Ida Haendel, a Polish-born violin prodigy who became a sought-after soloist after moving to Britain, where she drew acclaim for her interpretations of concertos by Jean Sibelius and William Walton, ...
A link to the early-20th-century school of violin playing, Ms. Haendel was a noted champion of the concertos of Britten, Walton and Sibelius. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Ida Haendel, the ...
She was never quite as famous as the men: Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Jascha Heifetz. But if you heard Ida Haendel play violin once, you knew her tone anywhere: the shuddery, overwhelming pointedness ...
IDA Haendel, who was regarded as one of the foremost violinists of her generation and was described by critics as “the grande dame of the violin”, has died from kidney cancer, aged 96, in a nursing ...
showed early brilliance as a violinist, winning competitions and earning a reputation for being as accomplished as Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern. Over a career of 70 years, her playing has become ...