Ida Haendel: If I wasn’t a violinist, I’d have been a chauffeur

Ida Haendel: If I wasn’t a violinist, I’d have been a chauffeur

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norman lebrecht

October 21, 2018

The doyenne is in sparkling form in this new Polish documentary.

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  • Alex Davies says:
    October 21, 2018 at 8:40 pm

    It’s not clear to me what part of this was Polish.

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  • Jonathan Dunsby says:
    October 21, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks, so what is the year that she did this Sibelius concerto with Ashkenazy ? Is she still playing ?

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  • Nigel Goldberg says:
    October 21, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    She’s an absolutely heroic artist, has outlasted all her contemporaries and can still play wonderfully

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  • daveferre says:
    October 22, 2018 at 4:09 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGfRpsWK4uU

    This link is to a trailer of a great (and Polish) documentary but the whereabouts of the documentary is hard to find.

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    • Monika says:
      October 28, 2019 at 10:15 pm

      Ask Christine Jezior, author of the -WHY COMPETITION, -Wanda Wilkomirska portrait I WILL SHOW YOU! and two documentaries on- Ida Haendel…plus more …Dave, much love! monika

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  • Kurt Archuleta says:
    October 24, 2018 at 7:24 am

    Could someone please kindly identify the piece Ms Handle is playing with piano?

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