Jacqueline du Pré - Her Early BBC Recordings Volume 1 ~ Bach, Falla, Britten / Luch, Kovacevich

Johann Sebastian Bach (Artist), Benjamin Britten (Artist), Manuel de Falla (Artist), Jacqueline du Pré (Artist), Stephen Kovacevich (Artist), Ernest Lush (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B000002S13
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,452 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude

2. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande

3. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: III. Courante

4. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande

5. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: V. Menuets I & II

6. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue

7. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: I. Prélude

8. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande

9. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante

10. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande

11. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuets I & II

12. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue

13. Sonata for cello & piano in C major, Op. 65: II. Scherzo (Pizzicato)

14. Sonata for cello & piano in C major, Op. 65: IV. Marcia

15. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): El Pańo moruno

16. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Asturiana

17. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Jota

18. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Nana

19. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Canción

20. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Polo

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't help but be moved, May 15, 2000

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This review is from: Jacqueline du Pré - Her Early BBC Recordings Volume 1 ~ Bach, Falla, Britten / Luch, Kovacevich (Audio CD)

People either love Jacqueline Du Pre's playing or absolutely hate it. I personally love it. She plays with such powerful emotion and conviction that you can't help but be moved in some way. She never holds back. You almost feel like you're performing the pieces with her. It is soulful cello playing. She knows how to make the cello sound its best. It's a wonderful recording. I highly recommend it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of the cellist as a young woman, November 17, 2002

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Luis Miguel Muelle "Soli Deo Gloria" (Roswell, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jacqueline du Pré - Her Early BBC Recordings Volume 1 ~ Bach, Falla, Britten / Luch, Kovacevich (Audio CD)

This CD has been coupled with Vol. 2 in a set with ASIN # B00000JQY1, also available here at Amazon.com, and for the same price as this one volume.

These BBC recordings are a wonderful glimpse into the raw talent that was Jacqueline du Pre *as a teenager*! That she dared to play the Bach shows us her "chutzpah" and her daring -- which are components of her playing the rest of her life. She risked everything in every note she played. I agree with Gloria below about Yo Yo Ma's playing, being so clean and perfect that it lacks soul. Jackie was all soul and heart, and she wore them on her sleeve and in her bow.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Luminous, Sparkling Flecks from a Gem, September 20, 2000

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jack schaaf - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jacqueline du Pré - Her Early BBC Recordings Volume 1 ~ Bach, Falla, Britten / Luch, Kovacevich (Audio CD)

With the appearance of the excellent "les intouvables" collection of du Pre's EMI recordings, a codification which includes a sampling of most everything, why on earth would one opt to glance at the individual selections? The reasons are twofold: First, with the collection one may hear the works together, never fully appreciating their accomplishments individually and that in order to experience the mastery and history of the recordings one might choose to hear them separately. Second, the works as separately released also carry in addition to a complete chronolgic and historic arrangement (see e.g., the last Haydn concerto), the individual recordings coprise additional works meant to be included within their respective final format. Experiencing here individual recordings is something like carefully exmaning the chinks and flecks of crystal dust taken from a larger shard of quartz: they refract as much in their own brilliance disassembled and apart from the main as they do when seen together. Du Pre's early BBC recordings, while perhaps less exemplary of her larger talent (as with her Elgar), are instructive. Bach and the Suites for Unaccompanied Violincello, you ask? By someone not yet in her twenties? What of the mastery and excellence of Casals, Rostropovich, Mainardi? Why waste time on a demigod? The early recordings allow one to see exactly how du Pre interpreted the works at such an age before more fully maturing. Here -and one only catches glimpses and flashes of this brilliance- the young but very competent cellist displays artistry par with (or tempered by) her virtuosity where unaccompaniment (sans Barenboim) can reach levels of their own excellence. Part dramatic, part contemplative, the pace varies and offers some surprises. Luminous, near-clairvoyant sense of rhythym and eloquence.