I am old enough to remember hearing this at the time. I was 16y and felt I had been hit hard in the chest. I am now 79 and it still has the same effect on me. Magic.
Celia Wight it instantly brings me to tears like a feeling that pushes up from my chest 😭 this piece needs no words to tell it’s vivid and heartbreaking story
This is the piece that made me want to play the cello. I received my cello 2 days ago on June 1st. I am 14 and I will be using all of my free time to practice and hopefully become a professional.
You go Chris! In my 70th year, never having laid a finger on a bowed string instrument, I bought a cello. Sadly, I've had too many years of illness to keep up with it.
Wow, Christopher, that´s great! Best vibes and wishes from Mexico. It will take your brain awhile till it gets used to music itself and instrument playing but with time and proper guiding you´ll become a pro no doubts.
Christopher Davis i wanted to learn due to this piece as well, I received mine a year ago on July 24th and I’m 14 too! :) let’s strive to be professionals together
Christopher I hope the playing and learning is going well. I wish you all the best ! I love locally to Sir Edwards home and have visited his preserved house. And like myself he was a big Wolves F.C. fan he used to cycle all the way from Malvern to Wolverhampton to see them play, however the fact he was trying to woo a young lady who was also a local fan may have made him a little more keen!
Hope you go far, my dude. I play the cello and I love it. I'm not as ambitious as you, but playing it gives me more joy than most things I do, and I hope you feel that way too. Best of luck. Oh, and I hope you're enjoying high school (I'm just guessing cause of your age. I'm a sophomore by the way)
I cannot listen to this without crying. There are uplifting counters but I hear unspeakable, aching pain, grief and loss. It hurts. It's incredibly moving. Du Pre is unsurpassable.
I don't know much about classical music, but I read in a comment while listening to Yo-Yo Ma's version that Elgar wrote this after world war one which was a deeply moving, horrifying experience for him. I guess this piece really reflects that.
This was elgar's last piece. He was writing about the end of life.. elgar was a very tortured soul who was out of place during his time. He married above his status and tried to present himself as a proper Englishman, but inside was a lot of pain.
Yes. The most unbearable heartbreak ever put down in a staff. And Jackie it’s most beautiful messenger. Wish we could let her know how much she is loved ❤️
This is what I had playing while I was in labor. I had a whole playlist of classical music, but it turned out to be a fairly short labor (2.5 hours total), and this is what I remember giving birth to.
Edward Elgar's cello concerto, Op 85, always makes me weep. Now I understand from reading the write-up about the concerto's debut, and the time period in which it was written. Jacqueline du Pre has always been my favorite cellist. I had just arrived at the parking lot of a grocery store on a black, rainy night. Turning off the car engine, rain pouring down the windows, I was in a kind of womb in the car and Jacqueline du Pre played this piece. I sat motionless for 1/2 an hour transfixed, didn't move a muscle, only marveled and was in ecstasy at what I was hearing.
The story I heard was that when Jacueline was young, she was at her normal weekend cello lesson, and the lesson came to an end. She asked the teacher what to practice... He looked around the room and found a manuscript of the Elgar Concerto, which at that time was very unpopular, seen by most players as just the music of an old man refecting on the past. Jacqueline took the manuscript home. Next week.... "How'd it go?!" Jacqueline apologised that she had only memorised the first movement. Her teacher, a bit taken aback, said "ok let's just hear that then", so JdP played the first movement. After that her teacher said "I can't teach you any more". He lined her up with a much more senior person in London and basically passed her up into the big time. This recording gives a flavour of those times and her amazing musicality. But please don't forget that the notes on the page come from a genius at another level, Mr. Elgar, from the North of England who despised the Royalty and the 'glory' of Southern England, yet wrote the Pomp and Circumstance marches for royal occasions. Barenboim ++, du Pre +++, Elgar ++++ :-D
Most of the stuff after "Mr Elgar" is bollocks. Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet OM wasn't from the north of England; he was from the Midlands. He didn't despise royalty; he was a proud Englishman and royalist who accepted a baronetcy and the Order of Merit from his monarch. And what's this bullshit about the glory of the south of England?
There is no better version. Nobody has played it this way. To an Englishmen this is exactly what Elgar was thinking. Do disrespect to Jo Jo, but….. Once you’ve seen and heard this, you have to have sympathy for other Cellists to play it. But good luck to each and everyone of them. They probably realise before they play they cannot compete with her.
I love Edward's quote when he was on his deathbed, " If you're ever walking on the Malvern Hills and you hear this, don't be frightened, it's only me."
She makes the 'cello cry. It's an extension of her; you can feel Elgar's pain through every tortured note. Hell...I knew she was good at the time but not 'this' good! Rest in peace Jackie!
I think this is the best classical performance ever. She is absolutely brilliant, making it look easy, with perfect tuning, innate musicianship and incredible strength, and she is perfectly supported by the sensitive orchestra, conducted by Barenboim, and she is in love with him - they are passionately in love, and there's plenty of big hair.
It’s like she was a psychic medium, using her cello and artistry to connect directly with Elgar. Never before or since has anyone managed to capture the very essence of Elgar like Du Pre. He was present in the room with her from the opening bar to the closing pause. Every note she played was a celebration of him and every second of the performance was a celebration of her mastery, skill and artistry. Breathtaking.
Cathy Marsden choreographed a work for the Royal Ballet called ‘The Cellist’. It tells the story of Jacqueline in dance, with a dancer portraying the cello. The music combines many of the works she made her own - including this. It is wonderful - Jacqueline really dancing with her instrument as, indeed, she appeared to do whilst performing.
I lived in London at that time, now I'm an old lady in Italy, but will never forget Jackie & the Elgar Concerto, among others, nor how her sister has treated her memory.
When I was a student in Chicago, I skipped out if a class early to walk to Orchestra Hall precisely to see and hear the sublime art of the talented, lovely and famed Jaqueline du Pré. It felt like heaven. Soon after that I heard the news of the MS and couldn't believe it could possibly happen.
