The Turkish pianist Idil Biret was one of the greatest child prodigies of the 20th century.;... This is the kind of playing that makes reservations irrelevant; there is no one like her, which is what defines a unique artist.'

"The music critics of the Paris press dedicated glowing articles last week to the 11 years old Turkish pianist Idil Biret. Ms. Idil Biret made a triumphal success in performing with the great master of the piano Wilhelm Kempff, Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos in E-Flat" - La Republique "Biret's unusual compilation of Wilhelm Kempff's Bach transcriptions is unlikely to be outclassed in the near future." - Gramophone "Idil Biret takes up the works of Bach. As these recordings once more show, Biret counts among the greatest pianists of the 20th century in every respect." - Piano News In 1945 Idil Biret was four years old and living with her parents in Ankara, Turkey. She could not read music yet, but she was playing Mozart or the preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach - music she had heard on the radio." - Dominique Xardel in the foreword of the book "Une Pianist" "The soloist, at the SSO concert in the Sydney Opera House performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466 was Idil Biret, the Turkish pianist. Her playing was eminently musical, stylishly phrased, totally free of mannerisms or effects imposed from outside, firm yet emotionally attuned to a work with a deep vein of sadness." - Sydney Morning Herald "The Idil Biret 'Concerto Edition' turns to Mozart, showcasing both the composer and the considerable skill that Biret brings to the performance of Mozart's music... She handles the Piano Concertos Nos. 13 and 17 with firm understanding both intellectual and technical, and with a wonderful sense of the music's ebb and flow, it's structure and it's emotional evocations." - Infodad

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 of fortissimos. The piano tone is sumptuous.

I shall conclude with a piano recital which has greatly impressed me: The pianist Idil Biret is a marvelous musician, and, even more, gifted with a very strong personality and great intelligence.

Idil Biret' new Liszt album prompts a reappraisal of her extraordinary talent... in her Liszt Sonata... you will hear playing of a formidable power and assurance... There is no mistaking her lightning reflexes in the second of the Paganini Etudes and her vi. 747313128778 IBRA8571287.2 16136342 .00 14.99 .19 IDIL BIRET ARCHIVE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/4/2/8/1908240.jpg 28 1 N MARTIN,CLAIRE / WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW 691062039222 LINN392.2 16136441 .00 20.99 .20 LINN RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/5/2/8/1908257.jpg 23 1 N MATTHEWS / VANDEWALLE PRELUDES & BAGATELLES 670541841228 RAVL7819.2 16183216 .00 13.99 .14 RAVELLO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/5/2/8/1908258.jpg 11 1 N SOLLSCHER,GORAN GORAN SOLLSCHER 7391782215144 CRE21514.2 01991246 .00 20.99 .23 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/19/1996 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/5/0/5/1465050.jpg 2 1 N ELLINGTON,DUKE / BABS,ALICE IN SWEDEN 1973 7391782215991 CRE21599.2 06473136 .00 20.99 .24 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 08/24/1999 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/5/0/5/1465054.jpg 2 1 N MITCHELL,RED HOME SUITE 7391782213133 CRE21313.2 01990065 .00 20.99 .25 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 09/27/1994 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/0/5/1465085.jpg 0 1 N RIEDEL,GEORG / ALFREDSON,HANS / DAHLGREN,EVA NU SJUNGER NAKTERGALEN 7391782213560 CRE21356.2 01990232 .00 20.99 .21 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC CHILDRENS 01/24/1995 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/8/0/5/1465086.jpg 7 1 N RIEDEL,GEORG / JANSON,CLAES / WILLEMARK,LENA LILLA UNGEN MIN 7391782214109 CRE21410.2 01990577 .00 20.99 .21 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC CHILDRENS 01/24/1995 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/8/0/5/1465088.jpg 15 1 N BRUMEL / HUELGAS ENSEMBLE / VAN NEVEL MISSA ET ECCE TERRAE MOTUS / SEQUENTIA 8718247710928 NWTC8802092.2 16182745 .00 12.99 .22 NEWTON CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/8/1/8/1908184.jpg 0 1 N BEETHOVEN / BIRET / BILSO COMPLETE PNO CTOS Love of Beethoven' works threads through Biret' life like a red ribbon. Her studio recordings and live concerts show this in an unequivocal language... Next to the Piano Concertos, the Triple Concerto and the Choral Fantasy she has also recorded and perfo.

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 playing it's finely-shaded gradations and brilliant but never mechanical figurations, revealed her as already a remarkable artist. Not for many years has a Halle audience heard such perfectly balanced Mozart playing... No words can describe the wondrous finale, with it's mixture of gaiety and anguish. This was a performance in which every note counted for it's full value." (Daily Telegraph UK) "Idil Biret is one of the few women pianists who has been able to assert her position on the world stages for decades. Biret plays here the works of... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with these recordings proves once again that she belongs among the greatest pianists of her time." (Frolich & Kaufmann)

After making her first solo piano LP recording in 1959 at the age of seventeen, Idil Biret had to wait nearly three decades before recording with an orchestra in a studio. In 1988 she recorded in London the 2nd and 4th Piano Concertos of Saint-Saens with the legendary Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by James Loughran. The Philharmonia Orchestra was established after WWII and employed extensively by another legend of music, the great producer Walter Legge, to make recordings for EMI/HMV. It was led by some of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century, such as Furtwangler, Toscanini, Richard Strauss, and Karajan. Many great pianists had recorded with this orchestra. During the next twenty-five years Biret made recordings of over sixty works for piano and orchestra in studio and at concerts under the baton of eminent conductors including Jean Fournet, Emil Tabakov, and Toshi Shimada. All of these have been released on Naxos and IBA under Naxos catalogue numbers. Additionally, live recordings of other piano concertos from Biret's concertos from 1954 onwards with eminent orchestras are available as well. All of the aforementioned are included in this enormous release.

