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Post by julesd68 on Jul 1, 2020 15:55:05 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 1, 2020 16:44:54 GMT
Oh no.  A great musician. RIP. For the best ever Elgar violin concerto try and find this CD ...  She even inspires the Rattler to be a decent conductor!   |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2020 17:15:01 GMT
She was quite a character, judging by the masterclass video on that page.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 1, 2020 17:24:19 GMT
Oh no. A great musician. RIP. For the best ever Elgar violin concerto try and find this CD ... She even inspires the Rattler to be a decent conductor! I've got her performing the Elgar with Sir Adrian Boult and the LPO. It's worth a listen, Jerry. It's coupled with Bach's Partita #2 Now I have to seek out your Rattle version. |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 1, 2020 18:15:43 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 2, 2020 15:36:57 GMT
Very interesting that Ida Haendel was one of the very few violinists who took on the challenge of the Britten Violin Concerto at a time when most weren't perhaps as confident in their technique as she was -
< On why the Concerto was initially programmed so infrequently, Augustin Hadelich said, “I think this was mainly because it is technically so difficult that few soloists (aside from a few fearless ones like Ida Haendel) decided to take on the challenge! It’s only over the past 20 years that it has finally established itself as one of the most important concertos of the 20th century, alongside Bartók’s Second, Shostakovich, Berg and Prokofiev.” >
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