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 ...

A re-release of two of Christopher Nupen's most cherished Jacqueline du Pré films. The first is a portrait film which was epoch-making when it premiered; the second is a performance film which was ...

Jacqueline du Pré would have turned 80 this year. She’s remembered for her moving artistry, making her one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century. Hear one of her legendary performances this ...

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 ...

Richard Strauss, “Don Quixote” and “Tod und Verklaerung” (“Death and Transfiguration”), performed by the MET Orchestra, James Levine conducting and (in “Don Quixote”) cellist Jerry Grossman, violist ...

Jacqueline Du Pre was one of the greatest cellists ever. She died in 1987, never having fully realized a career that began to blossom in the 1960's. Today would have been her birthday. From one of her ...

One instant she looked like a puckish milkmaid, the next like Ophelia going mad. The music was Schumann’s cello concerto, a rapturous, heart-on-the-sleeve piece that was clearly intended to sear, not ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A silver engraved bow once owned by the cellist Jacqueline du Pré goes up for sale next week in an online auction ...

A small girl of age four living in Croydon heard a cello playing on the radio. “I want to make that noise”, she said to her mother. Her name was Jacqueline Du Pré. By the age of five she was studying ...

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 ...