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  • The movie Hillary and Jackie and the book by her siblings barely touches on her bizarre behavior before she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 28.

    Jackie was one of a kind. I would someday like to put roses on her grave. She has touched my heart.

  • paulusmaximusvii,I agree with your wonderfull Defination abaut this Wonder,Wonderfull Interpretation Melodie,from J.Du Pre and the other Facts,that you already Diskribed.i have also your Thinking,Opinion and Imagination abaut Kosmos and the Universe,i wish you all the best in your Life,also thanks a lot for Uploading this amazing Video.

  • :'( I love it....

    

  • testament to humanity

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  • @dantedirenzo I thought that at first, too. Then I really listened (not saying you aren't!) and played the piece; each note is like a piece of taffy on the puller - the longer you stretch it out, the more profundity it has. Once again, this is just my way of thinking about it. Cheers!

  • omg, this movement is so amazing, it is so luscious, I am melting!

  • Thank you for posting, my favorite is the 3rd mvt.

  • some people sound dumb. so the person who said she stopped in 72, do u think if she was still alive and was healthy she wouldnt performing now.?

    but anyways. amazing.

  • 13.5 billion years to get to this, it was worth the wait though; wasn't it.

  • @chopfooey

    She stopped performing 40 years ago, when did you manage to see her? She pretty much stopped all serious concerts in 71, though she did try a comeback of sorts on 73 managing only 3 out of four...

  • The most often volatile relationship between the conductor and the soloist takes on a whole new beauty here. A young husband and wife playing together! May they live on forever.

  • What I wouldn't give to have seen this in person or have it filmed in high definition with better sound quality. After seeing her just once I realized everything I had heard up until that point was garbage.

    So beautifully and unbelievably tender. Such power and grace.

    Bravo!

  • @ChopFooey wow u saw her perform ? you are so lucky ! thats priceless.

  • "God had touched his brow..." Segovia about Williams...he might have said it for dear old Jackie...

  • Commodo ignosco paulusmaximusvii, quisnam est Cretan quod moron.

  • Read the book of Matthew and then tell me God doesn't understand "turmoil, sadness, love and all that other good stuff".

  • ...assuming he exists of course?

  • too bad her career was stopped short. Good thing she performed her best before she even died. But it would have been better.

  • where did you get this footage?

  • This brings peace into my heart everytime.

  • Heavenly !

  • Oh, Amen!!

  • I love her playing the cello. I first heard her playing Elgar when I was about 10. And from that on I wished I could play this piece someday. It's so beautiful. I'm learning it in my lessons and it's not even hard. the only hard thing is to put such powerful emotions in it as du pre did. i doubt i'll ever be so damn good. She really was a master in what she did.

  • Wondering if she is seeing all who are touched at this very instant by her incredible talent. Maybe.

  • Part of this could be due to the sound quality, which obviously wasn't as good back in the time when du Pre's rendition was recorded.

  • Her playing is so quietly passionate and her intimacy with her cello so absolute at times it feels almost voyeuristic to be watching it. In particular look at her face at : 4.00 - 4.30. I don't know where her mind is, but it's not on a stage with her husband conducting the orchestra. I thank all the Gods of Fate for bringing together all the dramatis personae and then to have a camera crew capture this most magical of moments for posterity.

    Barenboim? Or could it be Rodney Bewes?

  • It was Barenboim and they were married at the time. Did you know that the cello she is playing here is the Strad yellow cello which she gave to Yo Yo Ma before here death. As much as I enjoy Yo Yo Ma, I feel comfortable in saying that Jackie was the greatest cellist of our time.

  • @jamflu It wasn't given to Yo Yo Ma. It was bought by the Vuitton foundation for about a million pounds and loaned to him. It now belongs to someone else, though.

  • It's Barenboim!

  • barenboim, Jacqueline du Pré forever!!!!!!!!

  • this is just so incredibly beautiful.

