Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy

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Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy

2025

1h 26m

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Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.

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19 members

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Yo-Yo Ma

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Jacqueline du Pré

Self (archive footage)

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Daniel Barenboim

Self

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Zubin Mehta

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Self

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Pinchas Zukerman

Self

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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Itzhak Perlman

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Evelyn Barbirolli

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Harold Shaw

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Leonard Selby

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Cynthia Friend

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Ruthann Cannings

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Katharine Worsley

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Norman Lebrecht

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Toby Perlman

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Fou Ts'ong

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Hugh Maguire

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Elizabeth Wilson

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