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. Biret' gentle. 747313126675 NXS8571266.2 14938696 .00 14.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/5/5/6/1626556.jpg 1 1 N SOKOLOVIC / DEROME / PRYNN / D'ERRICO TRIO FIBONACCI: 5X3 773811157101 CCD15710.2 14925801 .00 18.99 .21 CENTREDISCS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/9/5/6/1626596.jpg 1 1 N HALVORSEN / THORSEN / BERGEN PHIL ORCH / JARVI ORCHESTRAL WORKS 1 095115158425 CHN10584.2 14925689 .00 21.99 .25 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/6/6/1626626.jpg 0 1 N HANDEL / SIXTEEN / CHRISTOPHERS CORONATION ANTHEMS 828021606625 CORO16066.2 14258510 .00 20.99 .22 CORO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 02/10/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/5/7/1/1471750.jpg 22 1 N LEHAR / KENNY / SKOVHUS / TURAY / KIRCHSCHLAGER MERRY WIDOW Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, and Gregory Turay star in this San Francisco Opera production of the Lehar operetta conducted by Erich Kunzel. 809478070559 BOPU7055BR 14939044 .00 39.99 .25 BBC / OPUS ARTE BLU-RAY CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/6/6/6/1626664.jpg 5 1 N HAYDN / VIENNA PHILHARMONIC / BOULEZ / MEHTA HAYDN SYMPHONIES 812864010930 VNPR2009.2 14936722 .00 44.99 .20 VIENNA PHILHARMONIC COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/6/6/6/1626665.jpg 0 3 N WALTERS / FOULKES / PRYCE / SUMMERHAYES / EIMER SONG OF THE HEART 5060113440907 TCCT90.2 14173172 .00 20.99 .23 TOCCATA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/13/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/3/1/3/1463131.jpg 22 1 N BERNIER / GETCHELL / MECHALY / COHEN-AKENINE NUITS DE SCEAUX 3760014190582 ALPP58.2 10537152 .00 20.99 .23 ALPHA PRODUCTIONS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 02/08/2005 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/4/1/3/1463142.jpg 271 1 N BUXTEHUDE / MEYER / PAHN / ZOMER / ABO / KOOPMAN COMPLETE WORKS 7: VOCAL WORKS 608917224627 CHLL72246.2 13809539 .00 26.99 .38 CHALLENGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/0/8/5/1365804.jpg 7 2 N BOTTESINI / MARTIN / HALSTEAD / FUGELLE FANTASIA LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR FANTASIA Giovanni Bottesini enjoyed a globe-trotting career as �the Paganini of the double bass� but was also an accomplished and respected conductor in Europe. When conducting operas Bottesini would often perform fantasies on the evening�s entertainment during the intermission. Two such fantasies, �Lucia di Lammermoor� and �Beatrice di Tenda�, are virtuosic tours de force in which the complex double bass figurations mimic the coloratura vocal writing of the day. In keeping with this vocal style, this recording also includes the song Une bouche aim�e with double bass obbligato, most likely performed on one of Bottesini�s frequent concert tours with various leading sopranos of the day. 747313039975 NXS8570399.2 14051104 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/28/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/1/4/6/1426413.jpg 4 1 N HOLMGREEN / KRONOS QUARTET / DNSO / DAUSGAARD KRONOS PLAYS HOLMGREEN 747313154869 DACA6220548SACD 14065934 .00 13.99 .24 DACAPO SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/28/2008 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/43/1265043-2528576.jpg 19 1 N NAIVE: MAISON D'ARTISTES 10TH ANNIVERSARY / VAR NAIVE: MAISON D'ARTISTES 10TH ANNIVERSARY / VAR 822186051603 NAV5160.2 14070549 .00 18.99 .27 NAIVE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL V/A COMPILATIONS 10/28/2008 12/08/2008 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/04/1265104.jpg 5 2 N LINDBERG,JOHN JOHN LINDBERGS TRIPOLAR 4250079758708 JZWT114.2 15758002 .00 22.99 .24 JAZZWERKSTATT COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 05/31/2011 10/29/2019 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/0/8/4/1844806.jpg 1 1 N CORELLI COMPLETE EDITION / VARIOUS CORELLI COMPLETE EDITION / VARIOUS 5028421941127 BRLT94112.2 15753908 .00 50.99 .63 BRILLIANT CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC V/A COMPILATIONS 05/31/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/1/9/4/1844913.jpg 0 10 Y DE MACHAUT / VELLARD / ENSEMBLE GILLES BINCHOIS SACRED & SECULAR MUSIC 5028421942179 BRLT94217.2 15753984 .00 21.99 .46 BRILLIANT CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 05/31/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/9/4/1844914.jpg 0 4 N BODUROV TRIO STAMPS FROM BULGARIA 2008 608917327625 CHLL73276.2 14183423 .00 18.99 .20 CHALLENGE COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 01/13/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/4/8/0/1440840.jpg 3 1 N BASSO,GIANNI QUARTETTO GIANNI BASSO Reissue of this 1981 release. Gianni Basso represents one of the most solid institutions of Italian Jazz. He has been like this since the beginning, when he appeared in Milan after some years abroad. At that time, he already had a long story behind him as an activist Jazz musician: he started playing during his childhood in his hometown of Asti (where he was born in 1931) and then in Belgium, where his father emigrated with his family to work in the mines. 