At the PRADES Festival
By way of devotion to PABLO CAZALS [sic!]
the soloists become orchestral musicians
(from our special correspondent Hélène Jourdan-Morhange)

Prades, 7 June [1951] (by telephone): The Prades Festival continues…  I do not dare say the Festival Casals, as the maestro has made it clear: This is a Bach Festival, not a Casals Festival.  …

In contrast [to the second], the third concert [of 3] was sensational.  … 

To close, the celebrated violinist, Isaac Stern, and Marcel Tabuteau, the oboist whose brilliant career in Philadelphia is well known, played with the orchestra the concerto in C minor for oboe and violin.  This was perhaps the summit of all we heard.  (Casals is beyond comparison.)

It is difficult, for a violin, to withstand comparison with an oboe, this magnificent instrument which deepens its furrow in the sonic material with the clarity of an engraver’s needle, especially when this oboe is entrusted to Marcel Tabuteau.  This oboist is of infinite breath and whose style is of a high refinement. And well, Isaac Stern, by the purity of his sound and knowledgeable phrasing achieved the miracle.

Supported by the orchestra and directed by Casals, these two artists reached the limits of perfection.

English translation (relevant sections) by Michael Finkelman