Jacqueline Du Pre

R. Strauss: Don Quixote Jacqueline Du Pre

The last one to be released separately, this LP comes from the 5xLP boxset made for the 30th anniversary of death of Jacqueline du Pré in Autumn 2017. This album was originally supposed to be recorded by Jacqueline du Pré with Otto Klemperer, but after only one day of recording the conductor withdrew from it and from the concerts that were planned a few days later. Klemperer was promptly replaced by Sir Adrian Boult for the concerts at the Royal Festival Hall and Boult and du Pré made a complete performance at Abbey Road Studios which was recorded. As wrote Andrew Keener, who edited and remastered this album for the 1st release in 1995 (on CD): "Judging by sundry noises (pencils dropping, even talking at one point), Boult's single take was probably made with the recording light off and it may have been simply a whim to

switch on the recorder." To remedy "the inevitable handful of significant flaws and a missing first bar (caused by a belatedly switched-on recorder)" Keener made a few short patches from the Klemperer takes, and the result is incredible. Full story to read in the liner notes. A unique occasion to hear Jacqueline du Pré in a masterpiece for cello music from the XXth Century.