Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta remember Jacqueline du Pré

Pinchas Zukerman

’Jackie was the most wonderfully instinctive musician I have ever met. You never felt for a moment that the music she produced did not stylistically belong to that particular work. I suppose you can compare it to a person who can speak many languages perfectly, not only grammatically correctly but sounding just like the people who live in that country. We always seem to be worrying about how Beethoven or Brahms should sound, but to Jackie it just came naturally. Even if she sang Tchaikovsky it sounded like Tchaikovsky, not Jackie.’