8018344021331 READ133.2 27536377 .00 18.99 .25 REARWARD COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 09/01/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/7/2/2/1522271.jpg 4 1 N FOOTE / SEATTLE SYMPHONY / SCHWARZ FRANCESCA DA RIMINI / AIR & GAVOTTE / SUITE IN E Born in Massachusetts, Arthur Foote was unusual among 19th century American composers in that practically all of his training took place in the United States. 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He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenthcentury German authors, early Romantics and Biedermeier poets. 747313006779 NXS8570067.2 13786847 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/29/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/5/2/9/1379254.jpg 9 1 N WAGNER / CURPHEY / REMEDIOS / BAILEY / GOODALL MASTERPIECES OF NUREMBERG 095115314821 CHN3148.2 13786298 .00 40.99 .74 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 07/29/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/6/2/9/1379261.jpg 0 4 N RODRIGO / WILLIAMS,JOHN CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ / FANTASIA PARA UN GENTILHOM Drawn from the worldwide catalog holdings of Sony Classical, which includes both the Columbia/CBS and RCA Victor label imprints, the SONY Classical Originals, SONY Classical Masters Singles and Box Sets, SONY Opera and Opera House series offer an extensive selection of highly desirable and collectible pressed import editions, smartly-designed and graphically-pleasing, featuring the most sought after recordings by the world's preeminent, legendary artists both past and present, with many titles newly re-mastered in 24 bit High Resolution Audio. 886976905422 SYNX88697690542.2 15504838 .00 9.98 .20 SONY MASTERWORKS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 04/05/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/9/0/6/1686097.jpg 2 1 N MUSSORGSKY / OZAWA,SEIJI PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION & BRITTEN YOUNG PERSONS Drawn from the worldwide catalog holdings of Sony Classical, which includes both the Columbia/CBS and RCA Victor label imprints, the SONY Classical Originals, SONY Classical Masters Singles and Box Sets, and SONY Opera House series offer an extensive selection of highly desirable and collectible EU (Germany) pressed import editions, smartly designed and graphically pleasing, featuring the most sought-after recordings by the world's preeminent, legendary artists both past and present, with many titles newly re-mastered in 24 bit High Resolution Audio. 886976910020 SYNX88697691002.2 15504685 .00 11.98 .22 SONY MASTERWORKS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 04/05/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/1/1/6/1686119.jpg 0 1 N ZALLMAN / SHAPIRO MUSIC OF ARLENE ZALLMAN 090404932328 BRI9323.2 15206671 .00 18.99 .22 BRIDGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/14/2010 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/44/1289844-2552948.jpg 4 1 N MOZART / STRAUSS / DSO BERLIN / ASHKENAZY MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO 422143975357 AUDT97535.2 13764951 .00 15.99 .20 AUDITE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/08/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/8/0/9/1379086.jpg 17 1 N DZUBAY / SOLOFF / ELLSWORTH / SELTZER / TAYLOR MUSIC FOR BRASS 090404923029 BRI9230.2 13780715 .00 18.99 .76 BRIDGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/08/2008 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/39/1290239-2553253.jpg 7 1 N BRITTEN / GRITTON / PADMORE / NURNSIDE BRITTEN ABROAD 635212012222 SGUK122.2 13688639 .00 19.99 .21 SIGNUM CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/24/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/3/7/4/1374733.jpg 12 1 N KWARTLUDIUM / DUSZYNSKI / FALKIEWICZ / GRYKA KWARTLUDIUM 5902547005966 DUX596.2 21336829 .00 21.99 .27 DUX RECORDING PROD. COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 01/01/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/6/7/9/1379769.jpg 10 1 N KNEEBODY YOU CAN HAVE YOUR MOMENT 025091016525 WNTR165.2 15138552 .00 20.99 .21 WINTER & WINTER COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 08/10/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/3/6/4/1674635.jpg 