Jacqueline du Pré

Londres 1969, au Queen Elisabeth Hall. Un concert de légende réunit autour du quintette de Schubert, "La Truite", cinq jeunes gens aujourd'hui mythiques. Le document, tout à la fois reportage et concert filmé, restitue l'atmosphère de complicité musicale et d'enjouement qui baigne cette rencontre, avant, pendant et après le concert. Le quintette en la majeur D667 op 114, dit "La Truite", a été composé à l'automne 1819, au retour du premier séjour de Schubert à Steyr, petite ville de Haute Autriche. Son ami baryton Michael Vogl lui avait fait rencontrer Sylvestre Paumgartner, un "maître des forges" mélomane et violoncelliste.

This is almost certainly the finest performance ever filmed of this great work - Beethoven’s Piano Trio Opus 70 No. 1, known as The Ghost. The work is a masterpiece, the performance spellbinding and the filming, in the words of the French film and opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, the most successful translation of musical performance onto the screen that he had ever seen.

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brighten the world". The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven, at which Schubert was a torch-bearer, His story is told almost entirely in music written in the twenty months that remained to him after that date, together with quotations from Schubert's letters, diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs. Includes personal introductions by Christopher Nupen and Jacqueline du Pré and features the legendary 1969 performance of The Trout with Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta.

A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive footage shot during Jacqueline du Pré’s lifetime which captures some glorious and professionally filmed live performances. It also remembers both her personality and her music through the memories and tributes of her closest friends and colleagues.