Ida Haendel - Prague Recordings 1957-1965 (2014) [5CD Box Set]

• Title: Prague Recordings 1957-1965
  
• Year Of Release: 2014
  
• Label: Supraphon [SU 4162-2]
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue, log, scans)
  
• Total Time: 06:30:28
  
• Total Size: 1,2 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

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..."


Tracks:

CD 1:
Fritz Kreisler
Preludium and Allegro for Violin and Piano

Giuseppe Tartini
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor Trillo del Diavolo

Niccolo Paganini
Mose-Fantasia. Variations on the G string on the theme by Rossini

William Kroll
Banjo and Fiddle

Maurice Ravel
Habanera (Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera)

Pablo de Sarasate
Gypsy Songs (Zigeunerweisen), Op. 20 No. 1

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 17

Bela Bartok
Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Saltarello (from the Symphony No. 4, arr. for violin and piano)

Karol Szymanowski
Mythes. Three Poemes for Violin and Piano, Op.30/1

Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento for Violin and Piano



CD 2 :
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer'



CD 3 :
Ludwig van Beethoven
Romance for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 40
Romance for Violin and Piano in F major, Op. 50

Henryk Wieniawski
Scherzo-Tarantelle in G minor, Op. 16
Mazurka in G major, Op. 19 No. 1 'Obertas'
Polonaise brilliante No. 1 in D major, Op. 4

Bela Bartok
Violin Sonata No. 2, BB 85, Sz. 76

Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto in D

Maurice Ravel
Tzigane. Concert Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra



CD 4 :
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61

Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47



CD 5 :
Edouard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21

Alexander Glazunov
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 82

Henryk Wieniawski
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor No. 2, Op. 22

Ida Haendel - violin, Alfréd Holeček - piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl
Prague Symphony Orchestra, Václáv Smetácek

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