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... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Concert Fantasy (Idil Biret Concerto Edition - Volume 5) Idil Biret (piano) / Bilkent Symphony Orchestra / Emil Tabakov / José Serebrier [ Naxos Idil Biret Collector's Edition / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Idil Biret was one of the greatest (child) prodigies of the 20th century. Her recital at the Boston Conservatory on Tuesday night demonstrated that she is no less prodigious today. She played a long and demanding program with the power,... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 24, 25, 27 Idil Biret (piano) / London Mozart Players, Worthing Symphony Orchestra, John Gibbons [ Naxos Idil Biret Concerto Edition / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2019 ] This release features the 7th and 8th volumes in the Naxos Idil Biret Concerto Edition. "Miss Biret was soloist in an entrancing performance of Mozart's concerto K. 482 with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mlle Nadia Boulanger. The variety of her... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Idil Biret Archive Edition Volume 18 - Brahms: Piano Quintet Idil Biret (piano) / London String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] "Idil Biret's tensile, rhythmic playing was especially fine here." - Music and Musicians - UK March 1980 |
MAHLER
Mahler - Quartet for Piano and Strings (with Franck - Quintet) Idil Biret (piano) London String Quartet [ Naxos Idil Biret Archive Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "..the earliest Mahler work to have come down to us, the single movement for piano quartet in A minor, which he wrote while a student at the Vienna Conservatory |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 / Introduction and Concert Allegro in D minor, Op. 134 Idil Biret (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice); Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jul/2003 ] "I have spent hours going through at least ten of my favorite recordings of this concerto, and this one with Idil Biret ranks right up there with the top five" Listener |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Idil Biret (piano) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / 15 CD Box Set - released 5/May/1999 ] "anyone wanting a Chopin cycle, will be well served by this set. Biret is one of the finest pianists before the public today… Definitely a rewarding reissue." ClassicalNet |
MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / MAHLER / etc
Idil Biret Best of Chamber Music - With Selections from the Complete Studio Recordings Idil Biret (piano), with Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Borusan Quartet; London String Quartet [ Naxos Idil Biret Archive / 4 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2020 ] From the age of 16, Idil Biret played as a soloist with the most distinguished orchestras in the world including the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, and many others. |
PAUL HINDEMITH
The Complete Piano Concertos Idil Biret (piano) / Yale Symphony Orchestra, Toshiyuki Shimada [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/Jan/2014 ] This set should be explored by anybody who has not heard these works before. They will be pleasantly surprised by the wealth of enjoyment that is to be had in them. |
Ignaz Friedman
Beethoven/Chopin/Mozart:piano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] |
GLUCK / SCHUBERT / CHOPIN
Complete Recordings Vol 3 Ignaz Friedman (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] |
CHOPIN / WEBER / MOSZKOWSKI / DVORAK / PADEREWSKI
Complete Recordings, Vol. 5 Ignaz Friedman (piano) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] (English Columbia Recordings) This fifth and final volume of Friedman's commercial recordings contains all the published sides from sessions made in London in 1933 and 1936. |
CHOPIN / RUBINSTEIN / WEBER
Friedman: Complete Recordings, Vol. 5: English Columbia Recordings Ignaz Friedman (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] Until 1914 Friedman lived in Berlin but during World War I he lived in Copenhagen and after the war resided in Italy. Friedman's first visit to America was in 1920 and in April 1923 he made his first records for American Columbia. |
SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / HUMMEL / MOZART / etc
Friedmann : Complete Recordings Vol.1 Ignaz Friedman (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 3/Sep/2002 ] classic pianists from the first half of the twentieth century |
BOGDANOV-BEREZOVSKY / FRID / KREIN / KRYUKOV / VASILENKO
Soviet Russian Viola Music Igor Fedotov (viola) / Gary Hammond (piano) / Leonid Vechkhayzer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Here is a recording of rarities on two counts. Not only is the music of Kryukov, Vasilenko, Frid, Krein and Bogdanov-Berezovsky little known outside of Russia, but viola sonatas are as welcome as they are scarce. Romantic lyricism, the influence of... |
TEIZO MATSUMURA
Matsumura: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Ikuyo Kamiya (piano) / RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra / Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Sonatas Nos.1 to 3 for Violin and Piano Ilya Kaler (violin) / Alexander Peskanov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2002 ] "This is warm, deeply felt music-making, Brahms' lines eloquently formed and propelled. The warm, true sonics are ideal." - Scott Cantrell Dallas Morning News |
SCHUMANN
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 Ilya Kaler (violin) / Boris Slutsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "These performances, powerfully recorded in Indiana by young Russian artists, are most enjoyable" - Gramophone |
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Seasons / Piano Sonata in C sharp minor Ilya Rachkovsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Tchaikovsky's The Seasons is a collection of twelve piano pieces, each one representing a month of the year, from the melancholy fireside in January, through Carnival, the song of the lark, April snowdrops and the nights of May, to the wistful... |