Jacqueline du Pré - Dvořák Cello Concerto - London Symphony Orchestra cond. Daniel Barenboim

[@2baSelkie]

I attended this consert, a memory I shall always treasure. So lovely , she was just too good for this world. R.I.P. Jacqueline.

[@janauknic]

I heard Du Pré with this Dvorak Concerto a year later in the Royal Albert Hall. That was with Charles Groves and the Liverpool Symphony Orchestra. It was my first visit to England and London. I didn't know her then. Now I am proud that I attended this concert during the Proms.

[@robertkim3066]

I wish I was born earlier in time so I could attend to one of her concerts. It would be such a privilege to listen to her play.

[@randifishenfeld]

LOVE! Beautiful comment

[@AnaMorales-cr8rt]

@@janauknic

[@theodorefalconer5395]

The candle that burns brightest burns twice as fast.

[@dreninger]

I can never understand why classical music is so underappreciated . This performance is so dramatic and powerfully performed. We need to do a better job with music education .

[@randifishenfeld]

I whole heartedly agree.

[@keltus_warrior6491]

I suspect some of it has to do with how a person grew up. I was exposed to classical, big band and country & western. That broad scope of musical exposure has served as a blessing!

[@StuckInAnEternalLoop]

It sounds really nice in my opinion... But the time aspect is often a problem for me. I often don't have the patience to listen to a certain music for 45 minutes and or no time in general.

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

@@keltus_warrior6491 So true. We like what music we listened to when we were young as like our home base. I remember when they took music off our school curriculum which was really awful. Music is integral to development along with any arts. We made music before we developed language. I grew up with The Beatles because my dad was a Superfan and a fine singer. I also loved ABBA and Queen. I love The Beach Boys too and so learned to play many of these songs on guitar and piano. I loved certain pieces of Classical music without knowing their names but it was Air On G String and Cannon Bach ect...Now I just love Classical music and can't really get enough of it. It has developed my ear somewhat because it has sounds that don't appear in popular music like Bach combining chromaticism with diatonic circle of 5ths from his 40th symphony which just sounds Godlike to me hearing stuff like this for the first time. Debussy is my favorite at the moment.

[@keltus_warrior6491]

@@MICKEYISLOWD I grew up in the 1950's, coming of age in the early sixties. I studied piano for three years under the tutelage of a graduate from Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore MD. I stopped my lessons at age 13. My piano tutor told me once that she allowed me to play popular music of the way I "expressed myself" through the keys. My dad was a fiddler/violinist/harmonicist, amateur. Several generations ago, my family makde violins. "It is in the blood", as the saying goes. Thank you for your thoughtful reply!

[@jacquelinedesanctis7082]

I went to the same school as Jacqueline.... Queen's College in London..she was just a kid and was studying part time as she was following cello lessons and training. We saw her on occasions with her bright red hair. A very unusual young girl. Her story was tragic she was so gifted, so exceptional and when she played the cello she moved us all. What a loss for humanity.

[@hadiyahalkauthar]

@@jacquelinedesanctis7082 I thought she was blonde.

[@Beethovens7th]

Dear KZbin, please do not interrupt a video like this with ads. Make me watch them at the beginning if you have to and don't let me skip them, anything other than the crime against humanity of penetrating innocent ears with obnoxious ad voices in the middle of what might be the finest piece of cello-playing ever recorded.

[@cassianblackburn-enever9662]

You can purchase the KZbin premium subscription to remove ads 😊

[@josephhapp9]

Beethovens7th nothing of quality comes for free. Be grateful and pay for youtube premium.

[@ReptileTheDestroyer]

I always found it interesting how easy it is to herd people like sheep; youtube literally takes features away and makes you pay money to get them back and all these people here in response are like "yea you should pay for it and not complain :)" ummm how about no, you can spend your money stupidly, I will stick to adblock and never see an ad again. suggest you do the same @Beethovens7th

[@Beethovens7th]

@@josephhapp9 "Beethovens7th nothing of quality comes for free." Thanks for the massive oversimplification. Guess you didn't read the part where I said "put them at the beginning and don't allow me to skip them." Happy to suffer through ads or pay for things of quality, generally speaking, yes. Interrupting a concerto with loud, jarring videos, however, is simply bad manners.