I was out driving the day Jacqueline’s death was announced on the local classical radio network. Of course, they played this piece. I found I was crying so much it made me a hazard to traffic. Had to pull over, park the car and listen right through to the end
I get it. I can recall just hearing something for the first time and being moved to sobbing tears and needing to pull to the side of the road. I can only imagine a moment like this. So tragic. Yet somehow beautiful in a weird way.
@@limin1462 - People who say this actually know nothing of their relationship in her declining years. Her illness and early death was a great tragedy for all.
Помню, когда мой сын учился в музыкальной школе, она у всех была на слуху. Жалко рано ушла из жизни. Божественный звук виолончели. Вечная память о ней.
It never fails to bring tears to my eyes, hearing Jacqui play this. The way she caresses the sound out of her cello, it is almost as if, as someone else has noted, she were channelling Elgar. How cruel to be given such talent and then have it taken away by disease.
I feel something in my chest when I hear this - something alive , foundational and eternal, not as me now, but as its always has been and forever will be
I love Elgar's E minor and Du Pre's interpretation. It may help knowing that Edward Elgar composed this melancholy beauty at a time where he was immensely frustrated with the lack of enthusiasm and reception of his works. He was ready to quit composing. His wife pushed for him to keep going. I'm grateful he continued.
Not true! Jacqueline Du Pre not The greatest! The greatest cellits Are really=Gaspar Cassado ( The most beautiful sound! Much Better than Du Pre) Gary Hoffman ( The King) Danil Shafran ( The God ) Arto Noras ( The biggest Cello tone ever! Du Pre a small tiny tone in The Big concert hall!!) Karine Georgian!!! The Bad cellists Are really=Yo-Yo Ma ( The most Boring Ever) Mischa Maisky ( The.most over-rated ever! The only. 6th place in The Tchaikovsky Cello competition!) Natalia Gutman ( Bad vibrato! Bad sound) Stephen Isserlis Truls Mork ( Mörk) Peter Whispelway! Sol Gabetta! Hauser ( really Bad!)
I feel so bad for Elgar. His melodies are as unique as Brahms -- just this ambient sea of pure spirit and emotion. This concerto was everything to me in my childhood. Thank you Elgar!
Wish Brahms wrote a cello concerto (no, not the Double Concerto), since he claimed that when he heard the Dvorak cello concerto for the first time, that he said if he knew the cello was so virtuosic, then he would’ve composed a cello concerto
She played at one of our school concerts in Norwich and I was very shy but found her sitting in a corner backstage with her cello and was drawn to her. We had a little conversation but I was captivated by her persona and later by her playing
this is the best thing on youtube. we are so lucky that this exists. i must have watched this video at least a hundred times and i am yet to find something that completes me as much as it does. thank you for uploading.
Probably not until they were well into it, or maybe not until it was over, but to fail to realize it at some point seems impossible. It is indeed a musically and historically important performance.
I find it so sad that the first performance of this piece flopped, and it was never really appreciated until the sixties, thirty years after the death of Elgar. Great minds are never appreciated in their time.
I made the mistake of driving whilst listening to this. That was not a clever thing to do. Luckily, I was able to enjoy another day, another performance.
Died at 42 of MS and from deeply abusive background, said 'the brick wall in front of me only disappeared when I played the cello and I could speak at last'
My cellist housemate used to play this practising over and over again.she asked me if I minded...I said no, it's one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. And this...the way jaqueline du pre plays it..omg she is at one with her instrument...you can't separate the two and the orchestra is wonderful too x
i was in my early twenties when I first attended one of her concerts and was enchanted by her playing. We lost much when she left us but she gave us so many treasures to see us through the years.
Though the performance is beautiful and masterful, and Ms. du Pre's impassioned interpretation of the concerto remains the hallmark other cellists strive to emulate, it is before a single note has been played where I find my favorite moment of this wonderful video. Jackie finishes tuning her cello while Daniel watches and, while she is distracted and he can look at her unnoticed, he does so with genuine affection -- heartbreaking,in retrospect -- his love writ plain for all to see, guileless, stupid, transcendent love. Then you see in his expression that she has caught him out, that the spy has been espied. Their eyes meet and, confident, together they leap recklessly into the dangerous mists of genius.
Elgar was the pre-eminent British composer of the 20th century. His Cello Concerto was a MONSTER to perform! Du Pre was possibly the first (or only) cellist who could do it right. This is a masterpiece of performance. Enjoy! Don't try to critique it!
+william boyle Not sure why you see a critique in the above. JDP created the archetypal interpretation of this concerto, and this (and how lucky are we that the video still survives?) is her purest, most primal performance of same. It is her romantic/erotic connection to Barenboim, and through him, to the orchestra. They are making love before our eyes, him goading her, his conducting aggressive, challenging but ultimately submissive to her mastery of her craft. Again, we are so bloody lucky this exists.
You made me realize I haven't listened to a vinyl recording in years. I've forgotten about the fullness of sound they produce. I wonder if they still sell those awesome Technics turntables.
I remember when I was 11 and starting to learn cello, I listened to this video and was wowed by Du Pré's sheer talent. Now at 16, I am still wowed by her playing, but now I have the honor of using this recording as a reference and inspiration while I study this piece. There are no words to describe my admiration of du Pré's skill.
Love this, it’s so great to know I’m not the only one; this video also started it all for me. I was 14 when I watched for the first time, and 2 days later my parents bought me a cello and I haven’t stopped since, when I was in my teens I literally couldn’t put the instrument down, let alone stop watching this video! I was so lucky that my teacher for 7 years at the RCM and her were very close friends, so I heard so many wonderful stories about her, she was a wonderful, eclectic, innocent and beautiful soul. I’m 29 now, a professional cellist, and it really is all because of this performance. It’s so unspeakably tragic she’s no longer with us, imagine what she would have gone on to do… and the music that would have been written for her. At least we’re left with these few recordings. All the best to you and your cello life xx
I can’t watch this without crying buckets. Both the music and knowing her own tragic story, it tears my soul apart. RIP Jacqueline, you left the world such a wonderful legacy with your beautiful playing. ❤
it is best to keep it fresh. some people talk about keeping listening; that's not the way. you can only feel the magic a few times and then when you go back it blows you away.
