orchestra
Blas Net, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Nicolai Mednikov, piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Szell
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Prades Festival Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico, conducted by Alexander Schneider