Dvořák: Cello Concerto, du Pré (CD)

“Jackie was always the most exciting cellist,” Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pré’s fellow cellist, has said. “It would be hard to think of another that took as many risks as she did . . . always for expressive reasons. There is no other artist who can transfer that sense of excitement [to a recording].” Here, with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, du Pré performs perhaps the most widely loved of all cello concertos, Dvořák’s lyrical and stirring epic.

Dvořák Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
Jacqueline du Pré cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1970, Medinah Temple, Chicago

Dvořák Silent Woods for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68
Jacqueline du Pré cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1970, Medinah Temple, Chicago

Discs: 1
Record Label: Warner Classics
Release Date: October 6, 2017