Idil Biret performs Liszt at St James's Church, London on Saturday 16th November 2019

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Idil Biret performs Liszt

Add to my Calendar 16-11-2019 19:30 16-11-2019 21:30 36 Idil Biret performs Liszt “One seldom hears such a lively, passionate and dynamic performance of the two Liszt piano concertos… Idil Biret's Liszt is masterly, powerful ....magnificently sounding…” Pizzicato Magazine, Luxembourg (2011)The Whitehall Orchestra is delighted to welcome back the world-renowned concert pianist Idil Biret, who has sold over 3 million records worldwide.  Idil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Nadia Boulanger, graduating at the age of fifteen with three first prizes.  She appeared with major orchestras including Boston Symphony, Leningrad Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus,London Symphony and Warsaw Philharmonic.She has received the Lili Boulanger memorial Award in Boston, the Harriet Cohen / Dinu Lipatti Gold Medal in London, the Polish Cavalry Cross of the Order of Merit, the Adelaide Ristori Prize in Italy, the French Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and the State Artist distinction in Turkey.Her more than one hundred records have sold in millions and include the first recordings of Liszt’s transcriptions of the ninesymphonies of Beethoven, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov, thethree Sonatas of Boulez, the Etudes of Ligeti, all the concertos of Hindemith and the Firebird piano transcription by Stravinsky, Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, 5 Concertos, LPs for Decca, Vega, EMI and Atlantic records as well as recently recorded concertos of Grieg, Liszt, Ravel, Saint-Säens, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Idil Biret’s complete studio recordings made since 1959 have been released in a set of 130 CDs in 2018.   St James's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St James's Church
Sussex Gardens
Paddington
London
W2 3UD
England

Saturday 16th November 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Franz Liszt – Piano Concerto no.2 in A major, S.125
Jean Sibelius – Symphony no.5 in E flat major, Op.82
~ Interval ~
Franz Liszt – Mazeppa, S.100
Franz Liszt – Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S.124

Performers

Idil Biret – Piano
Michael Nebe – Conductor
Christian Halstead – violin

Whitehall Orchestra

Programme Note

“One seldom hears such a lively, passionate and dynamic performance of the two Liszt piano concertos… Idil Biret's Liszt is masterly, powerful ....magnificently sounding…” Pizzicato Magazine, Luxembourg (2011)

The Whitehall Orchestra is delighted to welcome back the world-renowned concert pianist Idil Biret, who has sold over 3 million records worldwide.

Idil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Nadia Boulanger, graduating at the age of fifteen with three first prizes. She appeared with major orchestras including Boston Symphony, Leningrad Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus,
London Symphony and Warsaw Philharmonic.

She has received the Lili Boulanger memorial Award in Boston, the Harriet Cohen / Dinu Lipatti Gold Medal in London, the Polish Cavalry Cross of the Order of Merit, the Adelaide Ristori Prize in Italy, the French Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and the State Artist distinction in Turkey.
Her more than one hundred records have sold in millions and include the first recordings of Liszt’s transcriptions of the nine
symphonies of Beethoven, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov, the
three Sonatas of Boulez, the Etudes of Ligeti, all the concertos of Hindemith and the Firebird piano transcription by Stravinsky, Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, 5 Concertos, LPs for Decca, Vega, EMI and Atlantic records as well as recently recorded concertos of Grieg, Liszt, Ravel, Saint-Säens, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Idil Biret’s complete studio recordings made since 1959 have been released in a set of 130 CDs in 2018.

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