Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Hilary and Jackie, the biopic about the British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, came out in 1998, it intrigued ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Never shy of tackling complex stories, Cathy Marston has attempted to tell the life and tragically short career ...

Just when a name or an event should have receded to a distant corner of the memory a reminder flashes and it all comes rushing back. The other day we picked up a collection of classical recordings and ...

Proud, diffident, exuberant, reserved – all those words the English once used of themselves became freely associated with both performer and work, the two almost indistinguishable from one another in ...

Richard Strauss, “Don Quixote” and “Tod und Verklaerung” (“Death and Transfiguration”), performed by the MET Orchestra, James Levine conducting and (in “Don Quixote”) cellist Jerry Grossman, violist ...

MANILA, Philippines - The film impact of Shine and Hilary & Jackie was revealing even among non-music aficionados. Perhaps one way to improve musical education in this country is to expose both young ...

Only recently re-discovered, a performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto filmed in September 1968 by Jacqueline du Pre at the very height of her musical powers. Show more Only recently re-discovered, a ...

Jacqueline du Pré’s offstage persona was irreverent, kind and compassionate. She had a mind that was both keenly intelligent and relentlessly curious. Onstage she was known to give everything to the ...

Jacqueline du Pré, was born into a middle-class English family in Oxford on 26 January 1945. Hers was a musical household, and at the age of four the young Jackie was famously struck by the sound of a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jacqueline du Pré’s offstage persona was irreverent, kind and compassionate. She had a mind that was ...