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| Jacqueline du Pre - Favourite Cello Concertos ~ Boccherini, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Monn, Saint-Saens, Schumann | 
 enlarge | Artists: Edward Elgar, Luigi Boccherini, Antonin Dvorak, Camille Saint-saens, Joseph Haydn, Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Schuman, Daniel Barenboim, Sir John Barbirolli, Jacqueline Du Pre, Valda Aveling, Georg Mathias Monn, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $32.98
Buy New: $5.97
You Save: $27.01 (82%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2011
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 1
MPN: 63283
UPC: 077776328324
EAN: 0077776328324
ASIN: B000002S1F
Release Date: May 7, 1990
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 passionate and individual November 18, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was moved to add comment after reading several of Octavius' strongly worded, biased and repetitive reviews here at Amazon. His suggestion that it was schizophrenia that led to Du Pre's early withdrawal from the concert platform and untimely death is just plain wrong if not libellous!! The poor woman developed multiple sclerosis and was one of the rare ones in whom it proved to be fatal. Yes she did study with Rostropovich in Russia in 1966 but became extremely homesick. It should be added that she also attended masterclasses with Casals but regarded William Pleeth as her "cello daddy". Her words, not mine.
I THOUGHT I had heard these concertos,,, April 3, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
UNTIL I was fortunate enough to have heard them performed by Jacqueline du Pre!!!
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!! Her superb playing, along with truly masterful
interpretative skills, just "comes pouring out of the speakers!"
Also, the orchestras were obviously truly inspired by these opportunities to perform and record with one of the greatest musicians of all time.
The sound quality is excellent, as is the separation and clarity of both the soloist's and orchestral performances. The overall dynanism is also top notch - I found I had to lower the volume substantially from my normal
system loudness levels.
I've enjoyed this set so much I'll probably wind up buying everything from Amazon that EMI has produced with Jacqueline du Pre's name on it!
Greatest Performer April 25, 2000
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
Du Pre has such a romantic style, she dishes out the most lovely tone, dynamics, and phrasing I have ever heard. (Especially in her Elgar and Dvorak concertos.)
Great collection July 10, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite concerto collections for cello. The passion the duPre brings to the music is breathtaking. I would recommend this collection for anyone. You will not be disappointed!
 Great performance. but VERY bad recording quality February 13, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
No complaint about the performance.
But the recoding or A->D conversion somewhere went terribly wrong. The dynamic range seems set very low therefore the loud part of the music gets 'clipping'. For example, Disk 3, Track 1, between 0:40 to 1:10, you can clearly hear the distortion noise at the high level of the music (not your playback volume).
What a pity, the recoding engineers simply not up to the job and ruined such a fine performance!
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