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Idil Biret first made a professional recording in 1959 performing works by Brahms and Schumann. That moment led to a 75-year recording career, now collected in an enormous superset. These critically-acclaimed recordings won many awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque Frederic Chopin and Diapason d'Or. This set contains more than sixty works for piano and orchestra including all the major works as well as many concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach, Bartok, Prokofiev, Saygun, Schoenberg, Shostakovich and others. The complete solo piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninoff are in the set as well as all the 32 Piano Sonatas by Beethoven, the 48 Preludes and Fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach and all the major solo works of Schumann and Liszt. There are many piano transcriptions by Liszt including Beethoven's nine symphonies, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Harold in Italy, as well as Brahms' Third and Fourth Symphonies that Biret transcribed herself. This 'superset' commemorates both Idil Biret's 75th anniversary and her epic career on the concert stage over the last 70 years.
