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 ...

An encapsulation of Jacqueline du Pré's unique talent and musicality. A unique insight into Jacqueline du Pré's innate talent as a cellist from esteemed musicians, like Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta ...

PERHAPS the most striking feature of this wonderful 1963 recording of Jacqueline du Pre playing Schumann's Cello Concerto for German radio is the comprehensive display of her gifts, already ...

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Jacqueline du Pré’s offstage persona was irreverent, kind and compassionate. She had a mind that was both keenly intelligent and relentlessly curious. Onstage she was known to give everything to the ...

Jacqueline du Pré's influence on classical music, with a backdrop Schubert's Trout Quintet. In the summer of 1969, five young stars of the classical music industry came together to perform Schubert's ...

Blondes can break your heart. They don’t always use a cello. In “Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy,” narrator Yo-Yo Ma—who knows what he’s talking about—describes the documentary’s subject as ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It was brazen, instinctive, impassioned. It was a performance that divided the critics. It was, in short, everything ...

Goethe was so moved by Des Knaben Wunderhorn (‘The Youth’s Magic Horn’), a collection of folk poetry published in Germany between 1805 and 1808, that he famously declared that every household should ...

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 ...