After the brilliant Liszt interpreter Lazar Berman, now we have another maestro of the piano with a special affinity for Liszt-Idil Biret.BERLINER ZEITUNG"Though the concert program accented the virtuosic-and her sheer strength to the end.

In November 1949, at age eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF in Paris and made her first recordings. In the following decades came over eighty LPs and CDs – released on ten record labels – and many additional recordings for radio and television around the world. These included the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninov, as well as the Etudes of Ligeti. Recorded in late-2014, this recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos in C (K415) and G (K453) finds the esteemed, long-heralded, versatile virtuoso Ms. Biret in the company of the London Mozart Players, led by Patrick Gallois.

With her recording of the Brahms solo piano works now complete, Idil Biret has set a milestone for the 100th anniversary of the composer - Carsten Durer, Piano Magazine 1997. "Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto demands all that an artist has to offer: powerful chords, daring leaps, pearly runs, impeccable trills and above all endurance... Only a few pianists can play this work as Idil Biret did." - Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "The aristocrat of the bow, Roderic von Bennigsen, possess the ability to strip down cello playing to it's musical essentials." - Claredon, Le Figaro

The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra is a prime example of an ensemble which no longer pays any attention to the separation of historical and modern instruments or historic and modern styles: here the things which belong together have come together, so that music performance can be filled with emotion and expression. 4009850011101 TCET111.2 19541938 .00 23.99 .25 TACET RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/27/2002 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/5/1/7/1997159.jpg 9 2 N BEETHOVEN / ZITTERBART PIANO SONATAS The meticulously prepared releases by the Stuttgart label Tacet deserve attention... this tells me that Gerrit Zitterbart can rank with the most gifted Beethoven performers of his generation... (Frankfurter Rundschau) 4009850001102 TCET11.2 07217012 .00 23.99 .23 TACET RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 05/23/2000 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/7/1/7/1997178.jpg 12 1 N BOCCHERINI / WESTFAHLISCHER KAMMERCHOR MUNST NEW MUSICAL ADVENT CALENDAR CD with dial: The gift with a difference, for advent and Christmas: With music through the days of December; twenty-four pieces of music to look forward to Christmas with, one for each day; according to the advent custom. An idea by TACET. 4009850010500 TCET105.2 19541846 .00 23.99 .24 TACET RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/18/2000 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/8/1/7/1997186.jpg 1 1 N BEETHOVEN / BIRET COMPLETE PNO Love of Beethoven' works threads through Biret' life like a red ribbon. Her studio recordings and live concerts show this in an unequivocal language... Next to the Piano Concertos, the Triple Concerto and the Choral Fantasy she has also recorded and perfo.

Idil Biret was born in Ankara. She started to play the piano at the age of three and later studied at the Paris Conservatoire under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, graduating at the age of fifteen with three first prizes. She was pupil of Alfred Cortot and a lifelong disciple of Wilhelm Kempff. The Idil Biret Archive label is now issuing her old and new recordings which are being distributed worldwide by Naxos on CD and digitally. More than fifty CDs have been released so far. Her new recording of all the five piano concertos of Hindemith with the Yale Symphony Orchestra was released worldwide by Naxos in October 2013.

Classical Music

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 ten record labels – and many additional recordings for radio and television around the world. These included the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninov, as well as the Etudes of Ligeti. The Idil Biret Archive (IBA) is bringing together and issuing as many of her recordings as possible on both CD and digitally. The IBA is distributed worldwide by Naxos.

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. 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Peter Lieuwen presents an aural portrait of the Gulfstream. 636943969229 NAAC8559692.2 16182592 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS AMERICAN COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/3/2/8/1908237.jpg 2 1 N GREIG COMP ORCH WORKS Grieg: Complete Orchestral Works - This boxed set of Grieg's complete orchestral works is a celebration of the composer's rich and multifaceted aesthetic. Grieg was an idealistic humanist whose music and writings underlined a harmony between humans and nature. The sense of nostalgia and 'postcard lyricism' often associated with him belies the wild energy also present in his music-it's primeval force, pessimistic emotions and tempestuous Romanticism. Thanks to Bjarte Engeset's carefully researched and widely admired performances, Grieg's complex musical universe can here be appreciated in full. 747313801534 NXS508015.2 26374741 .00 56.99 .82 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 05/27/2014 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/3/2/8/1908239.jpg 0 8 Y LISZT / BIRET 12 GRANDES ETUDES S 138: SOLO EDITION 3 Idil Biret' new Liszt album prompts a reappraisal of her extraordinary talent... in her Liszt Sonata... you will hear playing of a formidable power and assurance... There is no mistaking her lightning reflexes in the second of the Paganini Etudes and her vi.