伝説のヴァイオリニスト、イダ・ヘンデルが2008年4月来日時に残した録音盤。バッハ、モーツァルトにはじまり、ヴィニャフスキにいたる楽曲を集めたヴァイオリン名曲集。

Product Description
In 2008 Ida Haendel recorded this album of violin music, with and without piano. This recital includes Saint-Saen's "Introduction" and "Rondo Capriccioso", the "Chaconne" from J.S.Bach's D minor Partita for unaccompanied violin, Brahm's "Hungarian Dance No. 1" and Mozart's well-loved "Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat". It is a recording of intensity, musicianship and charm. The perfect album for violin aficionados.

About the Artist
Ida Haendel is one of the most legendary musicians of our time. She has performed with most of the world’s leading orchestras under numerous star conductors and has inspired the greatest violinists of today. Defying age, she shows no evidence of slowing down.

Born in 1928 to a traditional Polish-Jewish family in Chełm, Eastern Poland, her prodigious talents were evident when she picked up her father’s violin at the age of three. Major competition wins paved the way for success. Performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto, she won the Warsaw Conservatoire Gold Medal and the first Huberman Prize in 1933. At the age of seven she competed against towering virtuosos – the likes of Oistrakh and Neveu – to become a laureate of the first Henryk Wieniawski violin competition in 1935. These accolades enabled her to study with the esteemed pedagogues Carl Flesch in London and George Enescu in Paris.

In 1937 her London debut under the baton of Sir Henry Wood brought her worldwide critical acclaim, and began a lifelong association with the Proms. Few artists can lay claim to a career which includes 68 BBC Proms performances. Her major label recordings have earned critical praise, particularly her unsurpassed performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto which elicited a fan letter from its composer: ‘I congratulate you on the great success, but most of all I congratulate myself, that my concerto has found an interpreter of your rare standard’. The Sibelius Society awarded her the Sibelius Medal in 1982.

Ida Haendel has been honoured by the world’s most revered institutions. In 1991 she was presented with a CBE by the Queen Elizabeth II, and she received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Music in 2000. Ida published her autobiography 'Woman With Violin' in 1970. Her life has been the subject of several television documentaries, including Ida Haendel: A Voyage of Music (1988), I Am The Violin (2004), and the forthcoming Ida Haendel: This Is My Heritage (2011).

Brandishing her 1696 Stradivarius, her performing career shows no signs of slowing, and she still continues to inspire audiences today. In 2006 she performed for Pope Benedict XVI at the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.