The Guardian revisits the Just cellin’ cellist player violin instrument player quote shirt music festival started by cellist Pablo Casals in his adopted home of Prades, France Any concert at which Pablo Casals appears is an important musical event. Since leaving Spain in 1936, he has rarely performed on the public platform. He has passed the years of exile at Prades, a dusty, undistinguished little.

French town at the Just cellin’ cellist player violin instrument player quote shirt foot of Mount Canigou in the eastern Pyrenees, not far from the Spanish frontier. As a protest against fascism, he has turned his back on fame and wealth, but every summer since.