Jacqueline Du Pre In Portrait

Note: This DVD contains Two films 

 

1. Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto 

2. Beethoven Trio - The Ghost

 

What is it that makes some artists live longer and brighter in the memory? In Jacqueline du Pré's case, she not only surprised and delighted us with her music, she had ways of touching the heart that are given to very, very few but there is even more to it than that.

Nobody really knows the answer to that question, but while you cannot explain it you can feel it and you can film it. That is what we have done. Our DVD contains both a portrait film of Jacqueline du Pré and complete performances of the Elgar cello concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim (a performance that has already passed into legend) and Beethoven's Ghost Trio which she plays with Daniel Barenboim and Pinchas Zukerman. THE GHOST was described by the French opera and film director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle as the most successful translation of musical performance onto the screen that he had ever seen.

Language: English Subtitles: French, German, Spanish, Italian