FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol 7: Piano sonatas Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] The first of Chopin's three piano sonatas, the Sonata in C minor, Opus 4, was completed in 1828, at a time when the composer was still a student of Jozet Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory The sonata was published posthumously, in 1851. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol 9 (Polonaises Vol 2) Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] Idil Biret (piano) |
LIGETI
Etudes for Piano Books I & II Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] Idil Biret's interpretations have altogether greater expressive immediacy, not least in the enfolding rhythmic contours of 'Cordes a vide', the ominous momentum sustained in 'Automne a Varsovie', and the gamelan evocations of 'Galamb borong'." -... |
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird (Piano Transcription) Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2003 ] "Idil Biret rises to the challenge of a black-and-white Firebird" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine. (November 2003) |
CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Les Djinns, Variations symphoniques, Prélude, Choral et Fugue, Prélude, Aria et Final Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] 'Idil Biret's repertory which extends from Bach to Boulez and Ligeti, including complete works of Chopin, Brahms and Rachmaninov, has an impressive dimension and also diversity. Massenet and Franck now enrich the discography of this pianist with... |
BEETHOVEN
Idil Biret Archive Edition Volume 8 - Beethoven - Sonatas Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] "The Turkish pianist Idil Biret must rank as a virtuoso. With unflagging energy she produced a series of supercharged performances. In Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata she revealed not only glittering fingerwork, but an unusually powerful and... |
BEETHOVEN
Idil Biret Beethoven Edition - Volume 19 - Piano Sonatas Volume 10 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "In Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata she revealed not only glittering fingerwork, but an unusually powerful and clear-thinking musical mind. That Kempff has been among her mentors was obviously something to take into account." DAILY TELEGRAPH |
FRANZ LISZT
Idil Biret Solo Edition 1: Liszt - Piano Sonata / Grandes Etudes de Paganini Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] "She played Liszt's monumental B minor Sonata with enormous assurance… Relatively few pianists have the sense of architecture to organize this pianistic symphonic poem. She marshalled the sustaining power to see the music through to the end, at which... |
FRANZ LISZT
Idil Biret Solo Edition 3: Liszt - 12 Grandes Etudes Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Transcriptions - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Jul/1992 ] "offers greater temperament and excitement than many of the orchestral versions. A pianistic tour de force" ClassicCD |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Favourites Volume 2 Idil Biret (Piano) [ NAXOS / CD - released 1/Jan/2016 ] One of the supremely gifted writers for piano, Chopin used the instrument to convey subtle tone-colours and a degree of emotional intensity hitherto unknown. Much of his later work was for solo piano, composed in forms that he adapted and developed. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Volume 8 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition VOl. 17 / CD - released 2/Feb/2011 ] "Biret grasps the size of Beethoven's style. The polyphony is laid out in a relaxed way with little indulgence in point making. She keeps the big line and yet is thankfully sparing in her use of fortissimos. The piano tone is sumptuous. Biret's... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Volume 9 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] "Biret grasps the size of Beethoven's style. The polyphony is laid out in a relaxed way with little indulgence in point making. She keeps the big line and yet is thankfully sparing in her use of fortissimos. The piano tone is sumptuous. Biret's... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/1993 ] "a major contribution to the catalog - and at Naxos's price, its nearly irresistible." - Fanfare |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Miroirs, La valse, Le Tombeau de Couperin Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jan/2020 ] 'Anyone who begins a programme with Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, ends with Prokofiev's Toccata, and throws in Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit has a prodigious technique. As she demonstrated yesterday afternoon the Turkish pianist Idil Biret must rank... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Symphonie Fantastique, S470 (from Berlioz, Op. 14) / Harold en Italie, transcription for viola & piano (after Berlioz), S. 472 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "The two-CD compilation of Biret's rendition of two Liszt arrangements of works by Berlioz is fascinating on almost every level." (infodad.com) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-19 / Ecossaises, Op. 72 / Tarantelle, Op. 43 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "warm-hearted and pleasurable" - Classics |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
The very best of Chopin: Excerpts from piano and chamber works Idil Biret (piano) Bernd Glemser (piano) / Maria Kliegel (cello) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Probably the most popular composer of solo piano music the world has ever known. Chopin's best-known compositions include contemplative Nocturnes, lively Preludes, charming Waltzes, devilish Etudes and more besides. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
The very best of Rachmaninov: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Idil Biret (piano) Bernd Glemser (piano) Michael Grebanier (cello) Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Janet Guggenheim (piano) Marina Mescheriakova (cello) & ma [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 Idil Biret (piano) / Bilkent Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Idil Biret Beethoven Edition / CD - released 5/Mar/2009 ] "Biret grasps the size of Beethoven's style. The polyphony is laid out in a relaxed way with little indulgence in point making. She keeps the big line and yet is thankfully sparing in her use of fortissimos. The piano tone is sumptuous. Biret's... |