The Unparalleled Gifts of Western Civilization: Jacqueline du Pré Dvořák Cello Concerto

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Something to be thankful for …. the unparalleled gifts of Western Civilization. I thought readers might enjoy hearing what is on my turntable whilst I work.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Jacqueline du Pré – Dvořák Cello Concerto – London Symphony Orchestra cond. Daniel Barenboim

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Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by Antonín Dvořák

A recently re-discovered recording of a concert held in tribute to the people of Czechoslovakia days after the Soviet Union invaded. Filmed live at the Royal Albert Hall in September 1968.

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Elgar!

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already gone out of fashion with the concert-going public. In contrast with Elgar’s earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative and elegiac.

The first performance was a debacle because Elgar and the performers had been deprived of adequate rehearsal time. The work did not achieve wide popularity until the 1960s, when a recording by Jacqueline du Pré caught the public imagination and became a classical best-seller.

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Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
1 year ago

Joe Biden best defined by being compared to Hitler or Vladimir Lenin it’s only a matter of conjecture.
Nevertheless, whichever dictator “Big Brother Biden” is more fitting to describe Joe Biden, he is, in essence, a tyrant. Biden even has political prisoners from the January 6, 2021, pro-Trump patriot rally.
It’s a Biden gulag for those patriots who are treated just as terrible as in the old Soviet political prisons or the twenty-first century political prisons in Red China under the dictatorship of Xi Jinping.
Therefore, it’s no wonder that Joe Biden has policies that always favor Communist China because must admire that system of tyranny and strives to use it as a model for the American government.
Biden in that spite and malice- filled rant that he called a “speech” condemned “political violence.” Biden was speaking .as disingenuous as he always is. For his being against political violence, he a double standard. of allowing violent actions of Marxist of Communist organizations and violent jihadists engaging in Islamic terrorism get off the hook, “scot -free.”
To elaborate on this statement, when he spoke about “political violence” Biden was speaking about the mayhem that occurred on January 6, 2021, Biden even said that, and slanderously called the American patriots” insurrectionists” who had been framed in that leftist set up, but he said nothing about the most extreme horrendous political violence carried out, repeatedly in different cities by the violent lawless criminal and malicious and even, at times, murderous Marxist, of Antifa and BLM.
Furthermore, Biden didn’t condemn the extreme political /religious violence, many times over, by Muslim terrorists. As one of the major characters in Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini had, rightly, declared, “All Islam is politics.” [1]
In addition, Biden completely failed to condemn all violence, not only “political violence.”
For the horrible reality is the there is much non-political violence ranging from bands of Criminal gangs, as the most heinous and evil MS-13 to domestic home violence.
That speech delivered by Joe Biden was terrible and so is he.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 332

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
1 year ago

The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright terrible.
For Biden is the obedient “lap dog” and “useful idiot’ as was tool and stooges of the Communist President of China, Xi Jinping. Therefore, Biden will give only “lip service” in condemning Communist China is it invaded Taiwan but will do absolutely nothing, at all, to stop it or aid Taiwan.

walter Sieruk
walter Sieruk
1 year ago

Joe Biden and Anthony Fauci keep on trying to push that vaccine on the people of American military even though many people have had terrible side effects have been the result of the vaccine. In some cases, a person who was injected that that vaccine had even died

As for the best way to handle the terrible problem of the coronavirus.

Be it by gaining natural hard immunity or by the COVID -19 vaccine.

Well one ancient wise man, Aristotle, had written “If one way be better than another, we may be sure that it’s nature’s way.”

Furthermore. A senior scholar of the Brownstone Institute, David Bell and is a public health physician based in the US wrote “It’s no biological surprise that immunity gained from whole-virus respiratory tract infections reduces the severity more effectively than injection with spike- protein or it’s mRNA precursors.” [1]

Furthermore, two appropriate terms for the coronavirus would be the “China virus” of the “Wuhan virus.”

If this isn’t bad enough Joe Biden and Anthony Fauci have both worked with Red China in an effort to hide the awful truth from all the people.

Fauci and Biden are horrendously awful men.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago
Reply to  walter Sieruk

Walter suck . You need to stay on the subject and stop writing books with all of your BS that no one wishes to read.

Stanley
Stanley
1 year ago
Reply to  walter Sieruk

They are puppets of Satan

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

She is Awesome. Have not heard her or about her before.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

She passed away years ago, but, yes, she was awesome.

Joe Lablanc
Joe Lablanc
1 year ago

Dvorak and Elgar played by an excellent cellist; I’m impressed. Now add some Mahler to your repertoire and you’ll find yourself singing along to the music, especially Mahler’s first!

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
1 year ago

Get up in the morning within relative freedom and this is what you hear. Get up in the morning under islam and you’ll only hear the screams of the slaughtered.

Joe Lablanc
Joe Lablanc
1 year ago
Reply to  Pray Hard

Don’t forget the irritating Addhan (the Moslem call to prayer) that Obama called the sweetest sound in the world).

Joy Olender
Joy Olender
1 year ago
Reply to  Joe Lablanc

Beautiful Jacqueline and her golden hands, free to pass her amazing gifts on to the listening world! Only those who have ears to hear will hear. Thank you, Pamela!

Indigo Red
Indigo Red
1 year ago

Thank you, Pam. I have greatly missed the regular moments of beauty with you. The movies, music, art, time spent at the beach in the afternoon sun, and cocktails in tony eateries. It’s easy to lose sight of how wonderful our lives truly are.

UnderzogD
Underzog
1 year ago

Thank you for showing this. Wasn’t she the wife of Daniel Barenbohm?

Joy Brower
Joy Brower
1 year ago

I had heard a recording of Jacquelin Du Pre playing this beautiful cello concerto, but I had never seen a video, so thank you SO much for posting this memorable – indeed, historical! – performance!! A real treat!!

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
1 year ago

Why does Western civilization – WC – hate itself so much? I do not understand why this indoctrination has been so successful especially in the USA. When compared to other civilizations the West especially the USA has gone to great lengths to remedy many problems within. No civilization is perfect and there are many imperfections in any culture but our enemies have succeeded in the self-hatred campaign. What they want to replace WC with is dangerous and must be resisted at all costs.

pfwag
pfwag
1 year ago

That’s just ONE of The Unparalleled Gifts of Western Civilization.

Michael McCallion Sr
Michael McCallion Sr
1 year ago

The following comment is in reference to the threats of imprisonment in Arizona if the Election Surpervisors – did not Certify – the now still under doubt and suspicion. MikeSr

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