2 1 N TUUR / SINFONIETTA RIGA / REUSS ARKAMINE (AWAKENING) 761195118320 OND1183.2 16183070 .00 18.99 .22 ONDINE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/2/3/8/1908322.jpg 4 1 N SALGAN / PIAZZOLLA / TRIOLO / OSCURO QUINTET MUSIC FOR TANGO ENSEMBLE 670541841211 BGRU8919.2 16102408 .00 13.99 .13 BIG ROUND RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/3/3/8/1908339.jpg 5 1 N WEBER / BAMBERGER SYMPHONIKER / STEFFENS CLARINET CONCERTOS 1 & 2 & CONCERTINO 812973011590 TUDO7159SACD 16183346 .00 21.99 .24 TUDOR SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/5/3/8/1908354.jpg 7 1 N RISSANEN,AKI LA LUMIERE NOIRE 3760058368701 AEON870.2 14575488 .00 8.99 .18 AEON COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 04/01/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/3/5/4/1374533.jpg 6 1 N VERDI / BORODIN / GERSHWIN / GERDIJIKOV / NIKOLOVA OPERA ARIAS & DUETS 3800121303311 GEG331.2 13840891 .00 16.99 .25 GEGA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 04/06/2021 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/8/0/6/3896082.jpg 1 1 N MAHLER / BACH / PROKOFIEV / MITROPOULOS ART OF DIMITRI MITROPOULOS 2 The Art of Dimitri Mitropoulus Vol. 2 contains these gems! NYPO: Tragic Symphony #6 in a (Mahler), Live Performance, 10 April, 1955, Carnegie Hall; Symphony #4 in f (Vaughan Williams), Live Performance, 5 April, 1953, Carnegie Hall; w. Dorothy Dow: Erwartung (Sch�nberg), Live Performance, 18 Nov., 1951, Carnegie Hall; w. Zino Francescatti: Symphonie Espagnole (Lalo), Live Performance, 3 April, 1955, Carnegie Hall; w. Pietro Scarpini: Piano Concerto #2 in g (Prokofiev), Live Performance, 7 Nov., 1954, Carnegie Hall; Mitropoulos (Pf.) & Cond. NBC S. O. : Piano Concerto #3 in C (Prokofiev); w. Carmine Coppola (Fl) & Mischa Mischakoff (Vln): Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D (Bach), both Live Performances, 16 Dec., 1945; Mitropoulos Cond. Strings of the NBC S. O., w. Astrid Varnay (S): String Quartet #2 in f-sharp (Sch�nberg), Live Performance, 13 Dec., 1945. (E. U.) 4-Music & Arts 1214. Transfers by Lani Spahr. 017685121425 MUA1214.2 13843434 .00 48.99 .45 MUSIC & ARTS PROGRAM COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/3/5/0/1390537.jpg 4 3 N MUCZYNSKI / GERSHWIN / SOWERBY / DEL TREDICI MUSIC FROM AMERICA'S FIRST & SECOND CITIES 044747299723 CAV2997.2 14737664 .00 18.99 .23 CENTAUR COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 10/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/6/4/1/1571465.jpg 13 1 N ALWYN / WASS PIANO MUSIC 2 / 12 PRELUDES / CONTES BARBARES Alwyn' approach to writing for the piano was essentially that of a romantic, born out of the tradition exemplified by Liszt and Rachmaninov, through to the impressionism inherent in the music of Debussy and Ravel. Influences aside, however, Alwyn fou. 747313046478 NXS8570464.2 13956400 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/30/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/0/8/1/1411802.jpg 17 1 N ORVAD / DANISH NAT'L VOCAL ENSEMBLE CORONA 636943653425 OPSP8226534.2 13956240 .00 13.99 .25 DA CAPO OPEN SPACES COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 09/30/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/1/8/1/1411811.jpg 9 1 N WINKLER / PANIZZA / RABINOVA / MEYLEMANS PIANO CONCERTO / ELEMENTS CONCERTI David Winkler has composed some two hundred works to date, including operas, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, choral music and song cycles. In recent years, he has developed a unique and powerful style which at once connects with traditional a. 636943938324 NAAC8559383.2 13956608 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS AMERICAN COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 09/30/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/5/8/1/1411857.jpg 5 1 N FAURE / SAINT LOUIS SO / VONK SUITE FROM PELLEAS ET MELISSANDE / PELLEAS UND 827949032462 PNTA5186324.2 13959722 .00 12.99 .25 PENTATONE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 09/30/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/8/8/1/1411886.jpg 8 1 N CRUMB / MARTIN / ORCHESTRA 2001 / FREEMAN COMPLETE CRUMB EDITION 13 090404927522 BRI9275.2 14131455 .00 37.99 .18 BRIDGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/11/2008 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/84/1310684-2553261.jpg 3 2 N HAYDN / SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / GERMAN ANJA GERMAN PLAYS HAYDN SCHUBERT CHOPIN 809730413629 DVS24136.2 14134463 .00 14.99 .24 DIVERSIONS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/11/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/2/0/7/1437022.jpg 15 1 N SPOHR / FORDE ENSEMBLE DOUBLE STRING QUARTETS A champion of Haydn', Mozart' and Beethoven' chamber music, Louis Spohr also made a considerable contribution to this genre, composing 36 string quartets and four double quartets, these latter unique in the repertoire. 