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| The Complete EMI Recordings | 
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| Creators: Jacqueline Du Pre, William Pleeth, Gervase De Peyer, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Luigi Boccherini, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Max Bruch, Frederic Chopin, Francois Couperin, Frederick Delius, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Manuel De Falla, Gabriel Faure, Cesar Franck, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Edouard Lalo
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8823
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 17
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.2 x 2.1
EAN: 5099950416721
ASIN: B000V9P4YM
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat, WoO.38 - I. Allegro moderato | | • | Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat, WoO.38 - II. Scherzo: Allegro, ma non troppo & Trio | | • | Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat, WoO.38 - III. Finale: Presto | | • | Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat, Op. 11 - I. Allegro con brio | | • | Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat, Op. 11 - II. Adagio | | • | Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat, Op. 11 - III. Tema: 'Pria ch'io l'impregno (Allegretto) | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata #1 in F, Op. 5 #1 - I. Adagio sostenuto | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata #1 in F, Op. 5 #1 - II. Allegro | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata #1 in F, Op. 5 #1 - III. Allegro vivace | | • | F. Couperin: Les Gouts- Reunis - Treizieme Concert a deux instruments a l'unisson - I. Prelude | | • | F. Couperin: Les Gouts- Reunis - Treizieme Concert a deux instruments a l'unisson - II. Air | | • | F. Couperin: Les Gouts- Reunis - Treizieme Concert a deux instruments a l'unisson - III. Sarabande | | • | F. Couperin: Les Gouts- Reunis - Treizieme Concert a deux instruments a l'unisson - IV. Chaconne legere | | • | F. Couperin: Les Gouts- Reunis - Treizieme Concert a deux instruments a l'unisson - V. Le Je-ne-scay-quoy (Gayement) | | • | Handel: Sonata in G minor HWV287 - I. Grave | | • | Handel: Sonata in G minor HWV287 - II. Allegro | | • | Handel: Sonata in G minor HWV287 - III. Sarabande | | • | Handel: Sonata in G minor HWV287 - IV. Allegro CD 6 |
Disc 2
| • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Introduction: Don Quixote Sinks into Madness | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Theme: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation I: The Adventure with the Windmills | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation II: The Battle with the Sheep | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation III: Discourse between Knight and Squire | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation IV: The Adventure with the Pilgrims | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation V: The Knight's Vigil | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation VI: The Meeting with Dulcinea | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation VII: The Ride through the Air | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation VIII: The Voyage in the Enchanted Boat | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation IX The Combat with the Two Magicians | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Variation X: The Defeat of Don Quixote | | • | Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35- Finale: Don Quixote's Death | | • | Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor- I. Prelude: Lento - Allegro maestoso | | • | Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor- II. Intermezzo: Andantino con moto | | • | Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor- III. Introduction: Andante - Allegro vivace |
Disc 3
| • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.38- I. Allegro non troppo | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.38- II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto & Trio | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.38- III. Allegro | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- I. Allegro vivace | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- II. Adagio affettuoso | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- III. Allegro passionato | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- IV. Allegro molto | | • | Boccherini: Cello Concerto No.9 in B Flat G.482- I. Allegro moderato - Cadenza - Tempo I | | • | Boccherini: Cello Concerto No.9 in B Flat G.482- II. Adagio non troppo | | • | Boccherini: Cello Concerto No.9 in B Flat G.482- III. Rondo: Allegro - Cadenza - Tempo I |
Disc 4
| • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.3 in A, Op.69- I. Allegro, ma non troppo | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.3 in A, Op.69- II. Scherzo: Allegro molto | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.3 in A, Op.69- III. Adagio cantabile | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.3 in A, Op.69- IV. Allegro vivace | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.5 in D, Op.102 No.2- I. Allegro con brio | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.5 in D, Op.102 No.2- II. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto | | • | Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.5 in D, Op.102 No.2- III. Allegro - Allegro fugato | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole- El pano moruno | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole- Asturiana | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole- Jota | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole- Nana | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole- Cancion | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole- Polo |
Disc 5
| • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.68- I. Allegro non troppo | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.68- II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto & Trio | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.68- III. Allegro | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- I. Allegro vivace | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- II. Adagio affettuoso | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- III. Allegro passionato | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op. 99- IV. Allegro molto | | • | Bruch: Kol Nidrei Op.47 |
Disc 6
| • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F, Op.99- I. Allegro vivace | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F, Op.99- II. Adagio affettuoso | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F, Op.99- III. Allegro passionato | | • | Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F, Op.99- IV. Allegro molto | | • | Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50- I. Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai - Allegro giusto | | • | Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50- II. Teme con variazioni |
Disc 7
| • | Paradis arr. Dushkin: Sicilienne | | • | Schumann: Fantasiestuecke, Op.73- I. Zart und mit Ausdruck | | • | Schumann: Fantasiestuecke, Op.73- II. Lebhaft, leicht - Coda: Nach und nach ruhiger | | • | Schumann: Fantasiestuecke, Op.73- III. Rasch und mit Feuer - Coda: Schneller | | • | Mendelssohn: Song without Words in D, Op.109 | | • | Faure: Elegie in C minor, Op.24 | | • | Bach: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C, BWV564 - Adagio | | • | Saint-Saens: Carnaval des animaux - Le cynge | | • | Falla arr. Maurice Marechal: Suite populaire espagnole - Jota | | • | Britten: Cello Sonata in C, Op.65- II. Scherzo: Pizzicato | | • | Britten: Cello Sonata in C, Op.65- IV. Marcia | | • | Paradis arr. Dushkin: Sicilienne | | • | Schumann: Fantasiestuecke, Op.73 |
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| Customer Reviews:
Bad times for the world, but good times for the admirers of Jacqueline Du Pre October 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
These are bad times for the world at large - as I write, the US financial system is threatening a giant systemic collapse, the US are mired in Irak and Afghanistan, with Russia occupying half of Georgia a new Cold War is looming large, Chinese babies are dying by the hundreds from poisoned milk, Iran and Korea won't be stopped from becoming nuke, and Paris Hilton is off her medication again - but these are great times for the music lovers and buyers of CDs (are there many of these left?). Now EMI is releasing these gigantic boxes with the complete EMI recordings of such and such, and at prices so low they are tantamount to steals. This one cost me less than 3 dollars per CD, postage included, and it's even cheaper now on the marketplace, three months later. A complete Karajan is out (88 + 72 CDs in two boxes and I've just bought the first one for 1,70/CD), Oistrakh, Rostropovich, Richter, Marcelle Meyer (and that box adds non-EMI recordings as well, from Hispavox and Columbia), Yves Nat, and Cziffra is announced. What a boon!
More, of course, for those who, for whatever reasons, did NOT already purchase the individual issues or reissues whenever they appeared - which happens to be my case with Du Pre's CDs (choice will be more agonizing for Oistrakh and Cziffra). One possible reason is that Du Pre's choice of repertoire was a little too Catholic for my taste. Had she recorded, say, Bloch's Schelomo and Voice in the Wilderness or Kodaly's Solo Cello Sonata, those are probably CDs I'd already have in my collection. Her Elgar with Barbirolli is considered a benchmark recording - but unlike many I personally don't warm up too much for Elgar's Cello Concerto - and no offense to those who think otherwise. So the only one I had was the Brahms Sonatas with Barenboim.