This was my concert for my cello graduation...And It will be always my concert...Best version ever...greeting to all cellists and cello lovers from Cayman Islands...Blessings
What’s remarkable and so enjoyable is her joy and intensity of playing. I give credit to the people who filmed her! Her in the picture when she plays and clarinets or the whole orchestra when needed. It looks like the film makers also knew the piece by heart! Excellent!! It makes it such a joy to watch!
I already saw this performance as one of the most incredible shows of human artistic capability long before I watched Tár. In the restaurant scene, when Olga mentioned that this video inspired her to be a cellist, it touched me deep as any movie scene has never did before. I felt that scene was made for me. I could identify with Olga in a very, very special way, because loving this performance looked like something very intimate and special and suddenly is a bond between me and the movie character. Totally and strongly the magic of cinema. Tár is already one of my favorite movies because of this.
When I wrote my first draft for my novel in 2017, I spent every morning in the library before getting to work listening to this at least once. It is not only one of my favorite cello performances, but one of my favorite performances of any music ever. I almost know it by heart, even the little "errors" and I don't think I will ever stop loving this performance. If I could get it on CD I would in a heartbeat.
It's funny how, nowadays, everybody tries to put some self-aggrandizement into their RUclips comments. Is "while I was writing my first novel" really necessary?
@@CLASSICALFAN100 Oh wow, it's a while since I left this comment. And I wasn't trying to be aggrandizing or whatever, I was just feeling all nostalgic about the time in my life I was listening to this performance constantly. I could have talked about flunking out of college, which was also going on at the time, but I instead focused on the happy stuff. I'd like to ask you why you feel the need to cut people's achievements and little moments of pride down. Should I instead have put, "Writing a shitty novel that I never put out or edited because it was so godawful, but it was the only thing in my life that made it feel worth living?" Because that's not the comment I wanted to write. I wanted some happy nostalgia. Let people enjoy things and feel pride ffs
@@kimamato5196 i love this comment by the way - i listen to it in libraries studying too. I'm studying for my a levels and i really love thinking of others in a similar position to me, working away with this incredible piece on. It's fantastic you wrote a book, even if you never published it, and that wasn't self aggrandising at all. I think you can get a CD of it? My mum has one.
Jacqueline du Pre , Edward Elgar and Daniel Barenboim , what a symbiosis ! Wonderful ! I got to know Edward Elgar through my choirmaster. He gave me the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, op. 85, for my birthday over 30 years ago. I still love Edward Elgar. I loved my choirmaster Christoph until he broke my heart. But there was a wonderful love even beyond death. Jacqueline and Daniel! Every time I hear this concert, I get goose bumps, and the tears run with emotion.
I’ve listened to this recording several times as it its at the top of my list of favorite recorded concertos for any instrument. And although I think Elgar was a great composer, Du Pre elevates this piece to a level that even now I’ve not seen topped for the emotional weight and joy she places in the piece, let alone the technique that even I a non-cellist (trumpet player myself) can see as exceptional. But watching this for the first time, even more so can I say that she is not just an instrumentalist or cellist. The cello is her, and she is the cello. Anyone who has studied music can attest to how hard it is just to work on the technical skills required to perform even halfway close to this; but to possess those technical skills and then bring out all of the emotional depths and heights a piece of music can offer, from the dynamic and colored range of the quiet and warm through the bold and bright, to the absolutely stunning vibrato on display here, the give and take between the orchestra and the soloist. All of that and more is what makes this woman something that I cannot really place into words but the best analogy is that she paints the air with her sound and if you close your eyes you can see that sound in your mind as clearly as any painting.
What sound she got from a cello. magnificent. This is my first hearing of the work. I listened to several soloists and while all were adequate it was not until Ms. du Pre did I hear the passion and true music.
Yes. As excellent as he is. The softening and rounding arrangement doesn’t appeal to me. I think the JDP version is definitive because, just like watching a brilliant Actor, you can find yourself inside the Writer’s mind. JDP seems to make you feel just like Elgar. It may be a trick. But few musicians can perform at that level.
quelle violoncelliste délicieuse ange et démon sur son instrument ,extraordinaire interprétation de ce concerto d'Elgar. nous n'oublieront jamais cette merveilleuse interprète !!!
'Deep calls unto deep' as the psalmist expressed it. Truly we enter into something special created by Edward Elgar, who revealed in this composition a truly beautiful, soul stirring and uplifting experience interpreted with such passion and finesse by the irreplaceable Jacqueline du Pré.
Every time man, every time I hear that introduction it gives me that exact feeling. The whole concerto is a roller coaster of emotions, fear, passion, desperation, love, anger, and I would call that life.
goosebumps and tears for me too. There is an incredible interview on you tube of Dupre, when she was ill, this woman had a great mind and a limitless soul.
En tant que prof de violoncelle, voilà ce que je montre à mes élèves, comme symbole absolu de l'engagement musical et de la sensibilité dans le répertoire écrit.
The last few seconds of this video is so bittersweet ... "He's got my shoe!" She laughs and they walk off, two young musical geniuses in love, in all their glory, never knowing the tragedies that lay ahead.
@@andrewanderson3016 du Pre was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her 20’s and eventually had to stop performing. Barenboim and du Pre married young and he cared for her until her death 14 years later. In the latter years though, he also started a relationship with the woman who’s now his wife. No judgement here, we will never know how hard it was for both of them.
This is what dreams are made of: Jaqueline DuPré was an angel, not quite of this earth. Her playing was beyond music. Her existence was a gift from G-d.