747313096374 NXS8570963.2 14653483 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/29/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/7/9/6/1556978.jpg 8 1 N HINDEMITH / ISOKOSKI / VITASALO DAS MARIENLEBEN: NEW VERSION 1948 761195114827 OND1148.2 14656576 .00 18.99 .25 ONDINE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/29/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/8/0/7/1557083.jpg 3 1 N FORSHAW / SANCTUARY ENSEMBLE / CLIFTON-GRIFFITH SONGS OF SOLACE Songs of Solace is a musical response to Julie Nicholson's book A Song for Jenny. The book details the harrowing events surrounding the 7/7 London bombings in which the lives of Julie's daughter Jenny and fifty-one others were cruelly taken. The writing and recording of this disc has been a 5 year process - gradually refining the material through live performances until it felt ready. The songs with words are all settings of texts quoted in the book or included in Jenny's funeral service. The songs without words are a more visceral response to having read and re-read the book: sorrow, questioning, anger, despair, grief, memory, love. 5065001015045 ITRA1005.2 19160566 .00 16.99 .21 INTEGRA RECORDS UK COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 10/09/2012 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/3/6/2026326.jpg 7 1 N IRELAND / GOULD PIANO TRIO PIANO TRIOS Naxos' acclaimed recordings of the music of John Ireland continue with this disc of the three piano trios and music for violin and piano. The tuneful Phantasie Trio of 1908 was one of the first of his works to bring him to public notice. 747313050772 NXS8570507.2 14433023 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 05/26/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/9/2/1512985.jpg 6 1 N GIUSTINI / COEN 12 SONATAS FOR FORTEPIANO Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia's (1685-1743) set of 12 sonatas published in Florence in 1732 was a remarkably important event in the history of music. It is the first set of works composed specifically for the fortepiano, an instrument in the early stages of it's development, and therefore these works can claim to being the ancestors of the piano sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Without these works that tested the new instrument being developed by Bartolemeo Christofori, the history of the modern piano might have been very different indeed. These sonatas, whilst nodding in the direction of Domenico Scarlatti and Archangelo Corelli in places, look forward to the new and exciting world of the stile gallante. This set Christoforo many challenges, as the sonatas, with their varied dynamics, tested the new instrument to it's limits. 842977040210 BRLT94021.2 15046864 .00 21.99 .41 BRILLIANT CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/23/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/7/0/8/1638071.jpg 0 3 Y IRELAND / ROWLANDS PIANO MUSIC 5020926311221 LYR3112.2 13809003 .00 37.99 .45 LYRITA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/1/9/8/3098910.jpg 7 3 N BRAHMS / WEITHAAS / AVENHAUS VIOLIN SONATAS 4260085530595 CAVM8553059.2 13809690 .00 19.99 .25 CAVI-MUSIC COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/5/7/3/1393756.jpg 2 1 N BACH,J.S. / SCHREIER / BSO / SANDERLING GREATEST WORKS 782124842529 BLN184252.2 13834302 .00 18.99 .22 BERLIN CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/7/7/3/1393778.jpg 3 2 N CRUMB / INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE COMPLETE GEORGE CRUMB EDITION 12 090404926129 BRI9261.2 13950026 .00 18.99 .25 BRIDGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/09/2008 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/66/1276966-2552981.jpg 3 1 N PINK TURTLE POP IN SWING 3448960250320 FRAS503.2 14908286 .00 20.99 .25 FREMEAUX & ASSOC. FR COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 01/12/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/5/6/9/1389651.jpg 1 1 N KRENEK / KORZHEV PIANO SONATAS NOS. 2 & 4 811691011295 PNX129.2 13853112 .00 18.99 .21 PHOENIX EDITION COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/26/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/4/4/2/1402440.jpg 14 1 N LIEUWEN / LARSEN / ENHAKE ENSEMBLE / RYAN GULFSTREAM: AMERICAN CHAMBER MUSIC Libby Larsen' Rodeo Queen of Heaven takes it's inspiration from religious iconography given a contemporary twist-a painting of a Madonna with gun-in a rhythmically vivacious tableau. 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 1 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.

