Jacqueline du Pré & London Symphony Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli & Janet Baker Elgar

ELGAR: Cello Concerto, Op.85

Jacqueline du Pré, cello

Sir John Barbirolli, director

London Symphony Orchestra

ELGAR: Sea photos Op. 37

Janet Baker

Sir John Barbirolli, director

London Symphony Orchestra

Stereo EMI Recording

Francisco Camino gives the highest award to this recording and says: the two interpretations that this album brings together belong to a higher artistic category, one of those privileged, magical moments, the conjunction of stars in the cosmos and on Earth. (About Sea Pictures) Barbirolli inflamed and Baker pampering every phrase, every word, with its incomparable timbre. exciting.

Jacqueline Du Pre's career lasted only 11 years, but in that space of time she achieved a reputation as one of the best cellists of the twentieth century. Shortly after his debut in 1961, at the age of 16, he played Elgar's Cello Concerto in public for the first time with great success. In August 1965 he recorded the work for HMV. Its director was Sir John Barbirolli, a famous performer of Elgar who had met the composer as a young man. Although Du Pre went on to make many other superlative recordings it is at the Elgar concert, and this recording, which is most remembered. The rich romantic and nostalgically autumnal mood of the work is a fitting and fitting monument to an artist whose acting career was cruelly interrupted by illness at the age of 42.

In August 1965, Barbirolli made a second recording of Elgar with another outstanding young artist, mezzo-soprano Janet Baker, whose finely Sung and imaginative rendition of the beautiful Sea Pictures song cycle makes an ideal coupling for Du Pre's performance.

The famous LP is available in audiophile testament reissue. Authentic analog techniques have been used to transfer from the original recording, and high quality 180 gram presses have been made with Virgin vinyl. The registration is issued in a special limited edition for collectors.