Sir John Barbirolli

Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard

There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.

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