Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy

A unique insight into Jacqueline du Pré's innate talent as a cellist from esteemed musicians, like Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta and her husband, Daniel Barenboim. In between rehearsals at London's Abbey Road Studios, we see her at the piano, then in rehearsal playing a Brahms cello sonata. On the concert platform, she performs a cello concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns.

In the summer of 1969, five young stars of the classical music industry came together to perform Schubert's Trout Quintet at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. It was a momentous occasion in the history of music and for Jacqueline du Pré, shortly before she began to experience the telling symptoms of multiple sclerosis.