Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 21 - Waltzes & Dances

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Label
Idil Biret Archive
Release Date
December 6, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Bela Bartok, Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Fritz Kreisler, Franz Liszt, Ilhan Mim
    • PERFORMER
      Idil Biret
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 06, 2024
    • UPC
      747313142873
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8571428
    • LABEL
      Idil Biret Archive
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Tarantelle in A-Flat Major, Op. 43

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    2. Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique: Episode de la vie d'un artiste, S470/R134: II. Un bal

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: İdil Biret

    3. Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy supplement, S162/R10: Venezia e Napoli: No. 3. Tarantella

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: İdil Biret

    4. La valse (version for piano)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: İdil Biret

    5. La plus que lente

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: İdil Biret

    6. Liebesleid (arr. S. Rachmaninov for piano)

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Performer: İdil Biret

    7. Valse pour les enfants

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: İdil Biret

    8. 3 Movements from Petrushka: No. 1. Danse russe (Russian Dance)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: İdil Biret

    9. Román népi táncok (Romanian Folk Dances), BB 68

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: İdil Biret

    10. Mikrokosmos, BB 105, Vol. 6: Nos. 148-153. 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: İdil Biret

    11. Pieces Sentimentales

      Composer: İlhan Mimaroğlu

      Performer: İdil Biret

    12. Künstlerleben, Op. 316 (arr. L. Godowsky for piano)

      Composer: Johann Strauss II

      Performer: İdil Biret


Idil Biret wanted to record the many waltz transcriptions of Godowsky and others. Chief among these was the transcription of the Johann Strauss' waltz Kiinstlerleben by Godowsky which she had performed at many concerts in the l 970s and the Blue Danube Waltz. However, there was another project scheduled before that; four Haydn Sonatas, some of the most beautiful among the many he composed. When Idil suddenly fell ill in 2021 both projects were abandoned. Then, miraculously a stupendous recording of her performance of Kiinstlerleben in New York in December 1975 surfaced on the internet which led to reembarking on the project in a somewhat different way. The result is this CD, a compilation of Biret's past performances of Waltzes and Dances from many composers including Bartok, Berlioz, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Ravel, Stravinsky and, of course, Leopold Godowsky - his piano transcription of the Strauss waltz Kiinstlerleben "Metamorphosis on Themes from Artist's Life"