“The Turkish pianist Idil Biret celebrated her 75th birthday in November 2016. To approach and honor this milestone, her own label (IBA), distributed by the now-venerable Naxos, has been releasing a series of comprehensive sets traversing her entire career. The word “comprehensive” is not used lightly; in this set alone, the ninth in the series, we hear performances from her earliest radio broadcasts in 1949 to July of 2016, allowing Biret’s changing approaches to these composers’ works full documentation and exploration; it’s quite a journey, and I have heard no other pianist that has made the complex but still intuitively simple interpretive decisions Biret has made. With these enduring compositions as multisided sculptures to be reexamined, the set constitutes a voyage through the developing art of a child prodigy. It goes a long way toward answering questions about where the preternaturally gifted interpreter goes when convention and career opportunity become subservient to artistic pursuit. May it be an example to those embarking on a similar journey.” (Prof. Marc Medwin)

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.

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.

From the outset of the 1st Symphony one feels that Idil Biret grasps the size of Beethoven' style. The polyphony is laid out in a relaxed way with little indulgence in point-making.

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.

In November 1949, at the age of eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF (Radiodiffusion Television Francaise) in Paris and made her first recordings; these were works by Couperin, Bach, Beethoven and Debussy. In the following decades she made nearly 100 LPs and CDs, released on ten record labels (Pretoria, Vega, Decca, Atlantic/Finnadar, Pantheon, EMI, Naxos, Marco Polo, Alpha, BMP) and many recordings for radio and television stations around the world. These included the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninoff as well as the Sonatas of Boulez and the Etudes of Ligeti. The Idil Biret Archive (IBA) is now bringing together her past and present recording; as the copyrights are obtained, old recordings no longer available commercially are being released together with her new recordings. The transcriptions by Liszt of Beethoven's Symphonies, originally recorded for EMI, and the newly recorded 32 Sonatas and all the Piano Concertos of Beethoven were released by IBA and also made available in a box set. All the Piano Concertos of Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Grieg and the nine LPs recorded for Atlantic/Finnadar in New York which include works by Boulez, Webern, Berg, Ravel and Stravinsky were also released. Among the recent new releases are Liszt's Etudes and the piano transcription of Berlioz's Harold en Italie, Schumann's Carnaval, Fantasie and other works, all five Piano Concertos of Hindemith and, in the Archive Edition, the early LPs made in France for Pretoria (Schumann, Brahms), Vega (Bartok, Prokofiev, Brahms, Beethoven) and Decca (Rachmaninoff). IBA is distributed worldwide by Naxos.

