Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

British composer Edward Elgar wrote his cello concerto in 1919 — soon after the end of World War I — and it's suffused with the dark weight of that war. That in itself is noteworthy, because ...

Just after World War I Edward Elgar was ill, his beloved wife Alice was ill (and getting mysteriously smaller and more fragile; “She seemed to be fading away before one’s very eyes,” Elgar later ...

They were the best of times: Jacqueline du Pré with two convivial partners, Pinchas Zukerman (violin) and Daniel Barenboim (piano) Again like Callas, she was a heaven-sent gift for EMI, and not a ...

"Bookends" around the concert of Jacqueline du Pré playing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by her husband Daniel Barenboim with extra footage showing more ...

A huge collection of du Pré's favourite works to perform over her wonderful, but brief, career. With works from the Classical period to the Romantic period, this collection shows her versatile range ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new production at the Royal Ballet depicts how illness robbed Jacqueline du Pré of her talent and her life. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The stirring ...

Jacqueline du Pré, was born into a middle-class English family in Oxford on 26 January 1945. Hers was a musical household, and at the age of four the young Jackie was famously struck by the sound of a ...