[@Beethovens7th]

@@ReptileTheDestroyer Thanks, didn't realize that would work on these. These people are missing the point. Interrupting a concerto is just plain rude. Ads are fine, in general, but there are some lines we shouldn't be crossing for money.

[@anneliesreeves2637]

I was there. Amazing concert. I'd just come out of Russia through Czechoslovakia. Russia was invading. The concert was a fundraiser for Czech refugees. History repeats itself.

[@honzavlcek4021]

I found out about this concert in support of my country almost fifty years later, most Czechs still don't know about it, but it's still beautiful and moving.

[@katiavonaltrock1584]

that 's sadrly true ! when does it end, noone knows !

[@gregfaris6959]

It's just amazing to see how many people responding on this thread have a genuine personal connection, one way or another. It fleshes out a real person, who made a real and meaningful contribution.

[@jeffphillips5190]

The concert actually took place at the end of August (not in September) 1968. The people of Prague woke up on the morning of August 21st, to realise that Warsaw Pact forces had invaded their country overnight. The concert was held on the following Monday (which was a Bank Holiday). I attended the concert and remember it as probably the most emotionally-charged public event I ever witnessed. There were many Czech men and women in the audience -- wearing red-and-white badges and colours in their lapels and dresses -- and openly weeping throughout the performance. The impact of the political events, the concert itself and the atmosphere among the audience will remain with me for the rest of my life.

[@akersification]

amazing, thanks for this

[@jhartley8441]

J.P. - What a fine story and what lucky timing for me! I'm listening to this cuz I'm gonna see a 14-year old perform it next week and i wanted to get familiar with the concerto. Your description reminds me of the premiere of Shostakovich' 7th in Leningrad during their WWII siege.

[@hudsonlawrence]

that is the one of the most powerful youtube comments ive ever read. thank you

[@heinergallenkamper5864]

Dear Jeff, what a moving experience. I rarely have tears in my eyes when I attend concerts, even more rarely when I see and hear them via youtube. But here they were necessary and appropriate. It is "only" culture, but in such moments we feel what we live for. God bless you and the Czech people.

[@violin3394]

Beautifully said

[@professoremu]

"2 minutes please while i change my string" i love her

[@jamien.5528]

Time stamp?

[@tesscrelli783]

@@jamien.5528 29:35 29:41 might be closer

[@emilydjokovic7561]

@@jamien.5528 your pic profile😂

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

It takes me 15 mins just to change and tune a guitar string...lol

[@davidw.montague5376]

Judging by her passionate, super-energized playing, the broken string is not surprising. She was adorable, soulful and super-talented.

[@marym.garcia4147]

I can always tell when her music is playing on the radio, every note comes alive. Her talent continues to bring joy to so many. Her musicality was remarkable. Her life an inspiration.

[@reginaltedbrown]

I'm 81 years old ,thank GOD for allowing me to enjoy this performance .

[@quaver1239]

Jacqueline is still without equal, for me. She remains one of the very few instrumentalists who can send shivers up and down my spine. Her husband’s pianism certainly could not do that. In addition, she was a kind and generous person. A radiant star.

[@GinaLoveAguilar]

Her playing just sent shivers up my spine too! The other instrumentalist who can do that is the great pianist Martha Argerich.

[@zamfully]

The greatest cellist that ever lived and most likely ever will.she was the greatest cellist ever and will remain so for ever. No cellist comes close to her marvelous talent.

[@alecwilliams7111]

Wow!!!!! Dvorak's concerto is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. DurPre was one of the great musicians of the 20th century, and her destruction and death from MS was a loss for all of us. Thank heavens some of her performances have been recorded and saved.

[@gerardleclerc386]

I was most fortunate to have had the chance to study for five years with Jacqueline in Knightsbridge and having discovered this recording has brought me back to it all. I am still at a loss to express the words to explain her Person, Talent and Genius that I knew over those years. Her vision and message, so personal, so heartbreakingly intense, given with such intimate urgency and utter Truth is unbearable as it is fragile and rare. Many Artists recordings are just that- a 'static' moment recorded in time however Jacqueline's recordings offer a new and living message to the auditor upon every lecture. Jacqueline's voice, like Alice, comes to us from 'the other side of the looking-glass', that place where everything is possible, where words end, where music begins and Genius Vision points to the future and into....eternity.....

[@angelicaluce3230]

I LOVE THAT - "where words end - where music begins" - it IS eternity - thank you gerard.

