Info:
Duration: 58’ 17”
Narrated by Christopher Nupen
Year of production: 2017
A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987.
The film contains archive footage shot during Jacqueline du Pré’s lifetime which captures some glorious and professionally filmed live performances. It also remembers both her personality and her music through the memories and tributes of her closest friends and colleagues including Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Toby Perlman, Fou Ts’ong, Zubin Mehta, William Pleeth, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hugh Maguire, Elizabeth Wilson, Cynthia Friend, Charles Beare, Suvi Grubb, Dr Len Selby and Clive Barda.
In the music she is accompanied by Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Gervase de Peyer, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Janet Baker The New Philharmonia Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
There is music by Beethoven, Eccles, Couperin, Clementi, Elgar, Brahms, Offenbach and Bruch.
The writer and director is Christopher Nupen who was close to Jacqueline du Pré for more than 20 years and made five films with her during her lifetime.
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