Even if life does go back to normal one day... I'll never hear music played like this live... I'm unsure if I could cope if it were possible. The whole of history seems to float by one as one listens...
a chance conversation (with a customer, about her son's cello lessons) - suddenly tapped into JdP memories - how on earth I forgot about her and Elgar's music is beyond me, but I DO live in a cultural desert. Emotions crash through me like waves on a rock - they both soar and despair, such is the power and skill of this woman's playing. Thank god she's digitally immortalised. Thanks for posting :)
To me, this piece feels like breathing. The pauses between the phrases leave me in anticipation, the swells move so naturally. I can't stop listening to it or thinking about it, I just want to live in this sound forever.
I am old enough to remember hearing this at the time. I was 16y and felt I had been hit hard in the chest. I am now 79 and it still has the same effect on me. Magic.
@Woodland he/she was talking about the original piece, based on the content itself
Celia Wight it instantly brings me to tears like a feeling that pushes up from my chest 😭 this piece needs no words to tell it’s vivid and heartbreaking story
Bless you Celia, I am seven years your junior but know the feeling well
That's just your heart failing love
@Woodland Boring fart syndrome methinks.
Warning: Listening to Jackie play the Elgar Concerto is highly addictive. You will never stop listening to her once you start.
dougbalt treu!! Almost a month since i listen this for the first time xD
Scrub the Elgar Concerto, listening to Jackie full stop.
More serious side effects include actually becoming a cellist
@@Brandon_501 or disliking all the other cellists lol
have been looping this at work this week lol
This is the piece that made me want to play the cello. I received my cello 2 days ago on June 1st. I am 14 and I will be using all of my free time to practice and hopefully become a professional.
You go Chris! In my 70th year, never having laid a finger on a bowed string instrument, I bought a cello. Sadly, I've had too many years of illness to keep up with it.
Wow, Christopher, that´s great! Best vibes and wishes from Mexico. It will take your brain awhile till it gets used to music itself and instrument playing but with time and proper guiding you´ll become a pro no doubts.
Christopher Davis i wanted to learn due to this piece as well, I received mine a year ago on July 24th and I’m 14 too! :) let’s strive to be professionals together
Christopher I hope the playing and learning is going well. I wish you all the best ! I love locally to Sir Edwards home and have visited his preserved house. And like myself he was a big Wolves F.C. fan he used to cycle all the way from Malvern to Wolverhampton to see them play, however the fact he was trying to woo a young lady who was also a local fan may have made him a little more keen!
Hope you go far, my dude. I play the cello and I love it. I'm not as ambitious as you, but playing it gives me more joy than most things I do, and I hope you feel that way too. Best of luck. Oh, and I hope you're enjoying high school (I'm just guessing cause of your age. I'm a sophomore by the way)
January 2024..! There will always come a time when I return to this... Amazing... 💙💙💙💙💙
I cannot listen to this without crying. There are uplifting counters but I hear unspeakable, aching pain, grief and loss. It hurts. It's incredibly moving. Du Pre is unsurpassable.
Simon Wiggins i agree. So much sorrow knowing the tragic ending, only in terms of her health. She left many gifts for our mankind.
I don't know much about classical music, but I read in a comment while listening to Yo-Yo Ma's version that Elgar wrote this after world war one which was a deeply moving, horrifying experience for him. I guess this piece really reflects that.
This was elgar's last piece. He was writing about the end of life.. elgar was a very tortured soul who was out of place during his time. He married above his status and tried to present himself as a proper Englishman, but inside was a lot of pain.
a true gem, gone too soon
Yes. The most unbearable heartbreak ever put down in a staff. And Jackie it’s most beautiful messenger. Wish we could let her know how much she is loved ❤️
I am 65 now a classical violinist and still want to weep when I hear her play no one played the Elgar like her full homage to her ❤
This is what I had playing while I was in labor. I had a whole playlist of classical music, but it turned out to be a fairly short labor (2.5 hours total), and this is what I remember giving birth to.
Your child is highly priveledged.
Edward Elgar's cello concerto, Op 85, always makes me weep. Now I understand from reading the write-up about the concerto's debut, and the time period in which it was written. Jacqueline du Pre has always been my favorite cellist. I had just arrived at the parking lot of a grocery store on a black, rainy night. Turning off the car engine, rain pouring down the windows, I was in a kind of womb in the car and Jacqueline du Pre played this piece. I sat motionless for 1/2 an hour transfixed, didn't move a muscle, only marveled and was in ecstasy at what I was hearing.
The story I heard was that when Jacueline was young, she was at her normal weekend cello lesson, and the lesson came to an end. She asked the teacher what to practice... He looked around the room and found a manuscript of the Elgar Concerto, which at that time was very unpopular, seen by most players as just the music of an old man refecting on the past. Jacqueline took the manuscript home. Next week.... "How'd it go?!" Jacqueline apologised that she had only memorised the first movement. Her teacher, a bit taken aback, said "ok let's just hear that then", so JdP played the first movement. After that her teacher said "I can't teach you any more". He lined her up with a much more senior person in London and basically passed her up into the big time. This recording gives a flavour of those times and her amazing musicality. But please don't forget that the notes on the page come from a genius at another level, Mr. Elgar, from the North of England who despised the Royalty and the 'glory' of Southern England, yet wrote the Pomp and Circumstance marches for royal occasions. Barenboim ++, du Pre +++, Elgar ++++ :-D
and he was named after Ed Reardon's cat
Most of the stuff after "Mr Elgar" is bollocks.
Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet OM wasn't from the north of England; he was from the Midlands. He didn't despise royalty; he was a proud Englishman and royalist who accepted a baronetcy and the Order of Merit from his monarch. And what's this bullshit about the glory of the south of England?
@@nottmjasTypical small-r republican fascist nonsense.
Those opening chords are ELECTRIC.
Nice to see you, Joh
She has such a powerful sound for real, electrifying like a moonbeam
Cannnot disagree with such a talented musician
Anyone here after watching Tár? I had heard many interpretations of this piece but needed another one to fall in love even more.
Well, this one is probably the best available, because it's the very interpretation that Olga mentioned in the movie. And I can quite understand why.
