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Music : Elgar: Cello Concerto; 'Enigma' Variations |
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from: Sony
List Price: $9.98Amazon.com's Price: $8.99 You Save: $0.99 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969276327
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Sales Rank: 9083
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- I. Adagio. Moderato
- II. Lento. Allegro molto
- III. Adagio
- IV. Allegro. Moderato. Allegro ma non troppo
- Theme. Andante
- Var. I. (C.A.E.). L'istesso tempo
- Var. II. (H.D.S.-P.). Allegro
- Var. III. (R.B.T.). Allegretto
- Var. IV. (W.M.B.). Allegro di molto
- Var. V. (R.P.A.). Moderato
- Var. VI. (Ysobel). Andantino
- Var. VII. (Troyte). Presto
- Var. VIII. (W.N.). Allegretto
- Var. IX. (Nimrod). Adagio
- Var. X. Intermezzo (Dorabella). Allegretto
- Var. XI. (G.R.S.). Allegro di molto
- Var. XII. (B.G.N.). Andante
- Var. XIII. Romanza (***). Moderato
- Var. XIV. Finale (E.D.U.). Allegro
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Rating: - EXCELLENCE !!
What else can be said about such an enormous performer this very young woman was? One can only make synthesis: integrity, honesty, the direct expression of a profound vision of human drama. She was not a common performer, she really was a gifted one, but this must be kept in second place. A crucial distinction must be done before that: this musician, like some very little others, is the case of a very elevated and cultured person, that also happens to play an instrument. Her sensitivity is even encreased ... Read More
Rating: - All good- Elgar the way it should be played.
All good. Elgar the way it should be played- plenty of emotion. Late romanticism should be played from the heart- almost to the extreme of 'haming it up'. The tears will roll, the joy of laughter is obvious- its fantastic. I wish today's performers were brave enough to let their hair down sufficiently when playing music from this era.
Rating: - A word about DuPre and the 'Elgar'
Why has one piece of music here, the Elgar Cello Concerto played by Jacqueline DuPre become so legendary?
Of course it is the music itself. It has an overpowerful haunting deeply hypnotic feeling. Elgar wrote it after his recovery from a serious illness towards the end of the First War, and his thoughts were certainly on the suffering of life, and the inevitability of death.
DuPre brings to the piece not only her great mastery as cellist, but some deeper element of feeling. There is in the ... Read More
Rating: - I really feel it's inappropriate...
...for me to review this recording. These are for me at least two special works. The Elgar Cello Concerto has been described as "the final epitaph to the romantic movement" and I wouldn't disagree with that. Who could know that one of very young performers of this piece, Jacqueline du Pré, was herself to fall victim to a crippling disease not long after this recording? EVERYTHING about this recording is superb. It's hardly surprising that few today will dare to rerecord it. I don't want to say more.
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Rating:  - Buy it for the Cello Concerto, forget the rest
The Elgar Cello Concerto is performed wonderfully here--just magic. The legendary team of Barenboim and Du Pre plus her famous way with this piece are known to all classical music lovers.
Barenboim alone as a conductor is another matter. I've never cared for his willful, sometimes even goofy performances, and the other Elgar pieces he conducts on this disc show him to be at his irritating worst. If you want to hear inspired, noble performances of the Pomp & Circumstance Marches and the Enigma ... Read More
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