View basket “Organ and Clarinet (SACD)” has been added to your basket. Sea Pictures Op.37/Cello Conc. E Minor Op.85 Elgar/Baker/du Pré/Barbirolli SKU: ASD655 Barcode: ASD655 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Classical Label: Testament Released Date: 15th December 2006 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Janet Baker – Sea Pictures/ Sir John Barbirolli conducting London Symphony Orchestra Jacqueline Du Pre’s career lasted just 11 years, but within that space of time she achieved a reputation as one of the finest cellists of the twentieth century. Not long afer her debut in 1961, at the age of 16, she played the Elgar Cello Concerto in public for the first time with great success. In August 1965 she recorded the work for HMV. Her conductor was Sir John Barbirolli, a famous Elgar interpreter who as a young man had known the composer. Though Du Pre went on to make many other superlative recordings it is in the Elgar “Concerto”, and this recording, that she is most remembered. The work’s richly romantic, nostalgically autumnal mood is a fitting and appropriate memorial to an artist who performing career was cruelly cut short by a disease at the age of 42. In August 1965, Barbirolli made a second Elgar recording with another outstanding young artist, the mezzo-soprano Janet Baker, whose finely sung, imaginative interpretation of the beautiful song cycle “Sea Pictures” makes an ideal coupling for Du Pre’s performance. The famous LP is available in Testament’s audiophile reissue. Authentic analogue techniques have been employed in making transfers from the original recording, and high-quality 180 gram pressings have been made from virgin vinyl. The record is issued in a special limited collectors’ edition. Artist Elgar/Baker/du Pré/Barbirolli Genre Classical Label Testament Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Side One Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 Band 1 - 1st movement: Adagio - Moderato 2nd movement: Lento - Allegro molto Band 2 - 3rd movement: Adagio 4th movement: Allegro , ma non troppo Soloist: Jacqueline du Pré Side Two Sea Pictures, Op.37 Band 1 - Sea Slumber Song - poem by Roden Noel Band 2 - In Haven - poem by C. Alice Elgar Band 3 - Sabbath Morning at Sea - from a poem by Mrs. Browning Band 4 - Where Corals Lie - poem by Dr. Richard Garnett Band 5 - The Swimmer - from a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon Soloist: Dame Janet Baker (Contralto) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Classical View Product Quick View Leopold Stokowski Rhapsodies Classical | Analogue Productions | 180g, 1LP Released 8th September 2015 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leopold Stokowski Rhapsodies £45.00 Genre: Classical Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPC2471 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 8th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maurizio Pollini Debussy: Préludes Books 1 & 2 Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 2LP Released 23rd November 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Maurizio Pollini Debussy: Préludes Books 1 & 2 £25.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4835899 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 23rd November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jean-Michel Blais aubades Classical | Mercury KX | 1LP Released 4th February 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jean-Michel Blais aubades £22.00 Genre: Classical Label: Mercury KX SKU: 3599821 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th February 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Martha Argerich CHOPIN Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 5LP Released 7th May 2021 £86.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martha Argerich CHOPIN £86.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4860015 Formats: 5LP Released Date: 7th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 21 Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th August 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 21 £19.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4796330 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stokowski And Wagner Symphony Of The Air Chorus Classical | Analogue Productions | 180g, 1LP Released 31st July 2020 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stokowski And Wagner Symphony Of The Air Chorus £45.00 Genre: Classical Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPC2555 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 31st July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Carlo Cossutta, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Original Source Series) Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th August 2023 £43.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Carlo Cossutta, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Original Source Series) £43.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4864511 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lang Lang In Paris Classical | Sony Classical | 180g, 2LP Released 15th March 2016 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lang Lang In Paris £26.00 Genre: Classical Label: Sony Classical SKU: AMWS26019 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 15th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View María Dueńas Beethoven and Beyond Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 2LP Released 9th June 2023 £35.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders María Dueńas Beethoven and Beyond £35.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4863513 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 9th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Walter Hendl with Chicago Symphony Prokofieff: Concerto No. 3 / MacDowell:Concerto No. 2/ Van Cliburn Classical | Analogue Productions | 1LP, 200g Released 13th March 2020 £38.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Walter Hendl with Chicago Symphony Prokofieff: Concerto No. 3 / MacDowell:Concerto No. 2/ Van Cliburn £38.00 Genre: Classical Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPC2507 Formats: 1LP, 200g Released Date: 13th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Classical Start again
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