[@hollygolightly8048]

What a lovely tribute to such a musical genius you were fortunate enough to study under.

[@BetterMe981]

gerard... ahh, well you were certainly touched by an angel. So glad you got to experience her!

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Jackie would have lived WAY LONGER if she hadn't married Creep-a-Zoid of the Century Daniel Barenboim (see above note)...

[@gerardleclerc386]

@Fortescue Thank you for your compliments. At this Artistic level of 'otherworldliness' I am bound to say that words, however carefully crafted, are a poor tool to use to describe such blindingly unrepeatable and astonishing Genius. In this internet 'glitz-glam' age where balancing a glass of water on one's head gets 100,000 'likes' we must remain true to what is really and truly magnificent at the very top of what creation can give.! kind best to you,

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Chuck everything in the bin - the gossip, the weird movie, the book by her bitter, jealous sister - and just watch this. THIS is what du Pré was all about. The rest of it doesn't matter. She was one of the greatest performers of all time. That's what matters.

[@mcooperclan]

So by 37:45 you are like broken string? What broken string? I don't remember that

[@alicat7281]

Of cello players, certainly.

[@margaretlavender4418]

OrchestrationOnline. It matters to her! Or it would have, if she’d known. She adored him and would have been heartbroken. Her sister....... awful.

[@miana2569]

it is a crime putting so much adds while someone listens to such a piece!!!

[@MellissaBoomeroftheNight]

I was just thinking the same thing. I was enjoying the first movement and BAM! Ad.

[@jetpackvon4997]

If you are watching in web browser, it helps if you use an Adblock extension. Works flawlessly

[@godzooke]

Rostropovich said to her "you can go further than all of us, further than me". I see his point when I watch this. Technique is unnoticeable. Its just music with no barriers.

[@raminagrobis6112]

From the Russian grand master himself? Wow. That speaks volumes!!

[@davidsmith1230]

@@raminagrobis6112 Jacqueline studied with Rostroprovitch

[@dprout3392]

We are in 2023, I remember clearly this concert in 1968. The emotion listening to this magical piece of music played by a magician cello player bring tears as it did the first time I heard this work. I like to think that the sound waves continue travelling through space for ever. Jaqueline du Pré and Barenboim formed a beautiful and powerful duet.

[@mcbill7352]

One of the best soloist entrances to a concerto for any instrument

[@sunnythegreat9312]

Can we all agree that ads on a music video is a bad thing that should be banned and inform Google about it.

[@albanvic]

Couldn't agree more. Easily sorted I can't send it here but ask your computer man for a 'block' site. it will take him a few seconds to fix very minimal cost (if any)

[@chia_s_ee_d]

I agree too

[@rudolphmcneill515]

Uuggh!! I certainly agree. When the first ad interrupted this performance, I almost lost my ish.

[@markexley7566]

It's bad enough between movements (or songs), but in the middle of them is unpardonable sacrilege !

[@dianalobo6930]

@@albanvic sadly, KZbin will not play at all with Ad Block🤑😪😳

[@nikdenbak3961]

An absolute legend in my eyes, truly one of the best cellists ever. The fact that there are adverts right in the middle of this performance is illustrative to me of how the attitude towards real art has changed. This is a true artist sharing their soul in this video and it is interrupted by a vomit inducing light show peddling cheap goods/services. Horrid.

[@sarahloffler]

It is unfortunate but it does not diminish what is sublime. Steel yourself against letting such things ruin it for you.

[@catherinethorstenberg8957]

Like they say money talks bullshit walks. Advertising brings in the $$$

[@sebucwerd]

I know what you mean, but also chill out -- those adds pay to have this stuff on youtube after all

[@aumjohnfisher8181]

@@sebucwerd question then is, "does it pay for them!" I personally resolve not to give such intrusive businesses my custom.

[@JoePalau]

I am of the same generation as Danny and Jacqueline. I bought their recordings and reveled in the performances. This time around I'm impressed by her physical strength, her bow strength is immense. All her other qualities are very much present - eloquent phrasing, lyricism, musical intelligence. But what a bow. What power. Her Elgar, much that same. Just overwhelming power with all the tonal depth and nuance to be hoped for.

