Elizabeth Day on Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar and Navigating Loss

Elizabeth Day is an author, broadcaster, and host of the podcast “How to Fail,” where she interviews guests about what they have learned from failure. In this episode, Day reflects on a performance that has guided her through different stages of her life: Jacqueline Du Pré’s rendition of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor. From the disappointment of a Valentine's Day gone awry to the devastating loss of a former partner, Day has turned to the depths of beauty and pain evoked by this music and continually relied upon it to help her feel understood amidst the tumult of grief. If you’d like to hear a full performance of this work, you can find it on the Warner Classics Website . This performance of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor features soloist Jacqueline Du Pré from the Warner Classics record “The Great Concertos. Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Dvořák, Haydn.”

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Elizabeth Day on Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar and Navigating Loss is an episode from The Open Ears Project by WQXR & WNYC Studios.

This episode is 00:11:07 long.

This episode was published on Mar 4, 2024.

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