Remembering Jacqueline du Pré | by AllegroFilms

Click here for "The Trout", performed by Du Pré, Perlman, Barenboim, Mehta & Zukerman: https://youtu.be/b8-H0r0iL6Q Subscribe to the channel for more content: https://goo.gl/GLSuto Buy the DVD here: http://www.allegrofilms.com/films/ On the 26th of January, in 1995, Jacqueline du Pré should have celebrated her 50th birthday. But her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, when she was 28 years old and she died in 1987, at the age of 42. She was thought of as a golden girl, a beautiful young woman with a super abundant talent, a smiling face and a winning combination in her personality of shyness and modesty, allied to ferocious determination and an incorruptible honesty both in her life and in her music. The popular image was true to her, but it did not tell the whole story. The sad truth is that this glorious talent fell silent too soon. Her success during her lifetime could hardly have been greater, but it has taken the world a long time to open its heart completely and without qualification. The popular idea of the girl with an exuberant talent should, in time, have developed into the deserved image of the truly great artist, one of the greatest cello-talent of our century and one of the finest performing musicians that England as ever produced, because she was already just exactly that. An Allegro film by Christopher Nupen