Yes!!! I loved it, and just searched for this concert
@@clarac2805 Me too!!! I heard it mentioned by Olga in the movie and I’ve just found it. She’s absolutely breathtaking ❤❤❤
There is no better version. Nobody has played it this way.
To an Englishmen this is exactly what Elgar was thinking.
Do disrespect to Jo Jo, but…..
Once you’ve seen and heard this, you have to have sympathy for other Cellists to play it. But good luck to each and everyone of them. They probably realise before they play they cannot compete with her.
It was probably the best thing I got from the film tbh.
I love Edward's quote when he was on his deathbed, " If you're ever walking on the Malvern Hills and you hear this, don't be frightened, it's only me."
And the Malverns are truly beautiful.
@@sedekiman824do you have any recommendations where to stay? I’d love to visit!
@@callmechow6142 Motel 6 is always nice...(*ROFL!*)
She makes the 'cello cry. It's an extension of her; you can feel Elgar's pain through every tortured note. Hell...I knew she was good at the time but not 'this' good! Rest in peace Jackie!
I think this is the best classical performance ever. She is absolutely brilliant, making it look easy, with perfect tuning, innate musicianship and incredible strength, and she is perfectly supported by the sensitive orchestra, conducted by Barenboim, and she is in love with him - they are passionately in love, and there's plenty of big hair.
I couldn't agree more
It’s like she was a psychic medium, using her cello and artistry to connect directly with Elgar. Never before or since has anyone managed to capture the very essence of Elgar like Du Pre. He was present in the room with her from the opening bar to the closing pause. Every note she played was a celebration of him and every second of the performance was a celebration of her mastery, skill and artistry. Breathtaking.
YES! It was Ethereal and VERY sensuous!
Thank you ❤️
Reminds me of the lead female character from the movie "Three Colors: Blue" by Kieslowski.
Cathy Marsden choreographed a work for the Royal Ballet called ‘The Cellist’.
It tells the story of Jacqueline in dance, with a dancer portraying the cello.
The music combines many of the works she made her own - including this.
It is wonderful - Jacqueline really dancing with her instrument as, indeed, she appeared to do whilst performing.
Este un artist mistic.
1st movement 0:00
2nd movement 8:30
3rd movement 12:58
4th movement 18:19
thanks !
Soooooo helpful ! Thx !
Ahhh I was looking for this!
Not trying to be picky, but the first mvt was at 0:08 :)
Thank you!
Her cello cries in mind, her music flows in heart.
Exatamente!♥️
I lived in London at that time, now I'm an old lady in Italy, but will never forget Jackie & the Elgar Concerto, among others, nor how her sister has treated her memory.
sua sorella ha scritto un libro spregevole da cui un film falso nonostante la bella interpretazione di Emily Watson
When I was a student in Chicago, I skipped out if a class early to walk to Orchestra Hall precisely to see and hear the sublime art of the talented, lovely and famed Jaqueline du Pré. It felt like heaven. Soon after that I heard the news of the MS and couldn't believe it could possibly happen.
I was out driving the day Jacqueline’s death was announced on the local classical radio network. Of course, they played this piece. I found I was crying so much it made me a hazard to traffic. Had to pull over, park the car and listen right through to the end
absolutely moving reaction
@@katiavonaltrock1584 Absolutely ; tears
I get it. I can recall just hearing something for the first time and being moved to sobbing tears and needing to pull to the side of the road. I can only imagine a moment like this. So tragic. Yet somehow beautiful in a weird way.
I am the son of two late amateur musicians and when I see Daniel and Jacqueline together, that is how I imagine my parents playing together in heaven.
Hate to break it you but Daniel was not good to her, he cheated on her
@@limin1462 - People who say this actually know nothing of their relationship in her declining years. Her illness and early death was a great tragedy for all.
@@GH-oi2jf Barenboim hat ihre Spiritualität nie verstanden. Dafür büsst er heute.
While it was an amazing musical partnership, in the end, the marriage did not succeed...
@@limin1462 she wasn't exactly faithful to him either, by some accounts...
Помню, когда мой сын учился в музыкальной школе, она у всех была на слуху. Жалко рано ушла из жизни. Божественный звук виолончели. Вечная память о ней.
How a soul can reach beyond the limits of time and space to so deeply touch another.
I found a 1965 vinyl record of this with jaqui and john Barbirolli in a charity shop yesterday. Just waiting for my turntable to arrive in the mail!
That is THE recording of this concerto, it has the same combination of passion and artistry as this video
How amazing makes u think about who owned it and loved it too❤
It never fails to bring tears to my eyes, hearing Jacqui play this. The way she caresses the sound out of her cello, it is almost as if, as someone else has noted, she were channelling Elgar. How cruel to be given such talent and then have it taken away by disease.
Every once in a while when I’m sad i come back to watch this performance and cry
I thought I am the only one who cry listening to this, I am glad I am not alone
Hey yall im back to say its another one of those days
@@bigtony62301hmm
she makes it looks so easy with a smile on her face, what an extraordinary talent. She is the best...
i think it's because she became alive when she played
I feel something in my chest when I hear this - something alive , foundational and eternal, not as me now, but as its always has been and forever will be
I love Elgar's E minor and Du Pre's interpretation. It may help knowing that Edward Elgar composed this melancholy beauty at a time where he was immensely frustrated with the lack of enthusiasm and reception of his works. He was ready to quit composing. His wife pushed for him to keep going. I'm grateful he continued.
Having listened to this recording, I cannot stomach any other. It is just sublime.
I completely agree 👍
Yoyo ma comes close
Not true! Jacqueline Du Pre not The greatest! The greatest cellits Are really=Gaspar Cassado ( The most beautiful sound! Much Better than Du Pre) Gary Hoffman ( The King) Danil Shafran ( The God ) Arto Noras ( The biggest Cello tone ever! Du Pre a small tiny tone in The Big concert hall!!) Karine Georgian!!! The Bad cellists Are really=Yo-Yo Ma ( The most Boring Ever) Mischa Maisky ( The.most over-rated ever! The only. 6th place in The Tchaikovsky Cello competition!) Natalia Gutman ( Bad vibrato! Bad sound) Stephen Isserlis Truls Mork ( Mörk) Peter Whispelway! Sol Gabetta! Hauser ( really Bad!)
