14-11-2011- “Idil Biret’s new Liszt album (2010) prompts a reappraisal of her extraordinary talent…In her Sonata…you will hear playing of a formidable power and assurance…There is no mistaking her lightning reflexes in the second of the Paganini Etudes and her vivo in the imitation sautille bowing of No 4 would make even Heifetz envious. Biret’s brilliant, iron-clad Steinway is well recorded and…in her Liszt, there is stunning proficiency and a forbidding manner very much her own.” •GRAMOPHONE (UK) / Bryce Morrison
Works:
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Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera
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Liszt: Douze Grandes Etudes, S137
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Liszt: Etude en douze exercises, S136/R1
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Liszt: Grandes Études de Paganini (6), S. 141
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Liszt: Harold en Italie, transcription for piano (and viola) after Berlioz, S472
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Liszt: Ouvertüre zu R Wagners Tannhäuser S442
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Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
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Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125
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Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
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Liszt: Piano Transcriptions of Schubert Songs
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Liszt: Symphonie Fantastique, S470 (from Berlioz, Op. 14)
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Liszt: Three Concert Studies, S144/R5: Un lamento; La leggierezza; Un sospiro
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Liszt: Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra
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Liszt: Two Concert Studies, S145/R6: Gnomenreigen; Waldesrauschen