The Great Cello Concertos: Dvořák, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Haydn... (Remastered) Jacqueline du Pré

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33:
• 1Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33: I. Allegro non troppo05:46
• 2Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33: II. Allegretto con moto05:33
• 3Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33: III. Allegro non troppo08:54
• Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904): Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191:
• 4Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191: I. Allegro15:27
• 5Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191: II. Adagio ma non troppo13:20
• 6Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191: III. Finale. Allegro moderato13:41
• Sir Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934): Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85:
• 7Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato07:58
• 8Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: II. Lento - Allegro molto04:31
• 9Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: III. Adagio05:16
• 10Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro ma non troppo12:21
• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1:
• 11Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: I. Moderato09:34
• 12Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: II. Adagio09:44
• 13Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: III. Allegro molto06:53
• Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934): Cello Concerto:
• 14Delius: Cello Concerto: I. Lento -01:01
• 15Delius: Cello Concerto: II. Con moto tranquillo -06:18
• 16Delius: Cello Concerto: III. Lento -07:36
• 17Delius: Cello Concerto: IV. Con moto tranquillo -01:59
• 18Delius: Cello Concerto: V. Allegramente07:44
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129:
• 19Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: I. Nicht zu schnell12:24
• 20Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II. Langsam - Etwas lebhafter - Schneller04:39
• 21Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: III. Sehr lebhaft08:34
• Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805): Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major, G. 482:
• 22Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major, G. 482: I. Allegro moderato (Arr. Grützmacher)09:29
• 23Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major, G. 482: II. Adagio non troppo (Arr. Grützmacher)06:56
• 24Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major, G. 482: III. Rondo. Allegro (Arr. Grützmacher)06:23
• Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2:
• 25Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: I. Allegro moderato - Cadenza16:43
• 26Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: II. Adagio07:10
• 27Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: III. Rondo. Allegro - Cadenza06:03
• Édouard Lalo (1823 - 1892): Cello Concerto in D Minor:
• 28Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor: I. Prélude. Lento - Allegro maestoso (Live)12:42
• 29Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor: II. Intermezzo. Andantino con moto (Live)06:09
• 30Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor: III. Introduction. Andante - Allegro vivace (Live)07:39
• Georg Mathias Monn (1717 - 1750): Cello Concerto in G Minor:
• 31Monn: Cello Concerto in G Minor: I. Allegro07:39
• 32Monn: Cello Concerto in G Minor: II. Adagio08:59
• 33Monn: Cello Concerto in G Minor: III. Allegro non tanto06:20
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Don Quixote, Op. 35:
• 34Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Introduction. Don Quixote Sinks into Madness06:14
• 35Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Theme. The Knight of the Mournful Countenance - Sancho Panza02:15
• 36Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation I. The Adventure with the Windmills03:02
• 37Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation II. The Battle with the Sheep01:43
• 38Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation III. Discourse Between Knight and Squire08:19
• 39Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation IV. The Adventure with the Pilgrims01:51
• 40Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation V. The Knight’s Vigil04:57
• 41Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation VI. The Meeting with Dulcinea01:21
• 42Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation VII. The Ride Through the Air01:07
• 43Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation VIII. The Voyage in the Enchanted Boat01:57
• 44Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation IX. The Combat with the Two Magicians01:11
• 45Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Variation X. The Defeat of Don Quixote04:21
• 46Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Finale. Don Quixote’s Death06:06
• Total Runtime05:15:49

Info for The Great Cello Concertos: Dvořák, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Haydn... (Remastered)

The tragedy of du Pré’s brief career is still fresh in the public memory and can be summarised here. She was born in Oxford on 26 January 1945 into a middle-class family in which music was important: her mother was a fine pianist and a gifted teacher. The French-sounding name came from her father’s Channel Islands ancestry. Just before her fifth birthday, when she was already showing musical promise, she heard the sound of a cello on the radio and the course of her life was set. She studied at Herbert Walenn’s London Violoncello School and at ten became a pupil of William Pleeth, who had himself studied with Julius Klengel. Pleeth played with a good deal of uninhibited body movement and passed this trait on to du Pré, whose total physical involvement in her playing was to endear her to audiences. She made a successful London recital début in 1961, studied with Casals in Switzerland, Tortelier in Paris and Rostropovich in Moscow with varying degrees of success – one wonders what these players could have taught such a natural musician – and gradually consolidated her reputation at home. She began recording for EMI in 1962 and by 1965, when her famous disc of the Elgar Concerto was made, she was a star. That year she made her American début and in 1967 she married the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.

In July 1971, when she shoud have been at her peak, she began suffering seriously from a mysterious ailment which had already intermittently affected her playing. Eventually multiple sclerosis was diagnosed and, after a cruel series of remissions and relapses typical of that illness, in 1973 she retired. Gradually her health deteriorated, and she died in London on 19 October 1987.

Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Valda Aveling, harpsichord
London Symphony Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli, conductor
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

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