[@jacquelinejeenmetelica2506]

DIVINE FEMININE MASTER

[@gloriacasali470]

Overwhelmingly power. Sublime performance. RIP Jackie ❤

[@JoePalau]

To think that DuPre was but 23 in ‘68 is hard to imagine. Her technique supported her impassioned interpretations and playing. Her tone and rock solid sound production continue to impress me. Her intensity is amazing. Her glances at Danny as he accompanies her are laser intense. It’s her lead - he follows and directs the orchestra to follow her. They hear her phrasing and dynamics, of course. Still, the tightness of the orchestra’s ensemble playing is to be noted and appreciated. Their performance is still very much alive. Thank You for the posting.

[@annemerlin2465]

Joe Palau ´

[@alaalfa8839]

Memory is linked to emotions.....If you feel no emotion (you are bored), you cant remember anything. So if they have to remember the score they have to have wemotions and passion. Now we know why they were so good, they are emotional and passionate.

[@judithmaca1570]

I was lucky enough to be there, at that brilliant fundraising concert! I well remember when her strings broke during the performance.

[@tomzeman5964]

Dvorak the composer & Du Pre the musician two masters of their craft a marriage made in heaven.

[@miryambarnabas2424]

Great comment! Thank you! Have subscribed to your Channel! 👍

[@musicalmind7501]

Jacqueline du Pre undoubtedly the best cellist of the century, her sound is so deep, passionate, energetic, romantic, mystical. Her unique interpretations are the mirror reflection of her soul and rich inner world, rich character. She doesn’t play pretentiously, lamely or one-dimensional, her music is everything. Her passion is infectious, you just want to take a cello and start practicing. The goddess of music, beautiful, pure and passionate soul. It is a great gift that we had a chance to listen to her records.

[@tracieprice3635]

Love her, but... Rostropovich?

[@edwardelgar7408]

In a century of Piatigorsky, Rostropovich, Casals, Feuermann, Fournier, calling du Pre "the best" is a bit much.

[@jhb134]

@@edwardelgar7408 - Thanks for the GREAT examples of the best ... and Feuermann's initial recording might still BE the best, after almost a century's time. I think Rostropovich made (at least) 5 of them, and any/all were available on different, LP (or maybe CD) labels, in the past.

[@alfredwiener9136]

Jacquelines Wiedergabe des Dvorak-Konzerts erscheint mir immer noch als ein einziges Wunder.

[@charlottearena]

I have never seen her perform at length, she truly was special, every emotion translates through her heart onto the strings.

[@dx839]

This was recorded in 1968 when she was 23 years old, 3 years before she developed multiple sclerosis from which she died in 1987. It was a short life but brought unspeakable joy to many.

[@mrkimberley92]

So sorry to hear of what tragedy befell her health,Fantastic people often become such ill health in extremes but at such a young age ,makes this so sad to behold GOD BLESSED HER ,GOD BLESS HER MUSIC

[@philipkimber4403]

I remember recording this live with a tape recorder from the TV set. It was a hot evening and I, at the age of 20, was beginning to understand the tragedy of the the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Russians. French friends of mine had escaped from Prague by the last train to the west in August.

[@andrewallen4014]

How amazing to find this recording of Du Pre at her best. The most moving performance I have heard in a very long time.

[@Pikestnt]

I still use the expression “Two minutes please, while I change my string” when I need to be excused. Nobody gets the reference. Anyway, a sublime performance.

[@ysgol3]

😂I get it now and will say so next time I see you and you say it.

[@josettebergeron]

I’ve known this recording for many years - more than thirty. I’ve had so many emotions listening to it, as a musician, a cellist, an artist, as a woman...this is the first time I’ve seen video images! It was deeply moving to watch what I am so familiar with. I didn’t know about the string break until tonight. It was edited out of the recording. I’m amazed and without words to describe how it moves me. Thanks so much for posting this. 💗❤️💗

[@jamesmiller6299]

Her right hand and arm were so marvelous. The control and tone she had was wonderful.

[@Flyghumlan9]

I am proud to tell you that I once shared a taxi with her. In Spoleto, Italy on a festival. She plated the cello, I wrote about this event for a Swedish Magazine.

[@tlahe2]

Thank you. I love it when lives cross & we are able to share it.

[@randifishenfeld]

How very cool!

