On holiday in Prades last summer, I paid a visit to Pablo Casals' living room, housed in the local museum-cum-library. (There's also a cast of his hands, which were surprisingly big and fleshy - more like a boxer's, really.) Here's footage of the town's most famous resident playing the Catalan melody Song of the Birds, a piece he often performed as an encore.
Incidentally, Britain's Stephen Isserlis delivers a terrific version in this Newsnight clip.
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