  • I feel lost at 1:42, like I just woke up from a frighteningly simple dream that I cannot understand....

  • This is just fantastic to watch and hear. Does anyone know if there's a DVD of this?

  • Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait, I believe.

  • Of course there is. I own it, you can probably buy it online, well worth it to!

  • i question my agnostism after hearing her..

  • God would not understand this music if he existed. it's a testament to human turmoil, sadness, love and all that other good stuff. How could god possibly understand those things? it's kinda demeaning of the human spirit, that whenever one encounters something beautiful, that it must be some cosmic intervention. i would sooner worship Jacqueline or Elgar as gods, then try to attribute their art to some omnipresent jack-off. no offense.

  • i totally agree with you, no offense taken. and liked the way you put that. If god did exist he should'nt take the credit for this or anything else for that matter. this is a beautiful peice

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  • Why are you arguing the existence of God on this page? Do you really feel that strong of an urge to preach that God is an imagined entity? Why can't you just enjoy the music and admire the creative beauty?

  • @paulusmaximusvii

    the same way we humans understand the things we make and are good at making. Whether that be cars, cakes, or computers (no alliteration intended!) If you created it, you'd definitely know it!

  • @ellieguymer Yeah, I suppose that since God created suffering, he would have some understanding of it. But does he know what it feels like to be powerless against it? I think that only humans can understand that. you ever seen Amadeus? That movie talks about a similar problem.

  • @paulusmaximusvii eligion and like institutions are becoming irrelevant. the reason the world's so messed up is because we're going through evolution. we need new philosophies, new religion.

  • @paulusmaximusvii Why do you have to trample on other people's beliefs? God means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I hate when people say no offense to something thats obviously going to offend people (Calling their god a jack-off) If you don't want to offend people, don't say something offensive!

  • @gstryker18 Point taken. I don't know. It has something to do with centuries of religious oppression, which I cannot help but associate with "God" I apologize for using that kind of language, however, I'm going to continue to express my opinion about anything I'd like on public forums.

  • @paulusmaximusvii

    She was obviously born better than most people at music. Saying God or nature helped in an endeavor is not demeaning. To stress this point, if she were born mentally deficient, she'd be a nobody. What is demeaning is someone who insults the majority of peoples' beliefs on planet earth and then ends it with "no offense."

    By the way, it is "THAN try to attribute ..." Only idiots or 3rd graders make that mistake. No offense.

  • @DEBROXDEBROX I meant 'no offense' in sarcastic disdain; I was pissed off. It was unnecessary, but I'm not going to apologize for anything other than that; calling 'God' a Jack-off is putting it mildly and if you find it offensive to be disagreed with, stay off public forums! Attacking a minor error is a red herring for your poor argument, the human experience doesn't make sense if our sufferings/triumphs are designed. It is humans' search for purpose that has produced the most profound art.

  • @paulusvii97

    My argument is perfect, and I never used your weakness at English as a premise in it, clearly separating it from the argument via what the literate call "paragraphs." Further, I never said anything about design, so congratulations on your straw man fallacy.

  • @DEBROXDEBROX Your argument in the first place was a straw man; I never said that it was demeaning to say that they were "born with natural talent" I said that it was to attribute their achievement to 'God'. If you would like to have a reasonable discussion, that's fine, but I'm not going to continue to have flame wars. That means I respect you, you respect me, we trade ideas. No stupid accusations (like that I can't read, give me a break!)

  • @paulusvii97

    It's as I've said, when the religious thank God for an accomplishment, they are humbly admitting their success's dependence on uncontrollable variables. Everyone calls these variables reality, but some attribute them to nothing (i.e. they will thank nature in their recognition of such dependence) and others to God.

    In sum, you were saying that being thankful for natural talent is demeaning since the religious are basically stating that gratitude when they thank God.

