Idil Biret Archive

  • Liszt: Complete Beethoven Symphony Transcriptions

    $42.99

    “Listening to Beethoven through Liszt’s keyboard transcriptions can put a fresh perspective on these familiar symphonies. Idil Biret has taken on the complete cycle, and I admire her taste, technique and sound musical decisions.” —...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2011

  • Idil Biret: LP Originals Edition 1959-1986 [14-CD Set]

    $74.99

    “We are in the presence of one of the greatest virtuosos of our time. I do not see in her generation any other pianist who possesses an equal mastery of the keyboard, in the service...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 24, 2013

  • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas; Piano Concertos, Symphonies / Biret, Wit, Bilkent Symphony

    $104.99

    “A supreme mastery of tempi, sonorities, polyphony and of course technique permits Biret to embrace all the moods of the great Beethoven and gives her playing a symphonic depth rarely heard until now.” — Le...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2011

  • Beethoven Edition, Vol. 20 / Idil Biret
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    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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 21, 2020

  • Turkish Piano Music (The Best of)
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    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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 10, 2021

  • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 22 / Idil Biret, Sakpinar, Bursa Regional State Symphony

    $14.99

    On this release, the tenth volume in the Idil Biret Concerto Edition, Idil Biret performs W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 21 and 22 alongside the Bursa Regional State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ender Sakpinar. ‘Miss...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 06, 2020

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at and exhibition - Glazunov: Piano Sonata No. 2 - Balakirev: Islamey / Biret

    $12.99

    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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 24, 2021

  • Idil Biret: Archive Edition, Vol. 19

    $14.99

    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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 03, 2020

  • Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit / Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 20

    $14.99

    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...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 29, 2021

  • Idil Biret: The Complete Studio Recordings

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    When Idil Biret went to France in 1949 she generated as much excitement as she had earlier done in Turkey. In the fall of that year the French Radio RTF made an interview with Idil...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 22, 2018

  • Best Of Chamber Music / Idil Biret
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    Idil Biret’s chamber music performances are relatively rare. Most importantly, she played Beethoven’s violin Sonatas Nos. 5, 7 and 9 with Yehudi Menuhin at the Istanbul Festival in July 1973. In 1975, she played all...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 12, 2021

  • Best of Beethoven / Idil Biret
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    $20.99 $32.99

    Idil Biret’s nineteen volume Beethoven Edition consisting of the thirty two sonatas, five concertos, the Choral Fantasy and the piano transcriptions of the nine symphonies (by Franz Liszt) was recorded in fifty two days during...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 14, 2020

  • Beethoven: Sonatas: Pathetique - Moonlight - Waldstein - Appassionata / Biret [DVD]
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    $13.99 $21.99

    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...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: September 10, 2021

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