Jacqueline Du Pre – In Portrait DVD – Jacqueline Du Pre 

JACQUELINE DU PRE’s extraordinary career was cut cruelly short by illness in 1973 when she was only 28 years old. When she died 14 years later she remained as vibrant a figure in the public mind as she had been at the pinnacle of her career. Award winning film-maker Christopher Nupen succeeded in capturing the spirit of one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century in his classic documentary JACQUELINE DU PRE and the Elgar Cello Concerto (here restored and digitally re-mastered). This DVD portrait also offers Nupen’s film The Ghost featuring a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 5.Full Performances:Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85 – with Daniel Barenboim conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra.Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D major Op. 70 No. 1 (The Ghost) – with Daniel Barenboim (piano) and Pinchas Zukerman (violin).