Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists - Fractured Atlas Links Directory Agents and Managers (7). biret, idil (4). Brendel, Alfred (3). Aleksander, AdamPolish/Canadian Classical pianist, includes biography and contact information. http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/links/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianis
Chopin, Frédéric (1810 - 1849) He was able to establish himself as a pianist and as a teacher of the Largo Troisnouvelles etudes/Galop Marquis Marche funebre/Cantabile idil biret, Piano, 1, http://www.smusic.com/naxos/chopin/chopin.htm
Extractions: Return to Great Composers Return to Grand Catalog Page For some ten years Chopin enjoyed a liaison with the writer George Sand, but broke with her during the last years of his life, brought to a close by the tuberculosis from which he had long suffered. His compositions, principally for the piano, make a remarkable use of the newly developed instrument, exploring its poetic possibilities while generally avoiding the more obvious ostentation of the Paris school of performers. Click on the Spinning CD when you are ready to order.
Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897) he maintained a long friendship with his widow, the pianist Clara Schumann BRAHMSPianoConcerto No.1 SCHUMANNIntroduction Allegro idil biret/Polish NRS http://www.smusic.com/naxos/brahms/brahms.htm
Extractions: Return to Great Composers Return to Naxos Catalog Page Born in Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player and his older seamstress wife, Brahms attracted the attention of Schumann, to whom he was introduced by the violinist Joachim, and after Schumann's death he maintained a long friendship with his widow, the pianist Clara Schumann, whose advice he always valued. Brahms eventually settled in Vienna, where to some he seemed the awaited successor to Beethoven. His blend of classicism in form with a romantic harmonic idiom made him the champion of those opposed to the musical innovations of Wagner and Liszt. In Vienna he came to occupy a position similar to that once held by Beethoven, his gruff idiosyncrasies tolerated by those who valued his genius. Click on the Spinning CD when you are ready to order.
Excite France - Répertoire - Pianists Bentzon, Niels Viggo@ ( 6) Bernstein, Leonard@ ( 1 9) biret, idil ( 2) Bolcom YoungAlbanian pianist living in London, the site includes biography, engagements http://www.excite.fr/directory/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists
INKPOT#55 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: CHOPIN Waltzes. Biret (Naxos) Included also are notes written by the pianist herself about Interpreting Chopin and her idea of the Chopin style of music The Waltzes With idil biret (Naxos). http://inkpot.com/classical/chopwaltzb.html
Extractions: [70'17"] budget-price by Ong Yong Hui The Waltzes by Chopin are not a very prominent series of pieces to listeners, and there are much fewer recordings of them than the famous Etudes or Nocturnes . There was the time when etudes ("studies") were simply finger exercises for the pianists or at most dazzling fireworks for the piano-bashing virtuosos like Liszt, as with his Transcendental Etudes . However, Chopin's poetic musical style gives his own Etudes an intimate touch that affected them, imbuing them with much more musical value. Similarly, his Waltzes, composed during the waltz craze in the late eighteenth century, transformed the dance music into something more delicate and gentle in accordance to his music style. "Look at these trees!" Liszt said, "The wind plays in the leaves, stirs up life among them, the tree remains the same, that is chopinesque rubato'. Liszt's illustration of Chopin's famed rubato touch coincides with the idea of the waltz form, where the bass have to play a steady beat to retain the rhythmic dance form while the "melodic lines should enjoy freedom of expression with fluctuations of speed". This clinical statement nevertheless proves to be true. The Waltzes express a wide gamut of ideas that ranges from boisterous dance movements to lyrical and smooth-flowing music. Yet with such a disparity, underlying these pieces is a strict waltz tempo and a concentration on the beat and meter which are perhaps not found in Chopin's other works.
Extractions: Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 by the composer himself, Sergei Rachmaninov (Naxos Historical) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 with Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 with Idil Biret (Naxos) Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 Piano Concertos Nos.1-4 featuring Earl Wild (Chandos) with Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa (BIS) The Ampico Rolls 1919-29 An Inktroduction with Recordings Recommendations The "Elegiac" Piano Trios with the Borodin Trio (Chandos) Music for Two Pianos : Suite No.2 op.17, Russian Rhapsody , and Symphonic Dances . With pianists Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko. Also features music by Medtner Orchestral Works:
Biret, Idil Top Arts Music Instruments Keyboard Piano Featured Sites. Sites. idil biret (1941) Outstanding pianist; turkish birth;current info and discography including collector's item and rare mp3files. http://alchoholism.gowebinfo.com/Top/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Piani
300+ Naxos Recommendations The young German pianist brings strongly projected playing to his reading of Rachmaninov,Sergei (18731943) Piano Collections biret, idil (pno) Complete Solo http://www.hbdirect.com/feb/nxs300e.cfm
Extractions: Performed by Martin Haselbock, produced by Wolfgang Rubsam, and featuring the curiously rare music of the German master Georg Muffat, this recording earns one of the most unqualified and enthusiastic recommendations ever printed in these pages. Even more happily, the disc is noted to be "Volume One". What a happy series this will be!
Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists/Biret,_Idil idil biret (1941) pianist of Turkish birth. Current information anddiscography including collector's item and rare MP3 files. URL http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Pia
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Pianist - Acapedia - Free Knowledge, For All A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very Wilhelm Backhaus;Daniel Barenboim; idil biret; Jorge Bolet; Alfred Brendel; Robert Casadesus; http://acapedia.org/aca/Pianist
Extractions: Crotchet Amazon UK AmazonUS Idil Biret has been making quite a name for herself with her series of recordings for Naxos. Having recorded much of the solo works for piano of Brahms she now tackles the two piano concerti with these Polish forces. This is in addition to her other recordings of Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Boulez. The Polish National Radio Orchestra under Antoni Wit is a major recording orchestral partnership for Naxos with a number of highly acclaimed recordings to their name. So how do these artists combine? Technically, there are absolutely no problems at all, with the accuracy of the playing and the recording quality being of very high quality. What I find totally missing is the massiveness and thrill of the power of the Brahms D Minor. We can hear this quite clearly on competitive versions such as Gilels / BPO / Jochum, Katchen / LSO / Monteux, to name two budget discs currently on offer at only slightly higher prices. Admittedly, both of these are older recordings and suffer accordingly, but both are of such a high quality that the difference is only marginal. The gains in performance however, are enormous.
Extractions: Crotchet Amazon UK Amazon USA Originally released as part of a twelve CD-boxed set which included Brahms' complete solo piano works, the two piano concertos and various works by Schumann and Schubert (Naxos 8.501201), Beret's version of the Brahms Second has now been allowed to breathe as a single issue. In a field as crowded as this, any new entrant should bring something special to this evergreen music (a price tag of a fiver does not qualify). There are so many better - Gilels/Jochum or Pollini/VPO/Abbado spring immediately to mind, for example. The recording strains at any dynamic level above a healthy forte, making for periodically uncomfortable listening (especially from screeching violins), just from an engineering standpoint. The recording dates from 1996, so it would seem that Naxos have (in general) pulled their socks up, at least to just over their ankles, since then. Musically, Biret takes the first movement expansively, but lacks the nobility and the ability for long-range musical thought to be able to convince. There are some splashes in the second movement, where detail also tends to get lost in the general unfocussed sound-picture.
Vindex, De Vindplaats Van Het Nederlandse Web Daniel@ Bentzon, Niels Viggo@ Bernstein, Leonard@ biret, idil Bolcom, William OmschrijvingFrench pianist page with biography, discography, repertoire and http://www.vindex.nl/dir/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists
Mypage20 TURKISH PERFORMERS idil biret pianist Suna Kan - Violinist Fazýl Say - pianist Composer Sefika Kutluer - Flutist Guher Suher Pekinel - Duo pianists http://www.geocities.com/isiltoksoz/mypage20.html
Leif Ove Andsnes - Featured Artist But again I would suggest Turkish pianist idil biret (Naxos) as a recommendablealternative. Hers is a complete recording of both works (EtudesTableaux opp. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5901/andsnes.htm
Extractions: generation in his native country. He entered the Bergen Music Conservatory in 1986, where he studied under Jiri Hlinka, and has through the past decade gradually fortified his position among the firsts of pianists. Andsnes has since his debut, appeared with several of the worlds principal orchestras, such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Boston Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philharmonia, and the Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra. He also enjoys a reputation as an outstanding recitalist, and has appeared at the most prestigious musical centras in London, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, etc. Leif Ove Andsnes has recieved numerous awards, including the Hindemith prize (Frankfurt 87), the Grieg prize
Editorial Musings On idil birets site there is an insightful article about some ofthis worldrenown pianists recording difficulties. The Making http://www.pianowomen.com/musings0801.html
Extractions: by Rose Eide-Altman , editor Have you heard the saying: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!"? That may be easier to do for some people than for others, but weve all had trying times which may have tempted us to give up our dreams and goals. This months editorial focuses on difficulties in the lives of three outstanding concert pianists with the wish that these amazing stories will encourage you when you feel like you have been handed more than your share of lemons. It was reading the new article last month about Maryla Jonas , and her overwhelming difficulties during and after World War II, that prompted me to share with you other stories that I have found in websites featured in "Women at the Piano". Last year, as I was browsing through
Classical Net Review - Brahms/Schumann - Piano Concertos/ idil biret has recorded the complete solo works of Chopin biret's D minor is one ofthe best current versions drama and tragedy and for the pianist's ability to http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/n/nxs54089a.html
Extractions: Naxos 8.554089 I cannot tell you how many evenings of pleasure this recording has given me. From the opening duet between horn and piano I knew I was in for a special experience. After comparisons with other recordings I now rate this as the finest I have ever heard. My references include: Richter with Leinsdorf and the Chicago Symphony on RCA (nla), Moravic with Belohlavek and the Czech Phil on Supraphon, Gilels and Joachim with the Berlin Philharmonic on DG and Barenboim with Barbirolli and the Vienna Philharmonic on EMI Forte. The orchestra is superb. The opening brings to mind Steinberg's story in his book The Concerto . "'Dream Mr. X,' I once heard a conductor say to his solo horn as they were about to begin a rehearsal of this concerto." (116) The author goes on to say that this soloist should be able to "muse".* The burnished horn player here made me think I was listening to the Vienna Philharmonic. I wish that Naxos had credited her/him as they did the solo cellist, Zdzislaw Lapinski. His (her?) playing offers other details that set this recording apart from the others. The recording is simply the best of the lot. The main thing that strikes me is the perfect balance, or relief as Stokowski called it, between the orchestra and piano. In the other recordings the orchestra is distant, in the case of the Richter and Leinsdorf it sounds like the orchestra is out in the hall. Add to that the fact that the conductor is self effacing to the point where the music is dull. The Gilels is better balanced but still misses some details in the orchestra and Joachim, while not as mundane as Leinsdorf, always impressed me as not much more than a Kapellmeister beating time. The Czech Philharmonic is one of the finest in the world, but they are so distantly recorded that it would be hard to find evidence in this recording to support that assertion. Barbirolli turns in a fine orchestral performance but Barenboim seems to lumber his way through it, pounding the piano instead of playing it.