Fact is, about all the material on this set had been issued or reissued earlier. I can now consider myself fortunate NOT to have bought the 1994 French EMI Introuvables 6-CD set, Les introuvables de Jacqueline du Pre, or earlier discs first released on EMI's mid-price Studio line, of which some found their way on "Introuvables", such as Jacqueline du Pre - Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Franck: Sonata in A / Barenboim, Beethoven: Cello Sonatas 3 & 5 with Stephen Bishop from 1965, Jacqueline du Pre - Her Early BBC Recordings Volume 1 ~ Bach, Falla, Britten / Luch, Kovacevich and Her Early BBC Recordings, Vol. 2 (early BBC recordings from 1962-5). Or again EMI's 1995 CD releasing for the first time the miraculously salvaged tapes of a recording session from 1968 of Strauss' Don Quixote begun under Klemperer and continued under Boult from 1968 (integral with the orchestra's applause at the end), and Lalo's Cello Concerto, recorded live in Cleveland with Barenboim in 1973, two compositions not hitherto in Du Pre's discography (Strauss: Don Quixote; Lalo: Cello Concerto, now on CD 12) or their 2-CD compilation released in 1996 in the UK, Jacqueline du Pre - a lasting inspiration, which had the small but valuable and rare encores now on CD 17. Even the alternative recording of Brahms' two Cello Sonatas with Barenboim, recorded in mono a few months before their official studio recording and used on Christopher Nupen's documentary on Du Pre, featured on CD 15, had been published by EMI in 2002 with the same coupling, Bruch's Kol Nidrei with orchestra, with Barenboim conducting the Israel Philharmonic (Brahms: Cello Sonatas; Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Jacqueline Du Pre).
Ultimately, judging from the copyright dates, the only items that seem to make their first appearance on CD with this set are the alternative recordings of Maria Theresia von Paradis' Sicilienne and Schumann's Fantasiestuecke op 73 with Gerald Moore, made on October 8 1963 (CD 17 tracks 12-15). If I understand the copyright indications, these are actually the recordings that were published on LP back then (on a 45 Single, HMV 7EP 7180, an info I retrieved on the Net) and it is earlier and unpublished takes, from July 16 1962, that have been previously issued on CD (CD 17 tracks 1-4). The liner notes are of no use whatsoever on all these matters. They consist of a short eulogy by the same Christopher Nupen who made the above-mentioned documentary of Du Pre.
I am also extraordinarily puzzled by the absence, on CD 5 on my set, of the Adagio and Allegro from Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonata BWV 1028. That was one of Du Pre's first recordings, made in 1962 with harpsichordist Ronald Kinloch Anderson. My puzzlement is even greater as, while it is not featured on the set's track listing on EMI Classics website, it is indeed announced as part of that set on many websites I've checked, along with an alternative recording of Beethoven's 1st Cello Sonata with Barenboim, made in studio in 1971 and which should have been on CD 11 (and who is responsible for the botched track listing on the present entry, I wonder). So what's the deal here? Anyway, as it stands, "complete" this set is not quite.
I won't enter the fray of interpretive comments. There are those who consider these recordings, or some of them, as "definitive", and some who don't. In my case, as I mentioned, Du Pre's repertoire isn't usually the one I am most familiar with. Suffice to say that, whatever one's opinion on her interpretations, they always belong to the "significant" ones, those one needs to have heard and refer to when one has a keen interest in the composition involved.
For that compilation EMI has used whatever remastering they had for their last CD reissue (an info retrieved on EMI Classics website), which means that those with the earlier reissues will find no sonic improvement here. Sonics are variable of course. There is some saturation in the climaxes of Dvorak's Concerto, but I've read that this was always the case. The early BBC recordings as well as those from the film (CD 15) sound distant and hollow. The Beethoven Cello Sonatas were recorded live at the 1970 Edinburgh festival, which had its share of coughers. No big deal in view of the set's significance - and price.
Oh - and the 15-CD Perlman edition (The Perlman Edition (Box Set)) is NOT a complete EMI recordings. So I'll just wait until the economy turns around. Now that's going to take quite some time.
