GREAT RECORDINGS phase 13

ELGAR: CELLO CONCERTO,
SEA PICTURES
& OVERTURE: COCKAIGNE
Jacqueline du Pré & Janet Baker
London Symphony Orchestra
& Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

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'In every sense these are classic performances that can never be replaced. The recording of the Concerto is a most moving example of really beautiful playing and interpretation. And the passion, intensity and sheer beauty of Janet Baker's performance translates Sea Pictures into something far greater than had been appreciated before.' (Gramophone)

Award: Gramophone, UK

Like Victor de Sabata's recording of Puccini's Tosca, which was reissued as the 100th title in this series of Great Recordings, the Elgar LP featuring Jacqueline du Pré, Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli, first issued in 1965, is another classic of the gramophone.

Coupled for the first time with Barbirolli's account of Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, the LP is presented here as the 150th and final reissue in the Great Recordings series. It offers supreme music-making by three of the best-loved artists of the last century.

Though Jacqueline du Pré's dazzling international career was tragically cut short by illness in 1973 when she was only 28, the legacy of her recordings of most of the major works in the cello repertoire has ensured that her reputation as one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century is secure.