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Last broadcast on Fri, 26 Sep 2008, 19:30 on BBC Four.
Synopsis
Director Christopher Nupen's intimate portrait of cellist Jacqueline du Pre and her legendary performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.
One of the finest musicians that Britain has ever produced, her career was cut tragically short by multiple sclerosis when she was 28 and she died in 1987 at the age of 41. The film begins with an account of her activities after the onset of her illness and includes, at her request, a re-edited version of the film which Nupen made with her in 1967. It outlines her childhood, her first steps in music, her studies with William Pleeth, her meteoric career and her meeting with and marriage to Daniel Barenboim.
It ends with the performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim, one that has already passed into legend.
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Fri 26 Sep 200819:30
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