A Fitting Memorial to a Great Artist -- and an Astonishing Bargain August 19, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
That Jacqueline du Pre was a great musician, as well as an extraordinarily courageous human being, is beyond dispute. Though her recorded legacy, most of which is included in this inexpensive box, tends to be uneven, given the circumstances of a career tragically cut short by a debilitating illness, one must still regard every track as precious.
There are many first-rate performances included here. Her ripely expressive Elgar concerto with Barbirolli is an all-time "classic of the gramophone" (as they would put it in the UK), and many of the other concertante works are given splendidly passionate, deeply expressive treatment by this youthful artist. One might wish for a less fulsome tone in the Haydn, Boccherini-Gruetzmacher and Monn concerti (listeners concerned for period manners may be put off by Du Pre's heavily romanticized readings), but she triumphs in the Schumann and gives a remarkably involving, if wayward, account of the Dvorak. She is overparted as Strauss's Don Quixote--one of her less successful ventures--but makes ample amends in an elegant live performance of the Lalo Concerto and a fragrantly earthy rendition of the Delius.
It could be argued that Du Pre's finest legacy remains in the field of chamber music, where she consistently engaged in intimate, soulful and playful conversation with some of her closest companions (as well as husband-to-be Daniel Barenboim). Included here is a veritable treasure trove of trios and sonatas, including stunning live performances of the Beethoven cello sonatas with Barenboim, leaner and more concentrated studio versions of Sonatas 3 & 5 with Stephen Bishop Kovacevich, and a set of Beethoven trios (featuring Zukerman and Barenboim) performed with youthful ardor and gusto, If I am less impressed by her Bach suites 1 & 2 (recorded very early in her career), I found the Handel sonatas quite charming. I was bowled over by the Tchaikovsky trio (with the same personnel as the Beethoven), the Chopin Cello Sonata and the Franck Violin Sonata in transcription (all with Barenboim in youthfully combustible form). Indeed, this is the only version of the Chopin I have heard which convinces me that it belongs in the canon of great chamber works for cello. Her Brahms sonatas (both live and studio) are certainly involving, if at times overheated. It is particularly gratifying to hear Du Pre in some spikier twentieth-century literature, including Britten and de Falla. The shorter, "encore" pieces, though mostly insubstantial, are hugely enjoyable.
In sum, then, this box offers the collector a unique opportunity survey the career of one of the Twentieth Century's most remarkable musical personalities. Despite vicissitudes of live performance (a few slips here and there) and recording (ranging from cloudy to vivid), I recommend this amazingly inexpensive set with the utmost enthusiasm. If, perchance, there are any listeners who have not yet encountered the vibrant artistry of Jacqueline Du Pre, here is your chance to get acquainted--in a rather big way. Rest assured: you won't regret the investment of time and treasure.
Passion on strings July 21, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you appreciate string instruments of any kind, you need this set. She is unequaled. Especially memorable is her playing on Beethoven's 'Ghost' piano trio, with Pinchas Zuckerman and Daniel Barenboim. You can also see that performance on the 'Remembering Jacqueline Du Pre' DVD.
 Great value from a first class artist March 18, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Wow! what a bargain. Seventeen discs (about 14 of which are excellent) for around $50 on a major label. All of the concertos are terrific, including her unequaled calling card, the Elgar. The Dvorak & Schumann, while perhaps not as good as Casals or Rostropovich, are still quite appealing. The Haydn and Boccherini are top notch performances, as well as the Beethoven & Brahms sonatas with Barenboim. Also included is an under-rated set of Beethoven's piano trios (including the variations) with Barenboim and Zukerman. The only subpar performances in the set are the Franck and Chopin sonatas. It is clear she is struggling with her painful illness (M.S.), which would soon force her into retirement and a tragically early death. All in all, this is a stunning set of stellar recordings showcasing the youthful exhuberance of a highly gifted artist(s). Plus, I got it for $30 at a local store due to torn shrink wrap, which made it an even better bargain. 4 1/2 stars
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