Wer kennt schon Max Bruch? Musikliebhaber der Extraklasse sicherlich schon. Als wir - meine Frau und ich - zum ersten mal Kol Nidrei hörten waren wir so ergriffen, dass wir in Tränen ausbrachen. Nach wie vor zählt dieses Stück für uns zu den Besten, die die Musikwelt hervorbrachte. Dank an Max Bruch, denn leider nur wenige kennen.
This wonderful cellist made every piece of music that she played sound like it was the first time you had heard it. To die so young and not to be able to play her beloved cello for many years before she died must have been heartbreaking for her. For me the greatest cellist ever and I have heard and seen many throughout my 65 years.
Touching thoughts. Unfortunately one cannot help thinking about the sad facts of her life as we hear her play. Even though I play the instrument, it is so hard to say who was the best. When I hear Rostropovich, there too I cannot but help to think about his long, but also heroic life.
@@jasongettinger6866 Rostropovich told her she was second only to him. May not sound gallant & we may not agree w him. Still, one hell of a compliment.
Beautiful music, beautifully played by the great cellist Jaqueline was! I am her fan and admirer forever. The world will never forget her! Elena Oria, Mexico City
Such beauty. Today, 21 March 2020, we’re at the beginning of the devastation Covid-19 will wreak upon the world. I’m not religious but I send good wishes to everyone in the struggle ahead. Stay strong.
Today on Yom Kippur, its very intense reality we are facing! Glad I have the world wide Jewish community to keep my faith strong to carry on the good work for change!
Today just some 40 hours after listening to Kol Nidre in many synagogues in North America on Zoom, this magnificent rendering brings tears to my eyes...you saw the devastation coming 6 months ago...
And exactly one year later, this is as beautiful as ever. I'm also not religious. As the world is starting to come out from the struggle (but not there yet) with the incredible work on vaccines and understanding, my hope is that enough people are responsible, we can work together, and we can all appreciate the unlikely gift that is life, encapsulated in artistry such as this.
If ever someone had to lay there hands on this wonderful instrument the Cello then it has to be Rostropovich and Jacqueline Du Pre! Such was her greatness she even had the honour to play with Rostropovich in Moscow! But yet for all her greatness her humility and simplicity said it all! Every single note she played was Divine no matter who the Composer was. This rendition of Lol Nidrei by Bruch is simply magnificent and what a soothing way Jacqueline plays enough to make even the stone heartened man weep! I am 69 years and I can recognize Jacqueline playing 100 miles away! Just listening to this genius playing makes my heart bleed and fills my eyes with uncontrollable tears! Tears that can never be wiped away! She and the great Rostropovich changed Cello playing for all future generations to come! Jacqueline you have left us devastated by your absence but your memory will live forever! My days are numbered but this much I do know that I will be carrying with me the music of Jacqueline to my final resting place!
I'm miles from home on Kol Nidré in a country in a different time zone, no local synagogue. What more moving way to mark the beginning of the fast than to engage with with this exquisite rendition performed by Jaqueline du Pré and reflect on life.
Me too. I have listened to this a zillion times it's soul-wrenching and totally beautiful. Oh Jackie...you are surely in heaven there is no alternative.....
I quite agree. I can here the cantor pleading to God to forgive all our Iniquities on this holy Day of Atonement for the Jewish people around the world.
Playing cello the talented young musician Jacqueline Du Pre awakens such deep feelings that tears appear in my eyes from resentment that Jacqueline left our world so early. Blessed will be the memory of the talented cellist Jacqueline Du Pre.
@@terryswain4585 - yes, including my christian trained soul, I am reminded of the Lord's prayer about asking the heavenly father for forgiveness of our sins and shortcomings just as we have forgiven others.
a beautiful musician who gave us a short time but gorgeous music. Raises mere mortals to the spiritual world of no words necessary. Always missed but eternal through her playing
Each Yom Kippur I spend withdrawing to consider my faiings in how I've hurt others, remembering to ask their forgiveness. The Bruch cello concerto by Jacqueline du Prés is my spiritual guide.
