Inhalt: What is it that makes some artists live longer and brighter in the memory? In Jacqueline du Pré's case, she not only surprised and delighted us with her music, she had ways of touching the heart that are given to very, very few but there is even more to it than that. Nobody really knows the answer to that question, but while you cannot explain it you can feel it and you can film it. That is what we have done. Our DVD-Video contains both a portrait film of Jacqueline du Pré and complete performances of the Elgar cello concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim (a performance that has already passed into legend) and Beethoven's Ghost Trio which she plays with Daniel Barenboim and Pinchas Zukerman. "The Ghost" was described by the French opera and film director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle as the most successful translation of musical performance onto the screen that he had ever seen. "Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto" Jacqueline du Pré caught the public imagination when she was still in her teens, partly because she had a very unusual and elevated relationship with the Elgar cello Concerto. For critics and public alike, her performances focused new attention on the inherent pathos in Elgar's melancholy masterpiece and had an emotional quality that has never been matched by anyone else. She played it first at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 21 March 1962 when she was just seventeen years old. On the following morning, Neville Cardus, one of England's most distinguished writers on music, described the work in The Guardian as, "A swan-song of rare and vanishing beauty", and he reviewed her performance of it in such strong and poetic terms as any seventeen year old has ever received from a senior critic. He concluded his review with these words: "Those actually present were witness, on the first day of spring, to an early blossoming in Miss du Prés playing, and such a beautiful blossoming as this year, or any other year, is likely to know for a long time to come. "In the