Ida Haendel (violin) Hoe Down ( Rodeo Copland) (1950)

The 21 year old Ida Haendel plays Hoe Down from Copland s 1942 score for the ballet Rodeo, recorded on 18 May 1950 with piano by Gerald Moore. This is a truly amazing and engaging performance of a work which normally wouldn t enthuse me but in Haendel s hands it becomes a masterpiece From Wikipedia: Ida Haendel, CBE (15 December 1928 1 July 2020) was a PolishBritishCanadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influential teacher. Born in 1928 to a Polish Jewish family in Chełm, Poland, her talents were evident when she picked up her sister s violin at the age of three. Major competition wins paved the way for success. Performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto, she won the Warsaw Conservatory s Gold Medal and the first Huberman Prize in 1933, at 5 years old. At the age of seven she competed against towering virtuosos such as David Oistrakh and Ginette Neveu to become a laureat