@@RaineriHakkarainen where is Rostropovich on your list?
And Casals was just some dude who smoked a pipe…geez!
I feel so bad for Elgar. His melodies are as unique as Brahms -- just this ambient sea of pure spirit and emotion. This concerto was everything to me in my childhood. Thank you Elgar!
Brahms??? lol
Wish Brahms wrote a cello concerto (no, not the Double Concerto), since he claimed that when he heard the Dvorak cello concerto for the first time, that he said if he knew the cello was so virtuosic, then he would’ve composed a cello concerto
@@robb6560 why not?
@@arturoromero951 Brahms wrote Double Concerto
@@ronenr1405 Sorry, didn't want to be rude. I like Brahms but only few pieces
She played at one of our school concerts in Norwich and I was very shy but found her sitting in a corner backstage with her cello and was drawn to her. We had a little conversation but I was captivated by her persona and later by her playing
Really?? Wow, that’s incredible! As a Norwich resident I was thrilled to read your comment :)
FPUND HIM DARREN HAYES OF SAVAGE GARDEN ITS DARKNESS
FOUND HIM
@@pamelapommetaylor6019 uh what
What a wonderful memory! ❤️
this is the best thing on youtube. we are so lucky that this exists. i must have watched this video at least a hundred times and i am yet to find something that completes me as much as it does. thank you for uploading.
Me too.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU: THE BEST VIDEO ON RUclips FOREVER
As a cellist, she’s been an idol,of mine since I was about 15..the best of all cellists,,,,
@@cindymcfarlane9371 I don't know You but i'm sorry and happy to tell I love You sincerely..
I TOTALLY agree with you
Can they have known that they were making history when they recorded this? Did they have any idea what they had done?
Probably not until they were well into it, or maybe not until it was over,
but to fail to realize it at some point seems impossible.
It is indeed a musically and historically important performance.
It’s simply amazing!,
I think people are always imagining they're making history, except when in private, or not recording stuff etc
they sorta hope this is will be historical
Yes.
Am asculta acest concert in aceasta interpretare de peste 100 ori și mereu rămâne ceva sublim de descoperit. Oh, luminoasă și gravă, Jaqueline!...
That is what is great about classical music - it reaches such depths
Only if you have them.
I find it so sad that the first performance of this piece flopped, and it was never really appreciated until the sixties, thirty years after the death of Elgar. Great minds are never appreciated in their time.
Well Elgar was appreciated in his time wasn't he? Just not this piece?
The music was waiting for Jacqueline du Pre.
That's because great minds are always ahead of their time
Not _never_ but hardly ever. : - )
@@svetsarkirurgen2 When he wrote the CC, nobody liked him anymore because they thought his music was too old-fashioned.
Merveilleuse Jacqueline Du Pré si incroyablement douée et tellement regrettée qui nous donne une interprétation magistrale de ce très beau concerto.
There are no words to describe how beautiful this is to me. Every time i hear this piece i have to stop what im doing and listen.
That's the only way!
I made the mistake of driving whilst listening to this. That was not a clever thing to do. Luckily, I was able to enjoy another day, another performance.
몸 전신으로 치는데 손은 상당히 부드럽게 잘 하고 장대 하나 무언가가 날카롭고 예리하네요!
예쁘네요 정말, 투지가있어요?
Jacqueline makes me cry! Everytime! Her interpretation is just so pure and innocently naive!
I'm listening to this heart stopping tear jerker for the umpteenth time in my life. No other rendition will do. This one is written down in my DNA.
Died at 42 of MS and from deeply abusive background, said 'the brick wall in front of me only disappeared when I played the cello and I could speak at last'
The "deeply abusive background" to which you refer has the name of Daniel Barenboim, aka Creep-a-Zoid of the Century...
BS.
@@CLASSICALFAN100 He's so short lol
@@CLASSICALFAN100 was he really abusive to her?
Yea
자클린의 연주는 아픔을 시원하게 애절하게 노래합니다. 이보다 더 잘할수 없어요.들을때마다
그녀에게 감사합니다.
Words fail me. That is why we have music.
And yet you have words enough to tell us you have no words?
@@liammurphy2725 Daddy Murphy, can you please chill?
My cellist housemate used to play this practising over and over again.she asked me if I minded...I said no, it's one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. And this...the way jaqueline du pre plays it..omg she is at one with her instrument...you can't separate the two and the orchestra is wonderful too x
Nobody attacks that first chord like Jackie.♥️ She plays that beast like it's a game of life and death, which sadly, is what it turned out to be.😢
The amount of talent, in that woman, is off the scale. Unmesurable. All musicians are blessed, beyond belief.
One of the all time greatest musical performances.
Sans doute
Unbelievable. It was my luck to hear her play this piece, an experience which will never be exceeded.
Your very good beautiful from Korean kyu sang
폭넒게 하시네 요 잘하시네요?
I saw here in Minneapolis. She was stunning.
i was in my early twenties when I first attended one of her concerts and was enchanted by her playing. We lost much when she left us but she gave us so many treasures to see us through the years.
The part at 2:40 gives me chills every time that I hear it. I have never heard anything else played with such passion as this.
Her wailing slide from the A up to the E at the very end of the last movement is insane!
Though the performance is beautiful and masterful, and Ms. du Pre's impassioned interpretation of the concerto remains the hallmark other cellists strive to emulate, it is before a single note has been played where I find my favorite moment of this wonderful video.
Jackie finishes tuning her cello while Daniel watches and, while she is distracted and he can look at her unnoticed, he does so with genuine affection -- heartbreaking,in retrospect -- his love writ plain for all to see, guileless, stupid, transcendent love.
