JACQUELINE DU PRE - Favourite Cello Concertos Box Set

	£		55
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JACQUELINE DU PRE, Favourite Cello concertos

3 LPs in a beautiful box set in excellent condition with original booklet. On the EMI label SLS 895, original issue from 1969. 
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H. 7b/1  Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn  with English Chamber Orchestra, Jacqueline du Pre  Conducted by Daniel Barenboim  Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, H. 7b/2 (Op. 101)  Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn  Performed by London Symphony Orchestra  with Jacqueline du Pre  Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli  Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129  Composed by Robert Schumann  Performed by New Philharmonia Orchestra  with Jacqueline du Pre  Conducted by Daniel Barenboim 
Cello Concerto in B minor, B. 191 (Op. 104)  Composed by Antonin Dvorak  Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra  with Jacqueline du Pre  Conducted by Daniel Barenboim  Cello Concerto in E minor (also arr. as Viola Concerto by F.Salmond), Op. 85  Composed by Edward Elgar  Performed by London Symphony Orchestra  with Jacqueline du Pre  Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli 

During her far-too-brief career, cellist Jacqueline du Pré exhibited an almost oracular power of communication. Her performances bristled with the kind of brilliant electricity that could change lives and convert listeners to a lifelong love of music. Happily, it's possible to experience a sense of that power from the recordings du Pré completed before multiple sclerosis halted her career as a performer in the early 1970s. This set provides a splendid portrait--at bargain price--of du Pré's unmistakable personality: the astonishingly original yet convincing phrasing, raw energy, and ability to make her instrument sound uncannily like a human voice (du Pré was after all a favored student of Mstislav Rostropovich). Her rendition of Haydn's Concerto in C is clearly cast in a romantic--and nowadays perhaps unfashionable--mold, yet du Pré's big, bold tone carries the musical line forward with exhilarating presence. It's a demeanor that proves especially reassuring for the quirkily mercurial inventions of Boccherini. Yet du Pré most indelibly leaves her signature on the work that became her hallmark, Edward Elgar's E Minor Concerto, grafting a deeply personal level of expression onto the score's rich post-World War I melancholy. In the Schumann, du Pré makes an eloquently passionate protagonist. A similar sense of excitement is to be heard in Dvorák's Concerto--performed near the end of her career--above all in the flame of inspiration she evidently sparks from the orchestra in the serene close of its slow movement. This is a supremely rewarding collection for the beginner and aficionado alike. 

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