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. Never shy of tackling complex stories, Cathy Marston has attempted to tell the life and tragically short career ...

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 ...

Choreographed by Cathy Marston, the Royal Ballet’s upcoming production celebrates the life and many loves of the virtuoso cellist as she battled with multiple sclerosis. The Royal Ballet has announced ...

They were the best of times: Jacqueline du Pré with two convivial partners, Pinchas Zukerman (violin) and Daniel Barenboim (piano) Again like Callas, she was a heaven-sent gift for EMI, and not a ...

Lauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels ...

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 ...

If you want to raise money for multiple sclerosis research by staging a recital, there can be no more appropriate venue than the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, named after the famous cellist who ...

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 ...