[@kimsteel366]

She broke a string! That's power! That's rock and roll! Go Jackie! One of the greatest cellists, EVER! 🤩🤩🖤🖤✊✊

[@rebeccachambers100]

We miss you Jacqueline! I’m a pianist.. but in my eyes.. the greatest musician that ever lived. No note was ever played in vain. The most sincere I have ever heard. ❤️X

[@stanbattle7436]

Here’s a really interesting thought. Some of these instruments are hundreds of years old and there would be a lot of cases where the instruments “knew” each other at some time in the past long before today’s musicians ever reunited them. That would make a great subject to research because all the great instruments have a name and that name is a large part of the instrument’s character, not to mention value.

[@Peter28081]

She was born for cello! What gifted! This is the most emotional and touching performance! So sad she could not live longer.

[@christinenewland386]

Yes! So unfair that she was robbed of her musicsl voice. How cruel life can be. Jackie was like a powerful comet shooting through the sky, that takes your breath away and then dies. She inspired and touched people's souls. She took this world by storm. Oh dear Jackie, how I would love to relive those years and give you one more hug and write one more letter to you. ❤

[@georgehemingway3476]

the cello becomes a flawless jewel in her hands and both shine so brilliantly! Thank s

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

It wasn't until I was in my thirties and heard her for the first time that I truly understood how a great musician is sometimes said to make an instrument sing.

[@นพคุณต่อวงศ์]

She poured her whole blood and soul for this performance.

[@albanvic]

Utter genius - nothing more to say.....there will never be anything like her again.

[@nicolaberti7698]

Agreed

[@jbut1208]

Ms Du Pre died of MS many years ago! This was a great loss to the musical world! The piece is the greatest Cello concerto in all music! The playing is great! Some seem incapable of seeing beauty! What a shame!

[@johntrayner6036]

Makes me feel very old. I went to this concert September 2 1968

[@malena7783]

Ohhh how it was to be there?

[@kathleenmorrison3296]

Thank you for giving us the date...I was wondering!

[@johntrayner6036]

Malena From memory it was put on at very short notice. It was in the Proms season and it was held in the afternoon so they would have to reset it for the evening prom. Barenboim certainly had more her then

[@Martine1love]

That's wonderful! It must be such a beautiful memory for you.

[@juanlovato5]

Such a beautiful experience you lived listening Jacqueline.

[@matthewcoombs1605]

Thank you so much for this post. I was five months old when this recording was made, and here I am some 50 years later crying like a 5 month old baby. The irony...

[@forrobertrichard]

I am thankful that the recording equipment (audio and visual) and technicians of the day did a fabulous job at capturing these beautiful moments.

[@pamelacorbett8774]

She plays as one possessed, her whole body engaged, she was the music. Too soon taken from us after a cruel illness, she was unique.

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

My Aunt was taken from the same disease when she was just 24. I remember her when my gran took me to her house as a young child. I always said I wanted her to look over my life and guide me. If I go to heaven what ever that may be then she is the first person I want to meet me.

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

Goodness, from the second Mrs. du Pre starts playing, the tone of her cello is so distinct from the rest of the orchestra. There is a restrained aggressiveness to it, but even in calmer portions, she plays with a crisp clarity, and almost authority. Her tone is like a battle commander whose voice rises above the sounds of battle, urging his men onward. What a talent. I am so glad she was able to perform in an era with recording.

[@Elemental_Echoes]

makes me wonder what others greats musicians we missed the opportunity to listen

[@FranklinAltunaCellistLawyer]

You are more than right Mr SkinnySnorlax She is a Superior Human Being among those members of the Orchestra who were by the way, alta gamma musicians but sorry they were good enough to be producing the most demanding beautiful cello concert ever written we audience are not allow the play such kind of comment; Orchestra, Conducter and Soloist were part of one of the most beautiful concert I have ever seen and heard in my life......Frans Helmerson the great Cello Performer and Teacher once said to us in a Masterclass...":::When you are playing the Dvorak Cello you have to show your work in detail, if you were demanding your demandingness will appear in front of the audience, if not you will pay the consecquences..."

[@김만주-m1g]

'battle commander' excellent metaphor!

[@justusniemeyer3333]

this is imho the most passionate recording of this concerto ever - i don't know if the marvelous, ingenious, etc Jacqueline expressed her problems with MS - but sorrow, rage, anger are so physical - and desperate and forlorn hope. This Recording belongs to the Heritage of Humankind!

[@petroslinardos]

The above performance was given in 1968, and three years before she reportedly had symptoms that interfered with her playing-loss of sensitivity, also in her fingers, 1971. She was diagnosed with MS in 1973.

