JACQUELINE DU PRE, ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, ORIGINAL 1965 UK HMV STEREO LP, ASD 655

Jacqueline Du Pré / Sir John Barbirolli / LSO – Elgar, Cello Concerto
Janet Baker / Sir John Barbirolli / LSO – Elgar, Sea Pictures
Jacqueline Du Pre's career lasted just 11 years, but within that space of time she achieved a reputation as one of the finest cellists of the twentieth century. Not long afer her debut in 1961, at the age of 16, she played the Elgar Cello Concerto in public for the first time with great success. In August 1965 she recorded the work for HMV. Her conductor was Sir John Barbirolli, a famous Elgar interpreter who as a young man had known the composer. Though Du Pre went on to make many other superlative recordings it is in the Elgar "Concerto", and this recording, that she is most remembered. The work's richly romantic, nostalgically autumnal mood is a fitting and appropriate memorial to an artist who performing career was cruelly cut short by a disease at the age of 42.
Side One: Concerto In E Minor, Op. 85: 1st Movement: Adagio - Moderato; 2nd Movement: Lento - Allegro Molto; 3rd Movement: Adagio; 4th Movement: Allegro, Ma Non Troppo.
Side Two: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: Sea Slumber Song; In Haven (Capri); Sabbath Morning At The Sea; Where Corals Lie; The Swimmer.
The album is on HMV Records, ASD 655. Matrix side one: 2YEA 1143-1G   1   RA (stamped). Matrix side two: 2YEA 1144-2G   1   RG (stamped).
Released in 1965. UK pressing. Stereo.
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Condition: (as Record Collector’s grading system)
Vinyl side 1: very good (looks very clean but plays with the very odd light click/light background crackle here and there but certainly nothing that spoils your enjoyment of the music, plays with no jumps or sticks).
Vinyl side 2: very good (looks very clean but plays with the very odd light click/light background crackle here and there but certainly nothing that spoils your enjoyment of the music, plays with no jumps or sticks).
Cover (front laminated, flip-back): very good (a few small light laminate creases, some light aging mainly around the edges, “stereophonic” sticker on front).
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