@@malcolmkottler9758 To be precise Bruch (not Jewish) called it an "Adagio on 2 Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra with Harp." [wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidrei_(Bruch).] Also from Wikipedia: "In his presentation, the melody entirely lost its original character. Bruch displayed a fine art, masterly technique and fantasy, but not Jewish sentiments. It is not a Jewish Kol-Nidre which Bruch composed. (Idelsohn, from Jewish Music in its Historic Development, 1929)" But it's gorgeous, and even holy. I wish you a sweet New Year.
@@malcolmkottler9758 Malcolm -- You needn't be so small. That Jacqueline du Pre creates the music that is Bruch's "Kol Nidrei," she painting an evocative musical canvas to the point where she has touched souls with pathos and promise -- so much so, that one hesitates to breathe long after her last diminuendo fades into its own echo -- THAT reflection might have been a more insightful contribution. (As well, it would have been much more congenial.) To "Correct simply because one can", constitutes nothing more than 'editing'." I cannot imagine that to have been your intention. I send my kind regards.
i will have it played for my wife's funeral - the orchestra presents the now distant drama of life, vs. the pleading, almost praying voice of the cello that represents human hope and dreams. The cello is so warm and full of confidence, an angelic voice.
In addition to it being instrumental music, it is also a song. And a story, and a prayer too. Especially since the heart of this piece is a sung prayer for Yom Kippur.
And to think I hated playing this song at 16...wow. Now it is one of my favorites, hands down. What a lovely rendition. The Kol Neidre makes my mum cry.
Kol Nidre brings back such sad memories of departed but at the same time it's so beautiful and Jacqueline's version is especially haunting and gorgeous. Rest in Peace Jacqueline; musical virtuoso. You left this world too soon. Thanks for posting
A magnificent interpretation, and an unforgettable theme which, regarless of your religion invites you to meditate quietly....and puts you in touch with your deepest self....
How deeply touching! Divine music, superb performance, moments of absolute perfection. With tears in my eyes I am transported to a place of sorrow and resolution, peace and beauty.
Jacqueline du Pre, all the passion and all the force and yet it all seems like it's simply quiet beauty spilling out. May she enchant the cellos and bows of every cellist with her luminescence
I feel like the musical spirits of Jacqueline du Pre and Josef Hassid have inhabited the Korean double bassist Mikyung Sung (here in an impassioned Kol Nidrei from a livestream earlier this year, accompanied by her mother): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VjGqcSGGPfU.html
Today is Yom Kippur and not being religious I always rely on Max Bruch's ' Kol Nidre for a time of spiritual reflection. Nobody has played it better than Jacqueline du Pre. Bruch's violin concerto is not exactly chopped liver either.
I can listen to this wonderful KOL NIDREI again and again. Specially Jacqueline du Pré gives this music a deep sensability. Hope that I may experience a yom kippur in my next life
unequivocally Jacqueline was the greatest cellist that ever lived. she had more passion in her little finger then any other cellist had in the whole body. I am speaking strictly about classical music now because as of the last 10 years a woman by the name of Jorane has come on the scene and she is fantastic in other musical genres. Jacqueline has stole my heart and has spoiled me for everyone else.
You might also like Mikyung Sung on the double bass. Her deep emotional expression seems to follow from du Pre and Josef Hassid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VjGqcSGGPfU.html (here playing Kol Nidre accompanied by her mother)
Quanta calidesa i perfecció en aquesta interpretació de la deesa Jacqueline.És una música d'arrels hebraiques que potser tocant-la Jacqueline li va dedicar al seu marit Daniel Barenboim.En l'eternitat siguis,genial Jscqueline.J.A.Vives. 1-12-2019.
Hers is the most heart rending, and soul searching of all, not better than other great performances yet on another plane, or should it be plain, entering a further landscape.
I didn't listen that song for a while...for a while... 4 damn years... I was so scared to listen this song again. I don't remember that, but I wrote this comment 4 years ago: "If you think, you find notes of your heart listen Kol Nidrei." (I know for sure, that I wanted to write - you didn't find) I found this a few minutes ago. Now I know what I meant to. It hurts me. It hurts me even now, like a 4 years ago. It hurts me, because this is my paint of my died notes of my heart. I'm crying like 4 years ago, with died notes of my heart inside each tear. My pure pain.. Kol Nidrei... Pierniku...
