This isn't the Jacqueline du Pré recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto. The du Pré recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto is the 1965 studio recording with John Barbirolli conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. This is du Pré's 1970 live recording with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. What, aside from five years, is the ...
Before she landed a contract with EMI, cellist Jacqueline du Pré made a few recordings for the BBC. Or, more properly put, she made a few broadcasts for the BBC which, after she landed her EMI contract, became recordings. The du Pré of the EMI recordings was a powerful and expressive player who gave everything she had to the music she performed. ...
This is not the classic 1965 Jacqueline du Pré / John Barbirolli / London Symphony Orchestra recording of Elgar's profoundly elegiac Cello Concerto. This is a previously unreleased live recording made by du Pré and Barbirolli in Prague two years later with the BBC Symphony. Is it as good? No, of course, not: the 1965 du Pré / Barbirolli recording ...
This album is two re-releases in one: the live recording of Gerald Moore's retirement "party" in 1967 (a live recital in London's Festival Hall) and the tribute LP EMI released in 1969. Both are worthy celebrations of the finest collaborative pianist of the twentieth century, made even better by being combined into one package. That this album ...
Listening again to Jacqueline du Pré's 1970 recording of her signature piece, Elgar's passionately elegiac Cello Concerto, one can only celebrate her sensitive performance -- and regret she chose her husband, pianist turned conductor Daniel Barenboim, as her accompanist. Because as technically flamboyant and emotionally devastating as du Pré's ...
For listeners who have heard of but never heard cellist Jacqueline du Pré, this pair of discs could be an excellent introduction. Because while no one would deny the pre-eminence of her recordings of Dvorák and Elgar's Cello Concertos, in these sonatas by Brahms, Chopin, and Franck, du Pré's qualities as a player are most apparent. Lovingly ...
Even today, there are music lovers out there who get wet-eyed over the thought of cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Who can blame them? Not only was she a stupendous virtuoso, she had a warm-hearted tone and a strong-muscled style. Few listeners can deny that du Pré's recordings of the Elgar Concerto and the Dvorák Concerto are among the most affecting ...
This is not the Jacqueline du Pré studio recording of Dvorák's Cello Concerto. This is du Pré's live performance of Dvorák's Cello Concerto recorded on July 25, 1969, with Charles Groves conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. For many, perhaps most, listeners, du Pré's studio recording of the work is well neigh definitive: its power, its ...
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