  • @DEBROXDEBROX Demeaning was too strong. You're probably right that most mean it in sincere humility, I have trouble seeing it that way because your 'uncontrollable variables' infer that God either has no control over whom succeeds or dies in obscurity, or that God is callous and indifferent: if either is true, then his presence is indistinguishable from his absence. The claim, then, that one soul has been chosen either at random or by a mysterious plan, irks me; however well intentioned it is.

  • @paulusvii97

    So are you admitting you were wrong? You've seemed to change the topic slightly. Instead of discussing how insulting a phrase is, you're discussing faults you find in the theoretical idea of a God. Once we close this argument, then I can mull over your new position, see if I agree with it (if I can even determine so), and then argue with you on it if I do not or perhaps post support for it if I do.

  • @DEBROXDEBROX I can't be sure what you think the topic is, there are lots of relevant tangents. Personally I've questioned whether it is such a bad thing to offend people, as I said earlier I meant 'no offense' sarcastically. Was my actual point wrong? I don't think so, however, I've learned that I should pick my battles. I realize that everyone has the right to enjoy and compliment the music in their own way. I've been trying to remove the comment, but the button is broken on my browser.

  • @DEBROXDEBROX

    Why did you have to taint such beautiful music with such hateful words?

  • @paulusmaximusvii To know oneself, is to know the one Self; the boundless source and substratum of everything.

  • @paulusmaximusvii Well in the person of Jesus he might - getting crucified is a pretty good way of understanding the human condition, I would have thought. I am not religious, but dislike the trendy anti-religious spirit that's abroad these days.

  • Just human ;)

  • @bodine1975man Which side are you on then now, after knowing what happened to her? The question is rhetoric.

  • No need to choose a side, but to say theres nothing would in my opinion be a mistake. She's a brilliant musician and i get chills when I hear her play. Not only does she have talent she also has a gift.

  • @tasteism The unfaithful Barenboim

  • If there is any cellist I would like to be like it would have to be good old Jackie. This makes my eyes overflow, it's so stunning. The emotion she puts into it and the connection she has with her cello, I hope I can play this as well as her one day. Such an inspiration!

    <3

  • jajajaj his fingers are like spiders hahha so he has had this for so long

  • Perfect! Brought on the tears. du pre just blows my mind everytime I hear her play!

  • marvelous! du Pre is simply stupendous!!! xD

  • This is amazing and gets better each movement. Makes me want to play the cello. Do they have one for violas?

  • Theirs a video of someone playing it on Viola somewhere on YouTube.

  • can not not get emotional every time seeing it.

  • u go girl

  • See th@ @ 02:55 ~ Th@'s not a technical glitch as it may appear to some. No, the camera was actually working perfectly but when music this awesome is cre@ed, it can affect the matrix of the time/space continuum and this is wh@ we see happening here. (There should be an article about it in 'Q' magazine; ))

    It's a fantastic composition, exquisitely played.

  • This is the best piece ever

  • Yes, I could be going about my day and suddenly if I hear this coming out of the speakers it stops me dead in my tracks. Tremendous.

  • Oh come on - this is the most beautiful piece ever written!

  • This piece of music reminds me of the sea,the sorrow,the desire,the tears----

  • An English rose playing quintessential English music. Close your eyes and imagine floating over the Malvern hills. Once in a life time this way comes................

  • To me this is one of the most amazing pieces. The emotion, feeling... the whole concerto is just amazing. And then in the hands of du pre... It just does not get any better.

  • Think about what this peice is about - if the destruction of a generation isn't an underlying human flaw that what is...?? This music is about the HUMAN experience.

  • it's a post-civilization lament, like ravel's la valse and tombeau de couperine.

    it's a very 'human' piece, i agree. imo jsbach, a most magnificently 'human' human, would think so, too.

  • Although, the second movement does remind me of a road-runner cartoon. But again, humor is endemic to human.

  • To me the 2nd is more like spiders, madness, shellshock. It's frenzied rather than humorous. WW1 in the trenches.  Though I won't claim to have come up with this interpretation myself (there was a doco which gave this description). However, it does make sense.

