Chopin: Complete piano works - Works for piano and orchestra - Idil Biret (1999)

Idil biret's Chopin recordings first released in 1991/92 received very favourable reviews. The eminent musicologist Henry Louis de La Grange wrote in Le Nouvel Observateur in France "Idil Biret, this great pianist is playing Chopin in its entirety in a breathtaking interpretation. One could not imagine that the Ballades, Preludes, Sonatas, Scherzi, Polonaises,Nocturnes, Mazurkas and the Concertos would today find and interpreter of this dimension". Germany's most important music critic Joachim Kaiser writing in the Bunte Magazine put Biret's interpretation of Chopin among the best available versions. In the US, Igor Kipnis wrote in Stereophile that Biret's complete Chopin edition stood among the highest echelons of contemporary Chopin playing. The readers of the Classic CD magazine in the United Kingdom selected Biret's Chopin preludes among the best recordings of 1993. In 1995 Biret's complete editon received in Poland a "Grand Prix du Disque Frederic Chopin" awarded once in every five years (there were 46 entries that year and two were given prizes).

Chopin:
-Complete works for piano
-Complete works for piano and orchestra

Idil Biret, piano
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Stankovsky, conductor
Recording: 1990-1992
Release: 1999

Tracks:
CD1:
-Four Ballades
-Berceuse, Op.57
-Trois Nouvelles etudes, Op.posth
-Fantasie, Op.49
-Gallop marquis
-Largo
-Marche Funebre
-Cantabile

CD2:
-Twelve etudes, Op.10
-Twelve etudes, Op.25

CD3:
-Mazurkas No.1 - No.26

CD4:
-Mazurkas No.27 - No.51

CD5:
-Nocturnes No.1 - No.10
-Nocturnes No.20 - No.21

CD6:
-Nocturnes No.11 - No.19

CD7:
-Piano sonatas No.1 - No.3

CD8:
-Polonaises No.1 - No.7

CD9:
-Polonaises No.8 - No.16
-Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op.22

CD10:
-Preludes, Op.28
-Prelude, Op.posth
-Prelude, Op.45
-Barcarolle, Op.60
-Bolero, Op.19
-Two Bourrees
-Wiosna
-Feuille d'Album
-Fugue

CD11:
-Four Rondos
-Mazurkas No.52 - No.57
-Variations brillantes
-Variations sur un theme national allemande
-Variations Puritains de Bellini
-Variations souvenir de Paganini
-Variations Vierhändig (with Martin Sauer, 2nd pianist)

CD12:
-Four Scherzos
-Four Impromptus
-Allegro de concert, Op.46

CD13:
-Nineteen Waltzes
-Contredanse
-Trois Escossaises, Op.72
-Tarantelle, Op.43

CD14:
-Two Piano concertos

CD15:
-Fantasia on polish airs, Op.13
-Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op.22
-Variation on 'La ci darem la mano', Op.2
-Krakowiak, Op.14