Then you see in his expression that she has caught him out, that the spy has been espied. Their eyes meet and, confident, together they leap recklessly into the dangerous mists of genius.
M Lipton I need a more simpler version
Elgar was the pre-eminent British composer of the 20th century. His Cello Concerto was a MONSTER to perform! Du Pre was possibly the first (or only) cellist who could do it right. This is a masterpiece of performance. Enjoy! Don't try to critique it!
Listening to it now, I am just awestruck! Again...
+william boyle Not sure why you see a critique in the above. JDP created the archetypal interpretation of this concerto, and this (and how lucky are we that the video still survives?) is her purest, most primal performance of same. It is her romantic/erotic connection to Barenboim, and through him, to the orchestra. They are making love before our eyes, him goading her, his conducting aggressive, challenging but ultimately submissive to her mastery of her craft.
Again, we are so bloody lucky this exists.
M Lipton aa
So glad I was able to snag this on vinyl. The sound is amazing and fills every corner of the house.
You made me realize I haven't listened to a vinyl recording in years. I've forgotten about the fullness of sound they produce. I wonder if they still sell those awesome Technics turntables.
그예리한것을 어떻게 몸전신으로 받네요 느껴보고 ,
너무나 섬세하게 하시네요?
@@Marcus9638 they sure do... Just very expensive now! Glad I scored all 3 of mine between 2009-11 second hand for £500 all in!
I can almost feel my body elevating from the ground with every note she plays with such finesse, precision, and emotion. What a beautiful performance.
I remember when I was 11 and starting to learn cello, I listened to this video and was wowed by Du Pré's sheer talent. Now at 16, I am still wowed by her playing, but now I have the honor of using this recording as a reference and inspiration while I study this piece. There are no words to describe my admiration of du Pré's skill.
Love this, it’s so great to know I’m not the only one; this video also started it all for me. I was 14 when I watched for the first time, and 2 days later my parents bought me a cello and I haven’t stopped since, when I was in my teens I literally couldn’t put the instrument down, let alone stop watching this video!
I was so lucky that my teacher for 7 years at the RCM and her were very close friends, so I heard so many wonderful stories about her, she was a wonderful, eclectic, innocent and beautiful soul.
I’m 29 now, a professional cellist, and it really is all because of this performance. It’s so unspeakably tragic she’s no longer with us, imagine what she would have gone on to do… and the music that would have been written for her. At least we’re left with these few recordings.
All the best to you and your cello life xx
I am 11 now and working on 1 and 2 to play with orchestra in May
Elgar wrote this after WW1 and it just makes me think of someone crying and lamenting over things lost.
Thanks makes sense
This is what commitment, passion, intelligence, heart & rising to the moment looks like! 👌🙏👏👏❤️
I can't listen to anyone else playing this. RIP Jacqueline... 😭😭😭
I can’t watch this without crying buckets. Both the music and knowing her own tragic story, it tears my soul apart.
RIP Jacqueline, you left the world such a wonderful legacy with your beautiful playing. ❤
The only thing more wonderful than the music itself is to watch Miss du Pre and the passion she puts into each note.
The best musical description of loneliness ever written, performed by the best ever interpreters. Perfect. Thank you.....
Had not listened to this in a while. Just got a shiver from my toes right to my shoulders.
it is best to keep it fresh. some people talk about keeping listening; that's not the way. you can only feel the magic a few times and then when you go back it blows you away.
@@frereanaktom99 That shiver was something negative leaving you.
Thinking of my father and his love of classical music. Some tears.
I wish I could have played the viola in this league just for his pride. RIP.
David Mifsud It's never too late to start.
My heart is in my mouth every time I watch this performance. 7.25 - it explodes. And then it revives me.
This version is not the gold standard. It is the PLATINUM standard. R.I.P. Jacquie. ❤❤❤❤🎶🎶🎵🎵
I can't believe ASMR is a thing when masterpieces like THIS exist.
asmr is thought to be a neurological phenomenon, and has its place. both have their place
This was my concert for my cello graduation...And It will be always my concert...Best version ever...greeting to all cellists and cello lovers from Cayman Islands...Blessings
What’s remarkable and so enjoyable is her joy and intensity of playing. I give credit to the people who filmed her! Her in the picture when she plays and clarinets or the whole orchestra when needed. It looks like the film makers also knew the piece by heart! Excellent!! It makes it such a joy to watch!
I already saw this performance as one of the most incredible shows of human artistic capability long before I watched Tár.
In the restaurant scene, when Olga mentioned that this video inspired her to be a cellist, it touched me deep as any movie scene has never did before. I felt that scene was made for me. I could identify with Olga in a very, very special way, because loving this performance looked like something very intimate and special and suddenly is a bond between me and the movie character. Totally and strongly the magic of cinema. Tár is already one of my favorite movies because of this.
If this does not move you, you may actually be dead.
The marveollous concerto, one of the best music which I know.
When I wrote my first draft for my novel in 2017, I spent every morning in the library before getting to work listening to this at least once. It is not only one of my favorite cello performances, but one of my favorite performances of any music ever. I almost know it by heart, even the little "errors" and I don't think I will ever stop loving this performance. If I could get it on CD I would in a heartbeat.
It's funny how, nowadays, everybody tries to put some self-aggrandizement into their RUclips comments. Is "while I was writing my first novel" really necessary?
@@CLASSICALFAN100 Oh wow, it's a while since I left this comment. And I wasn't trying to be aggrandizing or whatever, I was just feeling all nostalgic about the time in my life I was listening to this performance constantly. I could have talked about flunking out of college, which was also going on at the time, but I instead focused on the happy stuff. I'd like to ask you why you feel the need to cut people's achievements and little moments of pride down. Should I instead have put, "Writing a shitty novel that I never put out or edited because it was so godawful, but it was the only thing in my life that made it feel worth living?" Because that's not the comment I wanted to write. I wanted some happy nostalgia. Let people enjoy things and feel pride ffs
@@kimamato5196 i love this comment by the way - i listen to it in libraries studying too. I'm studying for my a levels and i really love thinking of others in a similar position to me, working away with this incredible piece on. It's fantastic you wrote a book, even if you never published it, and that wasn't self aggrandising at all. I think you can get a CD of it? My mum has one.