Few stories are as romantic, tragic and human as Jacqueline du Pré’s. Of course, our tendency to over-romanticize plays into how we see her today, but that should not take away from the astonishing power of her playing.
It's a knee jerk response to early death of loved artists. Amy Winehouse, Jean Paul Basquiat, Mozart and so on. Jaqueline du Pré said she didn't want to play cello all the time, didn't like being a star. I think she taught / mentored for some time after she stopped playing. It was desperately sad we lost her because we want more from her. And some people have to have a villain in every life story.
@@casteretpollux Sure, except with du Pre it was more intense. The cello as an instrument instrument and many of the pieces whe made her own are highly emotional, often tragic, much lengthier and meatier than any pop song, and people can invest a lot in listening to them them. She herself seemed ethereal, incandescent, and she was musical genius. So a tragic ending was kind of set up perfectly in peoples minds, like a tragic opera.
@@paulwary I agree with what you said about her as a performing artist but it in no way cuts across what I wrote, which if you check it out you'll find is factual. I don't think simplistic idealised narratives do justice to the complex and hard working human beings who are artists.
In the annals of concert music, there is not a clearer example of the tragic than the biography of Jacqueline Du Pre, whose indisputably God-given gift was snatched from her, and from us, at the moment of its fullest flowering. The few moments I was able to spend talking with her on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl have consequently taken on for me the attributes of a sacred epiphany, a direct experience of the miraculous nature of life. It is not necessary, however, to have met her to experience such an epiphany, as evidenced in these testimonials; it is instantly available to anyone taking the time to listen to her playing.
Much better than the chant as sung on Yom Kippur, by Cantor Davis, of Temple Sharrai Tefila, in Far Rockaway New York City. Decades ago. According to legend, Bruch asked a Jewish friend to take him to a service. It must have been Yom Kippur, as Max Bruch heard the chant. He was so impressed that he wrote this great work.
+Kyle Tomlinson There are many emotional undertones, nuances and great passion, there is solemnity and at the same time great beauty and joy. Joy is not always trumpets and fireworks, this is more subtle, I'm sorry you don't get it.
Barrington Salter I can see the interpretation and musicianship being "joyous", but it's a fairly sombre piece... I mean it's mostly minor and Kol Nidrei's historically are not supposed to be "joyous" events. Also, no need to say sorry that I don't get it.. Whatever _it_ is. I do not need to be pitied.
Kyle, I was not pitying you, and we know that the prayer is not a particularly joyous event, rather an affirmation of faith during religious persecution. However even music written for a solemn purpose can achieve joy through the music, for example the Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Or Mozart's Lachrymosa, there are many more examples, especially in opera where generally things do not turn out well. Nothing personal, I just disagreed with your opinion which of course is your right to express, but at the same time is not sacrosanct.
Non so nulla di questa melodia e nulla so di questa musicista ma il suono di questa musica mi sradica dalla terra per elevarmi fino al cielo. Per poi farmi capitolare nel buio e riaccecare dalla luce. Mi trascina
I don´t quite understand what would compel someone to give a "thumbs down"? The audio is fine considering the age of the recording - musically this interpretation is among the finest. Thank you for sharing!!
Some people tap things on screen without realizing it. Or they aim for the thumbs up button, and miss, and don't notice. There is ALWAYS going to be a small percentage of thumbs down, not necessarily from people who actually dislike it.
It's a shame that such a universal music talent had to die so early! I had the Elgar concerto with her, magnificent EMI Import from the Uk. Was 20 $ once. Unfortunately I lost my whole classical collection including the wonderful Mozart piano collection with her husband
JDP was the greatest cellist walked on Earth. Her soul was transferred directly to her cello on such a mysterious way, when you listen her, seems impossible that anyone can play with such a passion, almost out from this world.
I feel the same way about the double bassist Mikyung Sung. When she plays, she becomes simultaneously one with the music, and one with the instrument, almost a conduit through which flow the emotions embodied in the music, directly to our ears. Here in Kol Nidre accompanied by her mother: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aelbEdDtXQA.html
