From a West-Country concert hall
Ida Haendel (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood
Solo violin, Ida Haendel (See' Radio Music ', p. 5)
This brilliant young Polish virtuoso, who broadcast the Brahms Violin Concerto in D last month with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood , in a Beecham Sunday Concert, was born in Poland seventeen years ago. She began to play the violin at the age of three. Her gift was discovered when she picked up her sister's violin and to the amazement of everyone began to play a tune that her mother used to sing to her. Her career decided on, her father abandoned his own career as a painter to devote himself to his young daughter, witrt whom he travels everywhere.
Ida Haendel began her studies in the Conservatorium in Warsaw and [Home Service continued overleaf won the Gold Medal at the age of ten. Since then she has studied with great masters of the violin in Paris and London. She has already played all over the Continent and has been everywhere acclaimed.