Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre

Starring:Jacqueline Du Pre
Studio: EMI Classics
Product Type: DVD

Description

Jacqueline Du Pre was an artist with an exuberant personality and seemingly infinite talent who in her youth was recognized as one of the finest cellists of the century. The film Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre celebrates this extraordinary artist through footage that is at once inspiring and intimately revealing. You can see the musician her friends knew and her spontaneous and natural response to music. Directed by Christopher Nupen, Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre is now available on DVD for the first time.

Customer Reviews:

Wait for this to be reissued on the BBC/Opus Arte label.......2005-04-05

I don't know what possessed 2 different companies to release 2 titles of Jackie biographies simultaneously. Nonetheless being a Jackie fan, I purchased them both. With hindsight it would probably have been better to have stuck with just the other release, "Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait" (on BBC/Opus Arte). Not that this present documentary is worse in any way. Both films were shot by Christoper Nupen. And that's exactly what makes this release from EMI less desirable. Seeing how Christopher Nupen is supervising the release of all his documentaries under the BBC/Opus Arte label, it would have been better to wait for the release of this documentary under his imprimatur. Especially so when you consider the generous supplements included with the current Opus Arte release (155mins) and the total lack of extras on this one by EMI (56mins). In either case the restoration and remastering of the vintage material is exemplary. It helped that they were all shot on film and not video.

For the completist, Christopher Nupen shot 6 films featuring Jacqueline du Pre.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline du Pre and the Elgar Cello Concerto
Remembering Jacqueline du Pre
The Trout
The Ghost
Who was Jaqueline du Pre?

Both The Elgar Cello Concerto and The Ghost have been released as part of Opus Arte's "Jacqueline du Pre In Portrait".
Remembering Jacqueline du Pre is the sole feature in this present EMI release. The one fans are waiting impatiently for is the all-star recording of the Trout quintet. Hopefully Opus Arte will pair that with another du Pre documentary to make another double-bill feature. So if you're interested in getting this documentary, perhaps it'll be wiser to wait till it re-emerges under the BBC/Opus Arte label.

Update (Aug 2005): BBC/Opus Arte has released the Trout Quintet as part of a Franz Schubert double-bill DVD. It contains the 55min long documentary, "The Trout," which includes the rehearsals and complete live recording of Schubert's Trout Quintet made in 1969 with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, Jacqueline du Pre, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. It comes together with Nupen's 80min long, award-winning, 1994 documentary on the life and music of Franz Schubert, titled "The Greatest Love and The Greatest Sorrow."

It is Well Worth Your Time.......2005-03-25

We have two DVDs on this world famous English cellist available in Amazon, and even though they have much in common, each supplements the other. In case you want to have just one only and unless you prefer a fuller account of her musical upbringing or the details of the wake of her performing career, you should probably go by this one.

We have more music here in the sense that the excerpts are longer and often of better quality (e.g. in colour), giving us a fuller flavour of her playing and of the music. Her duets with her teacher are much longer and are as such much more interesting. More clips like "The Trout" are in colour and the sound are beautiful. Other than the cello, Du Pre also played a movement of Kuhlau Sonatina on the piano.

Many of the clips were not intended for commercial purposes. They were taken with much intimacy, affording us a much fuller picture of great performers off the stage. The running time might be short but they have offered the best of the musician Du Pre. It is well worth your time & investment.

Remembering Jacqueline Du Pré.......2003-11-29

Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre is a very touching film, a lasting tribute to her talent and a poignent reminder of what we have missed. I have only had the video a couple of days and I have watched it many times. I do wish that it could have been a little longer, however, I am sure it will leave a profound impression on those who view it.

Brilliant yet so tragic.......2003-09-03

It took me 4 months to get this VHS. I had never heard of Jacqueline du Pre until the movie. It was hard to understand such talent cut short at 28 years old with MS. Having just watched the Jerry Louis Telethon and having a form of MS myself (Myasthenia Gravis) which fortunatly is under control - I simply had to watch this remarkable "EMI Classic" again. I have to agree with other comments that it was to short - but remarkable non the less. Probably the greatest Cellist of the century or at any time it is a marvelous tribute. Needless to say I have the book and several CD's. I wish there was more to see.

Beguiling.......2002-11-14

Having just recently gotten hooked on Jackie, her music and her life, I found this video to be an amazing time capsule of some of her performances. My only complaint is that we aren't able to see complete performances of the pieces. Another reviewer mentioned the odd use of freeze frames, which I also found oddly disturbing. But the video is definitely worth it, if only to see her playing Iztak Stern's violin like a cello backstage and to see her working out a piece with William Pleeth. The footage of her and Barenboim is also outstanding, especially when we get to hear Jackie play a Clementi piece on the piano, Daniel at her side. The other complaint I have is that overall it's too short! I'd love to see more of Jackie and hear more interviews with her.

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