Ida Haendel Decca Box

[Barbirollians]

So here the tributes come a box from Australian Eliquence with all her Decca recordings plus a 1982 Sibelius Concerto and that much discused but never heard Ida recording of the Lark Ascending.

[Bryn]

So here the tributes come a box from Australian Eloquence with all her Decca recordings plus a 1982 Sibelius Concerto and that much discused but never heard Ida recording of the Lark Ascending.

https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/ida-haendel/

Looks like Amazon are on the ball: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haendel-HAE...s=music&sr=1-1

[Dave2002]

https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/ida-haendel/

Looks like Amazon are on the ball: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haendel-HAE...s=music&sr=1-1

Is there overlap between that and the Supraphon set which I noticed recently on Presto? Maybe those are very different performances.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8042551--ida-haendel-prague-recordings-1957-1965

[Bryn]

Is there overlap between that and the Supraphon set which I noticed recently on Presto? Maybe those are very different performances.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...ings-1957-1965

The text of the page led to by the first link I included refers to her having made recordings for HMV and Supraphon "Haendel made a number of well-regarded recordings on the HMV label, and a handful for Supraphon in Prague" but this new box appears to be restricted to her Decca recordings.

[mikealdren]

They are different performances, you can get the Decca track listing under 'forthcoming releases'. The Decca box is 5 CDs but a large portion were on the Ashkenasy etc. double CD a few years ago so I already have them.

[Barbirollians]

They are different performances, you can get the Decca track listing under 'forthcoming releases'. The Decca box is 5 CDs but a large portion were on the Ashkenasy etc. double CD a few years ago so I already have them.

I am surprised there has not been much discussion of her recording of The Lark Ascending which languished in the Decca vaults for over 20 years apparently because Norrington’s VW cycle was never completed.

I had put off listening to it until today . I was a bit worried about frailty not sure why when her 1996 Bach sonatas were so secure .

I was bowled over by it . Unlike so many serene performances my favourite being Bean and Boult - there is a nervous anxiety in it that reminds one exactly when it was written . Outstanding performance and makes the piece sound far more interesting and important than I have ever heard it before.