Idil Biret Archive

  • J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Klavier - 48 Preludes and Fugue
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    The centerpiece of the Bach collection is a 2015 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier, the so- called old testament of piano music, a series of 48 preludes and fugues in all of the piano's possible...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 04, 2025

  • J.S. Bach: Concertos for 1, 2, 3, 4 Keyboards - Idil Biret A

    $19.99

    Idil Biret was introduced very early to the music of Bach. At the age of three she was trying to play from ear the preludes of Bach from the Well Tempered Clavier which her mother...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 07, 2025

  • Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 14

    $14.99

    “All the works [on this LP] require a pianist of true class, because each of them presents challenges demanding something quite different from traditional technique. It has to be said that the young Idil Biret...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 29, 2013

  • Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 1

    $14.99

    Igor Stravinsky' Three Movements from Petrouchka is a musically challenging and unusually difficult score which has to intimidate any pianist in his right mind.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 26, 2010

  • Idil Biret Chamber Music Edition, Vol. 1

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    In November 1949, at age eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF in Paris and made her first recordings. + In the following decades she made over eighty LPs and CDs – released on...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2014

  • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 - Ravel: Piano Concerto in
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    The Turkish pianist Idil Biret was one of the greatest child prodigies of the 20th century. Her recital at the Boston Conservatory demonstrated that she is no less prodigious today. She played a long and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 29, 2009

  • Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Biret C

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    Schonberg, insisting on the legitimate interest that attaches to every aspect of the life and person of a great man, once said he would have liked to see how Mahler tied his tie.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 31, 2010

  • Beethoven, L. van: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (Biret) - Nos. 4, 8

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    Biret grasps the size of Beethoven' 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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 27, 2009

  • Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 18

    $14.99

    Idil Biret made her first piano recordings when she was only eight years old. She walked into ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) and performed works by Couperin, Bach, Beethoven, and Debussy. Over the course...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2016

  • Biret Archive Edition, Vols. 9, 10

    $26.99

    Idil Biret' reading of the Symphonie fantastique is, in many-respects the most remarkable thing of it's kind in the repertoire�.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 30, 2011

  • Idil Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 4

    $14.99

    The most exciting young pianist to come to Montreal in years. She has a personal magnetism that belongs only to a certain type of virtuoso performer, one who succeeds in hypnotizing you no matter how...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 31, 2012

  • Idil Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 2

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    Nearly a quarter century separates the two recordings of the Turkish pianist, who with the Paganini Etudes demonstrates what a brilliant virtuoso she was, and with the Liszt Sonata-recorded in 2010-shows that she still is.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 27, 2011

  • Idil Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 6

    $14.99

    In November 1949, at the age of eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF in Paris and made her first recordings. In the following decades she made over eight LPs and CDs and many...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 25, 2013

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9

    $14.99

    Especially with Beethoven Idil Biret proved herself a great artist with breathtaking depth of expression and dramatic performing power... The big applause was fully deserved. KURIER "Biret grasps the size of Beethoven' style.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 25, 2011

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5

    $14.99

    Biret grasps the size of Beethoven' 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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 25, 2009

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