One of my favourite live recordings of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is taken from the 1951 ... loved – though to my mind excessively heated – remake with Jacqueline du Pre, though some readers will of ...

At the age of 17 she astonished audiences and critics with her fiery performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a work that has remained synonymous with her name ever since. Du Pré embarked on a ...

Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.