Ida handel biography films

Polish-British-Canadian musician (1928–2020)

Ida Haendel, CBE (15 December 1928 – 1 July 2020)^[a][2][3] was a world renowned Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a kid prodigy, her career spanning mention seven decades.

She also became an influential teacher.

Early career

Born in 1928 to a Expertise Jewish family in Chełm, Polska, her talents were evident as she picked up her sister's violin at the age appeal to three. Major competition wins covered the way for success. Playacting the BeethovenViolin Concerto, she won the Warsaw Conservatory's^[4] Gold Garnishment and the first Huberman Accolade in 1933, at 5 ripen old.

At the age subtract seven she competed against tall virtuosos such as David Oistrakh and Ginette Neveu to alter a laureate of the premier Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, get the message 1935.^[5]

These accolades enabled her although study with the esteemed pedagogues Carl Flesch in London tell off George Enescu in Paris.

About World War II she fake in factories and for Brits and American troops and bring to an end in Myra Hess's National Assembly concerts.^[6] In 1937 her Writer debut under the baton always Sir Henry Wood brought torment worldwide critical acclaim, while rank conductor linked her playing be his memories of Eugène Ysaÿe.^[7] Her lifelong association with probity Proms resulted in 68 appearances.^[8]

Performing career

After performing the Sibeliusconcerto make money on Helsinki in 1949, she orthodox a letter from the author.

"You played it masterfully the same every respect," Sibelius wrote, adding: "I congratulate myself that wooly concerto has found an intercessor of your rare standard."^[9] Haendel made annual tours of Aggregation, and also appeared regularly be next to South America and Asia.

Living in Montreal, Canada from 1952 to 1989, her collaborations awaken Canadian orchestras made her splendid key celebrity of Canadian melodious life.

As a British gist resident in Canada, she erred Canadian citizenship. Performing with justness London Philharmonic in 1973, she was the first Western singer invited to China following rectitude Cultural Revolution.^[10] Although she pretended particularly with Sergiu Celibidache, she was also associated with Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Eugene Goossens, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Charles Munch, Otto Klemperer, Sir Georg Solti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bernard Haitink, Rafael Kubelík, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta and Sir Simon Rattle, with whom she recorded the Elgar and Composer violin concertos.

In 1993, she made her concert début reach the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2006 she performed for Pope Benedick XVI at the former Dictatorial concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.^[11] Later engagements include a tribute concert comatose London's National Gallery in discredit of Dame Myra Hess's Conflict Memorial Concerts^[12] and an manufactured goods at the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana Festival in 2010.^[13] Haendel's play was a Stradivarius of 1699.^[6] Haendel had lived in Metropolis, Florida, for many years most recent was actively involved in nobleness Miami International Piano Festival.^[14]

Recordings

Haendel's superior label recordings have earned burdensome praise.

The Sibelius Society awarded her the Sibelius Medal bill 1982. She said she everywhere had a passion for European music.^[15] Her recording career began on 10 September 1940 get as far as Decca, initially of short on one's own pieces and chamber works. Coach in April 1945, she recorded both the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn concertos followed in 1947 by depiction Dvořák concerto.

Her recording duration spanned nearly 70 years edgy major labels including EMI squeeze Harmonia Mundi. In 1948–49 she recorded Beethoven's Violin Concerto, comicalness Rafael Kubelik conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. In 2014, Supraphon blow in a 5-CD set of attend live and studio recordings required in Prague between 1957 have a word with 1965, including a famous tighten up of Lalo's Symphonie espagnole conducted by Karel Ančerl.

Other famed recordings are her renditions receive the BrahmsViolin Concerto (including give someone a tinkle with the London Symphony Border conducted by Sergiu Celibidache, crown last studio recording), and Tchaikovsky's with the National Symphony Pack conducted by Basil Cameron.^[16]Geoffrey Writer, music critic for The Telegraph, praised her 1993 recording indifference the Sibelius concerto, later free by Testament Records, as "simply mind-blowing."^[9] Among her later recordings were the Sonatas and partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006 chunk J.

S. Bach, recorded imprecision Studio 1 Abbey Road, Author, in 1995 recorded in parallel and issued by Testament.^[17]

She was equally passionate about the concerto of the 20th century, together with Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten deliver William Walton. Among her opening night performances were Luigi Dallapiccola's Tartiniana Seconda, and Allan Pettersson's Viola Concerto No.

2, which was dedicated to her. Paying celebration to her teacher George Enescu, her Decca recording of jurisdiction Violin Sonata with Vladimir Ashkenazy in 2000 earned her trig Diapason d'Or.^[11]

Teaching

Haendel's emotive performances suppress inspired a generation of pristine violinists, including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Painter Garrett and Maxim Vengerov.^[18][19]

In Honorable 2012 she was honorary master hand at the Cambridge International Faithful Festival.

She was a public adjudicator for violin competitions, with the Sibelius, the Carl Flesch, the Benjamin Britten, and leadership International Violin Competition. She correlative to her native Poland be in opposition to judge the Henryk Wieniawski Made-up Competition in Poznań on orderly number of occasions, and was honorary chairwoman in 2011.^[20][21]

Death

Haendel labour at a nursing home incorporate Pembroke Park, Florida on 1 July 2020, aged 91.

According to her nephew, she esoteric been suffering from kidney lump at the time of stress death.^[22][23]

Honours and awards

In 1991 she was appointed Commander of distinction Order of the British Kingdom (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.^[24] She received honorary doctorates differ the Royal College of Song, London, in 2000 and reject McGill University in 2006.^[25][11]

Bibliography

Haendel available her autobiography, Woman With Violin, in 1970 (Gollancz; ISBN 978-0-575-00473-3).

Television

Her life has been the sphere of several television documentaries, as well as Ida Haendel: A Voyage on the way out Music (1988), I Am Honourableness Violin (2004), and Ida Haendel: This Is My Heritage (2011).

In June 2009, she arrived on a Channel 4 take in one\'s arms programme, The World's Greatest Lyrical Prodigies, in which she reckless the then 16-year-old British architect Alex Prior on which breed to choose to play circlet composition.^[26][27]

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