Schwetzingen Festival 1999

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Label
Idil Biret Archive
Release Date
January 23, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederic Chopin
    • PERFORMER
      Idil Biret
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 23, 2026
    • UPC
      747313143276
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8571432-35
    • LABEL
      Idil Biret Archive
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    2. 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    3. 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    4. Polonaise No. 7 in A-Flat Major, Op. 61, "Polonaise-fantaisie"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    5. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    6. Nocturne No. 16 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    7. 12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    8. Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    9. Rondo à la mazur in F Major, Op. 5

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    10. Polonaise No. 9 in B-Flat Major, Op. 71, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    11. Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante in E-Flat Major, Op. 22 (version for piano)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    12. Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2 - Waltz No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, "Grande valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    14. Mazurka No. 32 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3 - 3 Mazurkas, Op. 59

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    15. 3 Ecossaises, Op. 72, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    16. Prelude No. 25 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    17. Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    18. 12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Performer: İdil Biret

    20. Le chemin de fer, Op. 27

      Composer: Charles-Valentin Alkan

      Performer: İdil Biret

    21. 4 Impromptus, Opp. 29, 36, 51, 66

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret


The Schwetzingen Festival concerts were dedicated to Chopin in 1999 on the 150th anniversary of his death. Four pianists were invited to the event. Three of them, Lilya Zilberstein, Anatole Ugorski and Andrei Gavrilov were 'stars' of Deutsche Grammophon. The fourth was Idil Biret who had not attained 'star' status as it was only available to those with contracts with the so-called "major" record labels. But, she had been the first pianist ever to record the complete works of Chopin for solo piano and with piano and orchestra for Naxos, received a Grand Prix du Disque Frederic Chopin in Warsaw in 1995 for this and was to be decorated with one of the highest orders of Poland by President Kaczynsky in 2007. Idil Biret did something no other pianist could do. Dr. Peter Stieber wrote: "Your own Chopin evening was then the breath-taking testimony of a great artist. We all could experience together how in your hands the wonderful music of Chopin begun truly to blossom."