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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810. His father, Nicolas Chopin, was French by birth, but had been taken to Poland in 1787, at the age of sixteen, working first as a clerk in a tobacco factory, before taking part in the... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes (Selection) Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Among forms that Chopin made his own was the Nocturne, at one time synonymous with the Serenade, but with the Irish pianist John Field and Chopin, his successor, a lyrical piano piece offering, nominally at least, a poetic vision of the night. Field... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Easy-Listening Piano Classics: Brahms Idil Biret / Christian Kohn / Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Naxos' Easy-Listening Piano Classics presents a delightful range of music from Baroque masterpieces to beautiful works of the Classic and Romantic eras, as well as Impressionist classics, specially selected for discerning listeners to enjoy at home... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 Idil Biret (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, James Loughran [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Saint-Saens' plano concertos require brilliance and panache and Idil Biret has those qualities ... Good support from the Philharmonia and James Loughran." - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY - 23 Sept 90 |
MYASKOVSKY / SCRIABIN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV
Idil Biret Archive Edition Volume 7 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "If 20th-century music were always performed like this, it would surely not suffer from the hearer-unfriendly reputation that still too often bedevils it." MUSICWEB |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Edition 12: Piano Sonatas Vol. 6 - Nos. 4, 8 & 27 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |