Artist: Various Artists

Title: Best of Turkish Piano Music

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2021

Label: Idil Biret Archive

UPC: 747313405831

Genre: Classical

Album Tracks

1. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34-Deciso-Moderato-Vivo-Animato-Meno Mosso-Cadenza: Rubato-Deciso-Moderato-Vivo-Molto Vivo
2. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34-Andante Con Moto-Sostenuto-Tempo Primo
3. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34-Allegro Assai
4. Six Preludes from 12 Preludes on Aksak Rhythms, Op. 45-No. 1
5. Six Preludes from 12 Preludes on Aksak Rhythms, Op. 45-No. 2
6. Six Preludes from 12 Preludes on Aksak Rhythms, Op. 45-No. 3
7. Six Preludes from 12 Preludes on Aksak Rhythms, Op. 45-No. 4
8. Six Preludes from 12 Preludes on Aksak Rhythms, Op. 45-No. 5
9. Six Preludes from 12 Preludes on Aksak Rhythms, Op. 45-No. 6
10. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15-Moderato-Adagio
11. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15-Largo
12. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15-Allegro Moderato-Scherzo
13. Ballade, Op. 11
14. Country Colours, BK II - Three Pieces for Piano
1. Piano Concerto-Allegro
2. Piano Concerto-Andante
3. Piano Concerto-Scherzo
4. Piano Concerto-Andnate-Allegro
5. Piano Sonata-Allegro
6. Piano Sonata-Adagio Molto Sostenuto
7. Piano Sonata-Allegro
8. Ostinato - Five Pieces for Children-The Village Band
9. Ostinato - Five Pieces for Children-Elegy for a Broken Toy
10. Ostinato - Five Pieces for Children-Cannibal Dance
11. Ostinato - Five Pieces for Children-The Sad Child
12. Ostinato - Five Pieces for Children-The Happy Child
13. 6 Preludes-Tocatta
14. 6 Preludes-Siciliano
15. 6 Preludes-Praeludia Canonica
16. 6 Preludes-Due Lirice: Madrigale, Blues
17. 6 Preludes-[Untitled]
18. 6 Preludes-Alle Francese
19. Session
1. Variations on An Istanbul Folk Song, "Kâtibim"
2. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 64-Allegro
3. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 64-Larghetto
4. Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 64-Allegro
5. Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 57-Allegretto
6. Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 57-Larghetto Espressivo
7. Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 57-Allegro
1. Six Movements for Piano, Op. 86-Ecstatic Black Sea Fisherman
2. Six Movements for Piano, Op. 86-Scorpion Wedding
3. Six Movements for Piano, Op. 86-The Wind and the Rose
4. Six Movements for Piano, Op. 86-At the Frontier of the Unknown
5. Six Movements for Piano, Op. 86-Allegro Barbaro
6. Six Movements for Piano, Op. 86-Delana's Lament
7. Tribute to Franz List, Op. 77
8. Grand March for Sultan Abdülmecid

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 Rachmaninov 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. The present album is a showcase of Turkish Piano Music and is made up of recordings made between 1958 and 2021. IBA is distributed worldwide by Naxos.