Jacqueline du Pré: 5 Legendary Recordings

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Jacqueline du Pré: 5 Legendary Recordings
Jacqueline du Pré (cello) with Herbert Downes (viola), Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Janet Baker (mezzo)

[ Warner Classics LP / 5 LP ]

Release Date: Wednesday 22 November 2017

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'She clearly was born to play the cello,' wrote the New York Times of Jacqueline du Pré in 1967. Just five years later her career was cut tragically short by illness. Providing a treasurable memento of her art, this is a newly-assembled 5 LP collection of masterworks for cello and orchestra from three centuries. It includes the Elgar Concerto, so closely associated with du Pré, and a 1968 recording of Strauss's Don Quixote which, after a complex genesis, was not released until 1995, the height of the CD era. Now, it makes its first appearance on LP. In each work, the cellist provides evidence of what her teacher, William Pleeth, described as the 'perfect balance of youth and maturity.'

Tracks:

Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37
Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat major, G 482
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Strauss, R: Don Quixote, Op. 35
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
Dvorak: Waldesruhe (Silent woods) for cello and orchestra, Op. 68 No. 5