@@shiframorris-evans9072
Kim, what was your novel about?
Jacqueline du Pre , Edward Elgar and Daniel Barenboim , what a symbiosis ! Wonderful ! I got to know Edward Elgar through my choirmaster. He gave me the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, op. 85, for my birthday over 30 years ago. I still love Edward Elgar. I loved my choirmaster Christoph until he broke my heart. But there was a wonderful love even beyond death. Jacqueline and Daniel! Every time I hear this concert, I get goose bumps, and the tears run with emotion.
I’ve listened to this recording several times as it its at the top of my list of favorite recorded concertos for any instrument. And although I think Elgar was a great composer, Du Pre elevates this piece to a level that even now I’ve not seen topped for the emotional weight and joy she places in the piece, let alone the technique that even I a non-cellist (trumpet player myself) can see as exceptional.
But watching this for the first time, even more so can I say that she is not just an instrumentalist or cellist. The cello is her, and she is the cello. Anyone who has studied music can attest to how hard it is just to work on the technical skills required to perform even halfway close to this; but to possess those technical skills and then bring out all of the emotional depths and heights a piece of music can offer, from the dynamic and colored range of the quiet and warm through the bold and bright, to the absolutely stunning vibrato on display here, the give and take between the orchestra and the soloist. All of that and more is what makes this woman something that I cannot really place into words but the best analogy is that she paints the air with her sound and if you close your eyes you can see that sound in your mind as clearly as any painting.
Never heard a more beautiful cello concerto and a better performing
You can't make up a greater romance, that kiss after the performance, that was about unity.
What sound she got from a cello. magnificent. This is my first hearing of the work. I listened to several soloists and while all were adequate it was not until Ms. du Pre did I hear the passion and true music.
The definitive interpretation. Got to be how Elgar wanted it. And none of todays Cellists can touch it.
She was absolutely gifted.
Sheku isn't too bad either ;)
They V really can’t record
Have you heard Yo-Yo Ma's interpretation? It's quite marvelous as well, just in a different (less dark) way.
Yes. As excellent as he is. The softening and rounding arrangement doesn’t appeal to me.
I think the JDP version is definitive because, just like watching a brilliant Actor, you can find yourself inside the Writer’s mind. JDP seems to make you feel just like Elgar. It may be a trick. But few musicians can perform at that level.
@@MaruniusIs it a joke? It's not close to this at all.
Touching beyond words. She expressed the music with every fiber of her being.
She's like an angel ❤
yes I don't think she is quite like the rest of us
Don't know why, but whenever listening to this beautiful one, tears on my eyes...
quelle violoncelliste délicieuse ange et démon sur son instrument ,extraordinaire interprétation de ce concerto d'Elgar. nous n'oublieront jamais cette merveilleuse interprète !!!
'Deep calls unto deep' as the psalmist expressed it. Truly we enter into something special created by Edward Elgar, who revealed in this composition a truly beautiful, soul stirring and uplifting experience interpreted with such passion and finesse by the irreplaceable Jacqueline du Pré.
BRILLIANT!
Can give me goosebumps as well as bringing me to tears!
Every time man, every time I hear that introduction it gives me that exact feeling. The whole concerto is a roller coaster of emotions, fear, passion, desperation, love, anger, and I would call that life.
Isaac Nunez well said, sir.
Same for me every time I hear it.
goosebumps and tears for me too. There is an incredible interview on you tube of Dupre, when she was ill, this woman had a great mind and a limitless soul.
@@ayzack2361 LOVED EVERYTHIG YOU WROTE
En tant que prof de violoncelle, voilà ce que je montre à mes élèves, comme symbole absolu de l'engagement musical et de la sensibilité dans le répertoire écrit.
Fantastický zážitok. Je úžasné akú silu má táto hudba. RIP Jacqueline !
The repeat button is about to break.
Huh
This is so powerful, made me cry…
god i honestly am not sure if i have ever seen anyone play an instrument like she does. she just makes you fall in love with the cello through her.
A true masterpiece, Elgar Cello Concerto. ❤️
Genuinely timeless. This can be played in any time period and it'll leave the listener breathless
The last few seconds of this video is so bittersweet ... "He's got my shoe!" She laughs and they walk off, two young musical geniuses in love, in all their glory, never knowing the tragedies that lay ahead.
Forgive my ignorance, what happened to them? What tragedies?
@@andrewanderson3016 du Pre was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her 20’s and eventually had to stop performing. Barenboim and du Pre married young and he cared for her until her death 14 years later. In the latter years though, he also started a relationship with the woman who’s now his wife. No judgement here, we will never know how hard it was for both of them.
@@hearttune98 thank you for the background info, really appreciate the quick breakdown.
This is what dreams are made of: Jaqueline DuPré
was an angel, not quite of this earth. Her playing was beyond music. Her existence was a gift from G-d.
if there is a god he should not have taken Jacqueline away
Even if life does go back to normal one day... I'll never hear music played like this live... I'm unsure if I could cope if it were possible. The whole of history seems to float by one as one listens...
a chance conversation (with a customer, about her son's cello lessons) - suddenly tapped into JdP memories - how on earth I forgot about her and Elgar's music is beyond me, but I DO live in a cultural desert. Emotions crash through me like waves on a rock - they both soar and despair, such is the power and skill of this woman's playing. Thank god she's digitally immortalised. Thanks for posting :)
unbelievable how beautiful this is.
To me, this piece feels like breathing. The pauses between the phrases leave me in anticipation, the swells move so naturally. I can't stop listening to it or thinking about it, I just want to live in this sound forever.
I have no words to express what I am feeling right now. All I can say is that so far she has inspired me more than any violinist I ever watched.
Every time I hear this concerto, I get the feeling that Elgar is saying, "This is who I am, deal with it."