In this video from 2002, Ida Haendel plays JS Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor.
Her dog was called Decca.
Read: ‘She was a strong woman when there were comparatively few great women soloists’ – Tasmin Little on Ida Haendel
Read: Ida Haendel: Grande dame of the violin
Watch: Ida Haendel plays informally in 2009
Read: Violinist Ida Haendel has died
Following Ida Haendel’s death at the age of 96 in July 2020, Tully Potter surveys the career of an exceptional performer and a remarkable woman. From September 2020
Robin Stowell reviews Márta Ábrahám’s treatise on the famed Chaconne, another in her series of discussions of Bach masterpieces
In this extract from January 1999, Simon Rowland-Jones shares the challenges encountered when recording Bach’s Cello Suites on viola
The work by Zoë Martlew draws influences from a modern lullaby from Iraq and the Middle Eastern oud
Who needs the full symphony orchestra when you can play the whole thing on one violin?
The violinist and vocalist performs ’A Change is Gonna Come’ by Sam Cooke, a song that became an anthem for the American Civil Rights Movement
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