Conductor(s): Gibbons, John
Artist(s): Biret, Idil
Label: Idil Biret Archive
Genre: Concerto
Period: Classical
Catalogue No: 8.571349-50
Barcode: 747313134977
Release Date: 06/2019

MOZART, W.A.: Piano Concertos Nos. 15, 24, 25 and 27 (Biret Concerto Edition, Vols. 7-8)

“Miss Biret was soloist in an entrancing performance of Mozart’s concerto K. 482 with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Mlle Nadia Boulanger. The variety of her playing its finely-shaded gradations and brilliant but never mechanical figurations, revealed her as already a remarkable artist. Not for many hears has a Hallé (Manchester) audience heard such perfectly balanced Mozart playing…No words can describe the wondrous finale, with its mixture of gaiety and anguish. This was a performance in which every note counted for its full value.” – Daily Telegraph UK 1963

“Idil Biret is one of the few women pianists who has been able to assert her position on the world stages for decades. Biret plays here the works of … Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Concertos K.271, 415, 450, 453, 466, 491) and with these recording proves once again that she belongs among the greatest pianists of her time.” – Frölich & Kaufmann Germany 2017

Tracklist

Disc 1
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
1 I. Allegro 11:33
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
2 II. Andante 06:40
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
3 III. Allegro 08:34
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
4 I. Allegro 16:10
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
5 II. Larghetto 07:47
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
6 III. Allegretto 09:53
Biret, Idil (piano)
London Mozart Players (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
Disc 2
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
1 I. Allegro maestoso 15:52
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
2 II. Andante 07:44
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
3 III. Allegretto 09:38
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
4 I. Allegro 15:24
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
5 II. Larghetto 08:28
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)
6 III. Rondo: Allegro 10:07
Biret, Idil (piano)
Worthing Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbons, John (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 02:07:50