Ida Haendel: Prague Recordings 1957-1965

The Kreutzer is magisterial and played with intelligence and authority...In the Glazunov she brings to the score a wealth of tonal colour. The Wieniawski is a virtuoso tour de force and in the... — MusicWeb International, 14th October 2014 More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2014
Catalogue No: SU41622
Label: Supraphon

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Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, BB 85, Sz. 76

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56 (arr. Székely for violin & piano)

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer'

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Beethoven: Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 40

arr. for violin and piano
Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Ravel: Tzigane

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Ravel: Habanera

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Stravinsky: Divertimento (transcription for violin & piano by Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin from Le Baiser de la Fée)

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor 'Devil's Trill'

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Wieniawski: Scherzo-Tarantelle in G minor, Op. 16

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Wieniawski: Mazurka in G major, Op. 19 No. 1 'Obertas'

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

Wieniawski: Polonaise brilliante No. 1 in D major, Op. 4

Ida Haendel (violin) & Alfréd Holeček (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Smetáček & Karel Ančerl

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Such attributes as charismatic, singular, exceptional are somewhat overused today. Yet in the case of Ida Haendel they are justified. Born in 1928 into a Polish Jewish family, she was a child prodigy, playing Beethoven’s violin concerto at the age of five... and leading master classes in London at the age of 85. After her Prague debut in 1957, she returned to the city throughout the 1960s, either to give concerts (most frequently with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karel Ančerl, and exclusively accompanied by the pianist Alfréd Holeček at chamber recitals) or to work in a studio.

The present album features the complete live and studio recordings Ida Haendel made in Prague until 1965 deposited in the Supraphon and Czech Radio archives, with a number of them being released for the very first time. Alongside “virtuoso pieces” and sonatas, the CDs include concertos by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Wieniawski, as well as her “flagship” Sibelius. When listening, you will have no doubts as to the veracity of Ida Haendel’s seemingly immodest statement “I am the violin...”

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14th October 2014

The Kreutzer is magisterial and played with intelligence and authority...In the Glazunov she brings to the score a wealth of tonal colour. The Wieniawski is a virtuoso tour de force and in the third movement, whilst she doesn’t quite match Heifetz’s quicksilver dexterity, there’s some sparkling fingerwork.

Ida Haendel: Prague Recordings 1957-1965

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