Jacqueline Du Pre

Jacqueline du Pré – Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85 & Sea Pictures, Op. 37 (1965/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:52 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘Miss du Pré allows herself to muse as Elgar’s music itself muses, but she never for a moment overdoes indulgence and each movement has its own strength and coherence. This is on no account to be missed.’ Gramophone Magazine
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Jacqueline du Pré – Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50 (1985/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:41 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded live from Tel Aviv in 1972, this piano trio by Tchaikovsky marks Jacqueline du Pré’s farewell to the music industry, the effects of her sclerosis becoming too invasive to allow her playing. For her swan song on record, she is surrounded by the two closest partners of her career: her husband Daniel Barenboim and her long-time friend Pinchas Zukerman.
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Jacqueline du Pré – Her Early BBC Recordings (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:52:49 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist. At a young age, she achieved enduring mainstream popularity. Despite her short career, she is regarded as one of the greatest cellists of all time.

Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at the age of 28; she died 14 years later at the age of 42.

She was the subject of the 1998 biographical film Hilary and Jackie, which attracted criticism for perceived inaccuracy and sensationalism.
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Jacqueline du Pré – Dvorak: Cello Concerto (1971/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:08 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
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Jackie was always the most exciting cellist,” Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pré’s fellow-cellist, has said. “It would be hard to think of another that took as many risks as she did… always for expressive reasons. There is no other artist who can transfer that sense of excitement onto vinyl.” Here, with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, du Pré performs perhaps the most widely-loved of all cello concertos, Dvorák’s lyrical and stirring epic.
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Jacqueline du Pré – A Jacqueline du Pré Recital (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:31 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Jackie’s musical gift, cellistic prowess and personality were so inseparable that it made her probably one of the most unique musical personalities ever to perform on the stage,” says the great violinist Itzhak Perlman, who knew Jacqueline du Pré well. “Her ability to communicate her art to her audience was uncanny. Besides her flawless and effortless technique, her command of an enormous array of colours was quite phenomenal.” Perlman’s words are borne out by this recital of popular works, in which du Pré’s partners include guitarist John Williams and pianist Gerald Moore.
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