Jacqueline Du Pre

Jacqueline du Pré – Elgar & Delius: The Cello Concertos by Jacqueline du Pré (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:50 minutes | 964 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

The tragedy of du Pré’s brief career is still fresh in the public memory and can be summarised here. She was born in Oxford on 26 January 1945 into a middle-class family in which music was important: her mother was a fine pianist and a gifted teacher. The French-sounding name came from her father’s Channel Islands ancestry. Just before her fifth birthday, when she was already showing musical promise, she heard the sound of a cello on the radio and the course of her life was set. She studied at Herbert Walenn’s London Violoncello School and at ten became a pupil of William Pleeth, who had himself studied with Julius Klengel. Pleeth played with a good deal of uninhibited body movement and passed this trait on to du Pré, whose total physical involvement in her playing was to endear her to audiences. She made a successful London recital début in 1961, studied with Casals in Switzerland, Tortelier in Paris and Rostropovich in Moscow with varying degrees of success – one wonders what these players could have taught such a natural musician – and gradually consolidated her reputation at home. She began recording for EMI in 1962 and by 1965, when her famous disc of the Elgar Concerto was made, she was a star. That year she made her American début and in 1967 she married the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.

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Jacqueline du Pré – Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35 – Lalo: Cello Concerto – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:30:26 minutes | 3,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Here is a batch of absolute masterpieces of the romantic concertante cello repertoire, played with her endless energy and sensitivity. This album gathers recordings that remained long unavailable even after du Pré’s death. Don Quixote was initially meant to be recorded with Otto Klemperer as a prelude to a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, but as they didn’t get on at all the project remained unrealized. Thankfully a rehearsal session directed by Sir Adrian Boult was preserved! A few seconds of recording were missing at the very beginning but have been patched with the Klemperer version. They are coupled with concertos by Lalo (which du Pré played for her first appearance on TV in 1958) and Saint-Saëns with Daniel Barenboim. The latter is a digital premiere.

One of six new digital albums released recently by Jacqueline du Pré, all in brand new high resolution remasterings!
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Jacqueline du Pré – Joy of the Cello (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 05:16:32 minutes | 10,95 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

From Elgar and Brahms to Schumann and Dvořák, the digital collection Joy of the Cello offers a wide panorama of Jacqueline du Pré’s artistry.

One of six new digital albums released recently by Jacqueline du Pré, all in brand new high resolution remasterings!
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Jacqueline du Pré – Joy of the Cello (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 05:16:32 minutes | 10,95 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

From Elgar and Brahms to Schumann and Dvořák, the digital collection Joy of the Cello offers a wide panorama of Jacqueline du Pré’s artistry.

One of six new digital albums released recently by Jacqueline du Pré, all in brand new high resolution remasterings!
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Jacqueline du Pré – Delius: Cello Concerto, Songs of Farewell & A Song Before Sunrise (1965/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:26 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The first orchestral recording of Jacqueline du Pré (from 1965) was also the premiere on record of Frederick Delius’ ethereal cello concerto. A memorable performance still regarded as the summit of the discography. It is coupled with the tone poem A Song Before Sunrise (a true orchestral splendor), and Songs of Farewell, a cycle of compositions for double chorus after Walt Whitman’s famous Leaves of Grass.
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Jacqueline du Pré – Brahms: The Two Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Op. 38 & 99 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:22 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. A pillar of the cello repertoire, the Two Sonatas benefit from a new remastering in 192kHz/24-bit from original tapes by Art & Son Studio, Annecy.
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Jacqueline du Pré – The Great Cello Concertos: Elgar, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, Haydn… (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 04:51:03 minutes | 10,58 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Jacqueline du Pré (January 26, 1945 in Oxford – October 19, 1987 in London) was a British cellist of Jersey origin. She was also the musical partner and wife of the Israeli-Argentine pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.

In 1976, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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Jacqueline du Pré – Haydn & Monn: Cello Concertos (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:56 minutes | 1,97 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 battled the illness for a further 14 years until her death 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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