[@Sumeroid]

Does anybody know the story behind the composition of this concerto? Dvořák was not particularly fond of the concerto form at all, and he was not fond of the cello as an instument in particular. But it was the news of the declining health of the love of his life, Josefina Kounicová, his sister-in-law, what prompted him to choose the instrument that "up high squeals, while down low it growls" and put so much intimate emotion in it with literal quotations of the favourite song of his love "So that my spirit alone" in the second and third movements. He composed the work in New York. Josefine died shortly after his return to Czechia, and Dvořák decided to extend to final movement with 60 additional bars consisting of her favourite melody played up high by the violin (her soul) seconded by the cello (Dvořák's soul). A unique piece of the composer's personal romantism. It is very fitting that Ms Du Pré broke the string in this extremely emotionally charged piece, especially in view of the context - a tribute to the nation that whose backbone was broken again, this time by the Russians (30 years earlier by the Germans with the staffage of the British among others...).

[@randifishenfeld]

Interesting. I'd love to read more about this.

[@SaaharaGlaude]

Jacqueline! A once in a lifetime artist. So very young. So very brilliant. Such an incredible contribution in such a short time. Her personal life is heartbreaking. What an astonishingly beautiful talent. DuPré lives forever!

[@godzooke]

I mean, if aliens ever landed and asked the question "What is music?": Listen to Jacqueline du Pre. She is an absolute artist. Technique isn't even a consideration - note her unbelievably daring fingerings - and her singing tone. Its like a great mezzo soprano singing through the cello.

[@katearnold6296]

Such very beautiful playing. What a wonderful concert.

[@lucydeantiguatarot8977]

She is considered a top cellist who died at the age of 42. British I can only imagine the years of study that took her to this level of superb musicianship. Really awesome and a great life achievement in my opinion.

[@MrPianoevil]

Top cellist is Gaspar Cassado, this is just a miserable shadow of something,,,,,

[@carmenridiche7984]

Gaspar Casado was a great cellist .

[@ademhachicha7068]

Her cadenza at 23:55 is just something else. She does play it so perfectly and its so clean. I've never listened to any other cellist play it that good. She is really gifted.

[@andrewcotton2859]

The principal clarinet here was the late, great, Bernard Walton, a truly glorious player. An earlier comment notes Barry Tuckwell as principal horn. The LSO at this time had many stars, as can be heard here. And Clarinettists just love playing the Dvorak!

[@Savurov-nz9zj]

I remember well how quickly she rose to her deserved worldwide fame. Her reputation was second to none - and just imagine... it was accomplished in a world without computers, cellphones, Twitter and the like. One of the great gifts bestowed upon the world of music. Like all... I am so glad her recordings live on.

[@alaalfa8839]

Today she would be lost in informational world (half of it is junk)......Everyone is famous today...Real housewives...Maybe therefore she was recognised quickly....She didnt "surf" in social media world with other "popular" people.

[@inakiojinagaazkorra9470]

Gives me goosebumps hearing Jacqueline du Pré play this beautiful music with so much feeling. BRAVO... BRAVO. Thank-you for this legacy.

[@waynehwarrenjr9730]

I love this lady so much and have for a long time. Her tragic loss was unfair for all of us. She was the greatest cellist performing the greatest cello concerto. After hearing this concerto, Brahms quipped that if he had known that such a great cello concerto could be written, he would have composed one himself.

[@pauswing]

I have spent the whole video crying. The energy and passion that this woman gave off is unmatched or comparable in the world of cellists. Even Rostropovich didn't go that far. The feeling I have had is to have witnessed something that goes beyond life.

[@marthegaulin674]

m.Pau Swing ,you are right...we have witnessed a sideral beauty , from eternity and beyound life.....

[@liketanyanot]

Now I understand what all the hype was about. She is transcendent, mesmerizing. She transcends what the cello is and what it can do. Amazing. Electrifying. She’s a wizard. I’ve never seen her perform before. My God. Transformative

[@JsRf13]

I cry at the very first note she plays here; her playing was so aggressive, so powerful, like she was attacking you with sound. what a force of nature.

[@rickamberson2929]

I feel just as you do; elgar's greatest most heartfelt piece played is if she knew it might be her last, How can David Herwitz be so blind to the intensity and staggering beauty of this work?

[@olivernunn3675]

@@rickamberson2929 This is the Dvorak cello concerto, not Elgar's!