Idil Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 5

“The young Turkish pianist Idil Biret, who only turned twenty yesterday, reveals a masterly touch in the Handel Variations on this album. Here we are very clearly in the presence of what is known as a “natural”, a supremely talented musician. Taught by Jean Doyen and Jacques Février, she seems in this recording to have the innate elegance of the former and the clear authority of the latter. I make no bones about it: Idil Biret’s youthful prowess leaves me speechless… a virtuosity that overcomes every technical difficulty and flows so effortlessly that it puts certain, more “considered”, rival performances in the shade… I unreservedly applaud this album of excellent piano playing, a recording made with the emphasis perhaps just a touch less on charm than on brilliance. When it comes to the Variations on a Theme by Paganini , I shall quote Remy Stricker: “Only an exceptional pianistic genius could deliver the ideal version of such an inhuman work”... Idil Biret’s version is of such high quality that I have to speak in terms of this young pianist’s genius… I have nothing but admiration for the stunning brio with which she approaches the fast passages (starting with the first two variations of each Book!), indeed I confess to being captivated by it. Similarly, I was frequently enchanted by her poetic readings of some of the slow variations, which she plays with simplicity, avoiding effusive excess. All in all, this is an album to compete with Katchen’s.”

Astonishing piano recordings: Rachmaninov' Paganini Variations, Op. 43 for piano and orchestra is a popular work, but one almost never hears his equally estimable Corelli Variations, Op. 42 for solo piano.

No doubt remained as soon as the piano began to reverberate: On the stage was a first class musician and a maestro. SOVIETSKAIA KULTURA Moscow 1960"For some years now Idil Biret has been a widely-respected figure for music-lovers, witness her exemplary skill.

Turkish pianist Idil Biret' series of Beethoven Sonatas is emerging as a major statement in the field, entirely different in emphasis from that of AndrAs Schiff and the other cycles that have appeared in recent years.

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 demanding program with the power, concentration. 747313127177 NXS8571271.2 14507984 .00 14.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/30/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/8/2/5/1525282.jpg 4 1 N FAURE / RAVEL / HERSANT / MOZART / TRIO CERES TRIO CERES 812864018226 OEHM730.2 14554551 .00 14.99 .23 OEHMS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/30/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/9/2/5/1525296.jpg 93 1 N DUN / AUDI / WORKMAN / CASTLE / RICHARDSON / LUNDY MARCO POLO Charles Workman, Sarah Castle, Stephen Richardson, and Nancy Allen Lundy star in this production of the Tan Dun opera with the composer conducting the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Cappella Amsterdam. 809478070290 BOPU7029BR 14508608 .00 42.99 .25 BBC / OPUS ARTE BLU-RAY CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 06/30/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/4/3/5/1525343.jpg 66 1 N HANDEL / MAUCH / L'ARPA FESTANTE / VOSKULIEN NINE GERMAN ARIAS 409350834264 CARU83426.2 14155383 .00 20.99 .14 CARUS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/09/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/2/8/8/1448827.jpg 4 1 N PALESTRINA / DE RORE / MUSICA SECRETA SACRED HEARTS & SECRET MUSIC This CD stands on it's own merits as an exceptional program of early sacred music, transcribed for and performed by the ethereally beautiful voices of Musica Secreta and Celestial Sirens. However, like their earlier CD (dda25062) it has an added rationale, as the 'virtual sound-track' to the superb new novel 'Sacred Hearts', by Sarah Dunant. 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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' gentle.

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.

To play Beethoven' Piano Sonata in G major, op.31 no. 1 in front of and 'in the shadow of' Wilhelm Backhaus, on his 85th birthday, must certainly be the highest demand on a young interpreter.