It is public knowledge that famous conductor Arturo Toscanini begun his musical career as a cellist, but there was another famous conductor of the same epoch who also was a cellist before turning to conducting, and even left a very rare recording of Bach's cello and piano sonata. Who was he?

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Pablo Casals was famous as a cellist and as a conductor. Even upon achieving world renown as a conductor, he never really gave up the cello. In fact, when I was studying conducting in Jerusalem, three of my classmates (promising students at that) were cellists. Jan 13 08, 5:33 AM