[@maxking9593]

She consumes the instrument, and becomes the instrument. A transcendental fusion.

[@carmencollor1224]

perfect description!!!

[@anandsamuel1978]

Jacqueline you bring tears to my eyes! Thats how Divine and Heavenly your playing is on this glorious instrument Cello!

[@elisabethbenn1572]

Thank you KZbin. What a treasure we can enjoy. Jacqueline was a genius, and so gracious.

[@fredsharp7419]

What a wonderful find! Du Pre's performance of the Elgar concerto knows no equal - in fact, not even the great Rostropovitch comes close! - and this performance of the Dvorak concerto is, for me, second only the immortal Casals recording. What a luck generation we are to have a) miraculous performers, b) miraculous performances - all at the touch of a button and c) kind, selfless individuals who find and download such gems for us. Humble thanks to all.

[@evelingoldbeck3465]

She will not be forgotten. This special sound of Ms du Pre playing the cello is on my mind since I listened to her as a girl on air - now 70 years old I still miss to have had the chance to attend a concert personally.

[@TheLiathach]

I saw the same concert 1968 in the Usher Hall Edinburgh, she broke a string at the start.💔

[@sheilabloom6735]

Amazing. My favorite cello concerto and she brilliantly honors him. Too young; too young.

[@moniquethomas3610]

She was a true heroine to me. A superb woman of musical genius- then she was so cruelly taken away from us so young. A beautiful upload. Many thanks for presenting this.

[@michaelpaulsmith4619]

It may be redundant to say this but what a talent Jackie had. And with Barenboim and the LSO on board, we are sure of a great performance. Instead, we got the greatest, one that will possibly never be matched. Thank you for posting.

[@markmiller9850]

I've seen this several times and it always brings both goose bumps and tears every time. She literally plays from her soul.

[@giovannineri8932]

Superlative! She would be now 74 and still playing.

[@gregfaris6959]

The apogee and decline of her career, due to illness, are heart-rending. I lived for some years in the flat she used to occupy, rue du Mont Cenis, in Montmartre. I am thankful I didn’t know that until months before I moved on - the burden would have been haunting. The conductor (husband) too reflects an era where conductors were not too absorbed with vanity and self-worship to actually give the musicians meaningful tempo indications!

[@weavethehawk]

Well, this is what GOD does, isn't it?

[@carlosmarciocello]

Listen to her playing never gets old or enought. She playing this is one of the most moving things to a cellist.

[@avicennitegh1377]

She is astonishing. I don't know enough about music and musicians but her touch is so distinctively warm, fluent and captivating.

[@dorotheemorath928]

She was an Angel, too good for this world.

[@Yetipfote]

As a child I was ill. I put this CD in my player and listened to it on loop. I fell asleep and when I woke up I was healthy again. True story. Listening to this since over 20 years now and still love it deeply and it is music on another league for me.

[@randifishenfeld]

How wonderful!

[@billymoretz2292]

In London we can never forget R. Browning's immortal lines: "Better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at ALL!" Although I have played the violin most of my life, about a year ago when I acquired my first cello, I discovered this 1968 recording, which warmed my heart. A woman, whose name I do not recall, declared that Mrs. Duprès' talent can only be God-given, a claim that I shall never deny. You see her love for her music, her instrument and humanity in her eyes fixed on her fluid bow and every strand of gracious hair that exudes from her halo. Later I saw a documentary on her untimely passing. This Sunday morning, in the midst of an international pandemic, I prepare to listen to this breathtaking recording again! Shalom. Ironically, in the mid-80s I started volunteering to treat PT patients and my first candidate was a middle-aged lady with the same diagnosis as our treasured cellist. I have designed music therapy and wheel-chair soccer to treat paralyzed children in Germany. As I am only 71 years old, I am considering completing a degree program in music therapy in Belgium, a country where the Nazis destroyed the Jewish school and its students in Brussels.

[@itsjim2875]

Absolutely magnificent! We lost her way too soon. I'm so thankful we have recordings like this to remember her by.

[@natalievandenblink7802]

When you hear the way she plays she is the most beautiful female in the world. this is just magic !!! Bravo Ms du Pre !!

[@classicalaid1]

A still young Ms. Du Pre's farewell concert in Toronto was unforgettable. I still recall the flaming red gown she wore and the long hair, which was her trademark, not to mention the spellbinding performance she gave that evening.

