In this video from 2002, Ida Haendel plays JS Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor.
Her dog was called Decca.
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In this video, made by young violinist siblings Leia and Leo Zhu during lockdown, Leia pays homage to the great violinist Ida Haendel, who died on 1 July 2020 at the age of 96. Also shared is footage of Leia’s meeting with Haendel in February 2018 (from 3.30). The video ...
The composition forms part of the ensemble’s forthcoming album of Mason’s works
Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Rohan De Silva perform Franz Ries’s Perpetuum Mobile, op.34 no.5 at a state dinner in 2007. In the audience are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, alongside then US President George W. Bush. Read: Never practise for more than five hours ...
This video features the Ligeti Cello Concerto played by cellist Filipe Quaresma and the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra conducted by Pedro Carneiro at the Suggia Hall of Casa da Música Porto (Portugal). Watch: Rohan de Saram plays Xenakis
This instalment of the Grand Teton Music Festival on Location, recorded at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, features Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major K.285; Reicha’s Wind Quintet in E flat major, Op.88 No.2; Farkas’s Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet ...
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