Culture: A True Labour of Love ; Symphony Hall Is the Venue for a Birthday Tribute to the Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre Who Would Have Been 60 On Wednesday. The Event Features Two of Today's Leading British Cellists, Raphael Wallfisch and Julian Lloyd Webber, Who Share Their Recollections of Her with Terry Grimley and Christopher Morley

Birmingham Post › January 24, 2005

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Raphael Wallfisch, a few years Jacqueline du Pre's junior, is the brains behind a two-day celebration of the tragically short life of this great cellist, who would have been 60 on Wednesday, writes Christopher Morley.

The day after a marathon evening at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall he comes to Symphony Hall for a concert with William Boughton's English Symphony Orchestra, when he plays both the great Elgar Concerto as well as the Beethoven Triple. Two concertos in the same programme might be seen by some as gruelling.

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Culture: A True Labour of Love ; Symphony Hall Is the Venue for a Birthday Tribute to the Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre Who Would Have Been 60 On Wednesday. The Event Features Two of Today's Leading British Cellists, Raphael Wallfisch and Julian Lloyd Webber, Who Share Their Recollections of Her with Terry Grimley and Christopher Morley

'I am actually playing the entire Beethoven Sonatas and Variations at the QEH, in part one of the tribute to Jacqueline du Pre, which will be broadcast live on Radio 3, so I am quite used to extended concerts!

'The Beethoven Triple Concerto is one of the most joyous and optim...

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