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

Her hair was hardly her trademark, what's wrong with you! lol

[@stonefireice6058]

@@RichardWagner-hi4znhe/she meant her appearance,lol! Jackie always wore long tresses.

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

@@stonefireice6058 So do 99% of all female performers. lol

[@robertdeland3390]

Luck man. Sounds like a beautiful but bitter sweet night.

[@classicalaid1]

@@RichardWagner-hi4zn That's not true. She had lovely, long brown hair which used to take flight as she played with utter abandon. Perhaps you have to see her live to get the unique image she projected wherever she went in the world. Your comment is too starched.

[@DmitriA-p5x]

Какие были времена ! Баренбойм эмоционально дирижировал, в оркестре одни мужчины и фантастическая Жаклин без гримас, кривляния, вычурного раскачивания - воплощение музыкальности, а не позёрства ! Браво !

[@apollosaturnv17iss75]

My all-time favorite cello concerto of time eternal! She is a miracle!

[@thomasvandyke3159]

Happy birthday to one of the greatest cellists of all time Jacqueline du Pré born January 26 1945... gifted beyond words...

[@resounds]

What a beautiful passionate performance. Seeing her performing live, especially in black and white gives even more special intense feelings. She left too early. 🍀💚

[@rrampling8348]

In my mind there is no greater cellist. I was in love with her for as long as I could remember. I don't think anyone loved her music and herself as much as I did.

[@michaelrg3836]

Dvorak was born to write this. This alone would have assured his place in music history! Brava Jacqueline.

[@maryyueil]

Gone but not forgotten, what a beautiful performance.

[@nelsongrimaldi3926]

She is just out of this world, magical, best of the best

[@christinejones1859]

Best cellist in the world. So cruel

[@isaacsegal2844]

I never tire of hearing this piece. Of course, I never tire of hearing just about anything written by Dvorak.

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

One of the greats. Dvorak wrote a piece at age 14, got a prize and he was on his way. A good successor to Beethoven.

[@YuTsaiOnCello]

One of the greatest cellist in the history. Jacqueline always be loved..

[@lorenaramirez6498]

one of them but the greatest of all time is Yoyoma.

[@JohnOBurke]

@@lorenaramirez6498 Oh? I'll bet Ma, if he had the chance, would go hear du Pre over Ma or any other cellist living or dead.

[@Эжи-у6к]

@@lorenaramirez6498 You are funny!

[@Dylonely_9274]

Indeed

[@huenlee3907]

Davidoff, the Stard cello you see now in the video, was once loanded to young yoyoma, from du pre. Ma feel privileged, and believed 'jakie was always the most execiting celloist'

[@georgehemingway3476]

This lady is an inspiration to all would be Cello Players. A sad loss !

[@uqox]

What a wonderful moment. "Two minutes please while I change my string." We take the mechanics of performing live for granted and the amazing management of nerves it must take to play beautiful music and still manage the unexpected. This "re-discovered recording" is a wonderful treat! Thank you for uploading it. I greatly appreciate it.

[@anthony-yj2oe]

I have been listening to a recording of this for 30 years and today KZbin suddenly decided to show me what it was like..... I am speechless..... Probably the recording I have already edited the broken string incident.. If not, probably the one I have was a recording in the studio? It was the same piece with Daniel and London sym orchestra...No matter what, it is amazing

[@caketinfairy]

That was one of the most moving performances I've ever witnessed. I'm so glad it was filmed. To imagine being there... a dream.

[@alicat7281]

Caitlin Sullivan For sure!

[@duncansmith2260]

That last closing note on the cello. Rips your heart out. Almost unbearable. RIP. You transcend from all the Gods.xxxx

[@chia_s_ee_d]

She was taken too soon…. But her playing forever remains ❤

[@bombiecustodio]

Priceless performance. What else can one ask for... Antonin Dvorak, Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim, LSO, Royal Albert Hall and the enchanting sound of the oboe which is that of Anthony Camden. A treasure indeed.

[@peterlever7286]

I think you mean ANTHONY Camden; Archie was a Bassoonist

[@bombiecustodio]

@@peterlever7286 oh yes, Anthony indeed. Kerry was my bassoon teacher and Archie was their father.

[@michellepark1689]

Jacqueline is absolutely different from other cellists. Her bowing is sensitive enough to express melody heavenly.