  • eff me, but she's making me like elgar. i'd've thought that about impossible.

  • Impossible to listen without taking into account her tragic fate. It's the same mystery as with any genius that has only got little time, too little to express all her possibilities but still enough to give an interpretation of the Elgar concerto which seems unsurpassable for all times.

  • I loved it when she & Daniel smiled at each other, I imagine it must be a thrill that your own husband conducts you.. and viceversa, him conducting the leading instrument, his wife lol

  • non ho mai provato un emozione simile ascoltando uno strumento!!!!!stavo per piangere!!!!!:'[

  • heavenly

  • Hearing Du Prè it is like been in heaven, she is an angel...she died to soon =(...

  • Tienes razón, se puede verla que es un angel y también se puede oírla, la música divina... de otro mundo...

  • Brilliant cellist and sad loss to music as sheundoubtedly was, Du Pre was most cetainly no angel, as the television documentary of her life showed. Still, geniuses are often flawed in one way or another, so let her music, rather than behaviour, be her legacy.

  • @frankop26 why do the good die young?!?!?!?

  • A rare, and (sadly, all too quickly) vanishing beauty.

  • 'A swan song of rare and vanishing beauty'

  • Oog contact!

  • Thank you markvogue.

    A great deal is always said about Du Pre's passion, and all of it true, though sometimes mixed up with the fact that she was very beautiful in an unaffected way - there is a smile at the end of an earlier movement which is absolutely stunning. And there are always the Plath-fiend types wanting a new pet victim.

    But all this ignores her musical intelligence, her musicality, and the happy chance the Elgar wrote a piece just perfect for those.

  • Brilliant. 'nuff said.

  • Impressive.

  • Yeah where is the last movement, however, thank you for these movements :)

  • Sorry about the last movement.

    I'm already uploading de fourth movement.

    =)

    Thank you all!

  • The 4th is my favourite, I can't wait to see it!

  • =) It's posted

  • Oh my gosh! where is the last movement!?!? Some body please help me find it?! it's torturing me to hear the first 3 and not able to hear the last!!

  • definitely ı agree with you,i think

    she is an angel ...

  • definitely ı agree with you,i think

    she is an angel ...

  • cello concerto .not violin concerto

  • Excellent piece, I found free sheet music for it on SheetMusicFox DOT com and absolutely love it!

  • During a rehearsal, Thomas Beecham made this sexist double-entendre to a lady cello player in his orchestra: "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it!" Dirty old man. Now, J du Pre playing here would have made Beecham eat, or lick his words. She and her cello are one, a medium through which this beautiful, quintessentially English music is being transmitted for posterity to enjoy and cherish. SD Goh (Malaysia)

  • WHERE IS THE 4TH MVMT???????

  • this melodie goes directly trough my heart and penetrate the internal divisions of my soul ... and cannot explain what i am felling ight now ... i´m drinking my "cachaça" and dreamming about ...

  • I'm looking forward to your uploading the 4th movement.

  • i need no.4 =\ thats the best one, The ending ... just.... chilling... =]

  • Please upload Mvt 4!

  • Wonderful, but I still prefer Jackie's recording of Elgar's violin concerto with Sir John Barbarolli. He got just that little bit extra out of her and the orchestra.

  • violin concerto?

  • Oops, what on earth made me write "violin"... of course I mean Cello, and thankyou for pointing out my stupid mistake, regards Karita

  • you're welcome :)

  • my name is that go on mine at the first and leave a comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have nothing only 50 vives

  • Hey, don't go trying to steal Jackie for Jesus.

  • Love Jacqueline where is No.4?

  • hey, wheres the fourth movement? I knew there was something wrong when I saw that there wasn't a fourth movement on your video listings.

  • I agree

  • we all witness GOD in Jacqueline du Pre... and his power.

    she is a dream that God has sent to the real world

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