Idil Biret Edition Vol.7 | Idil Biret Edition 8571281

Idil Biret Edition Vol.7

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Label: Idil Biret Edition

Cat No: 8571281

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 27th September 2010

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About

No doubt remained as soon as the piano began to reverberate: on the stage was a first class musician and a maestro.” - Sovietskaia Kultura, Moscow (1960)

For some years now Idil Biret has been a widely-respected figure for music-lovers, witness her exemplary interpretations of Scriabin, Bartók and Prokofiev. The masterly way in which she marshals her approach to, above all, works of our century has led to a stylistic unity of written score and interpretation which, far beyond the conventional adulation lavished on stars, has concentrated attention on Idil Biret as an artistic force of outstanding merit.” - Die Welt, Germany (1979)

The campus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, 50 miles north of Philadelphia, was where you needed to be on Sunday November 14, if you are a lover of transcendental piano-playing. Idil Biret, the great Turkish pianist, gave a recital devoted entirely to 20th Century works and demonstrated in this perhaps surprising context the true meaning of the word “virtuosity”: not flashy superficiality, but simply a technical command so complete that the performer can, as it were, take the solution of problems for granted and concentrate entirely on musical issues… If 20th-century music were always performed like this, it would surely not suffer from the hearer-unfriendly reputation that still too often bedevils it.” - Musicweb USA (2004)

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