Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Ibert: Concerto for Cello & Wind Instruments (2002)

This is not the Jacqueline du Pré studio recording of Dvorák's Cello Concerto. This is du Pré's live performance of Dvorák's Cello Concerto recorded on July 25, 1969, with Charles Groves conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. For many, perhaps most, listeners, du Pré's studio recording of the work is well neigh definitive: its power, its passion, its sheer emotional commitment making her recording compulsive listening. And for those listeners who already know du Pré's studio recording, this live performance will be ... Read More

This is not the Jacqueline du Pré studio recording of Dvorák's Cello Concerto. This is du Pré's live performance of Dvorák's Cello Concerto recorded on July 25, 1969, with Charles Groves conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. For many, perhaps most, listeners, du Pré's studio recording of the work is well neigh definitive: its power, its passion, its sheer emotional commitment making her recording compulsive listening. And for those listeners who already know du Pré's studio recording, this live performance will be more of the same, only more so. Because if du Pré in the studio was powerful, passionate, and committed, du Pré live is herself even more so. Her tone is incredibly powerful and intensely lyrical. Her lines are immensely passionate and enormously expressive. And her interpretation is so overwhelmingly emotionally committed that everyone listening to her performance no doubt broke out in a hot sweat. Although there are some minor flaws in du Pré's technique that become apparent when she... Read Less