Idil Biret – Paris Recordings

After listening for a while (to orchestral music on the radio) Idil would detect the main melody and then play it on the piano with one finger. Afterwards, when she reached the age of four, she would play these with two hands and with the correct harmony. Bach preludes and fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, for example, which even the talented musicians took considerable time to study and memorise, were mastered by Idil in only a few days after listening once or twice, after which she would play these without a single wrong note. (Leman Biret, 1988)

1. Radio Interview
2. Solfegietto
3. Soeur Monique
4. Tic-Toc-Choc
5. Sonata in G minor K12
6. Bagatelle Op. 33 No. 1
7. Prelude et Fugue C sharp major (The Well Tempered Clavier Book I No. 3)
8. Fantasie Chromatique et Fugue
9. Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 6
10. Children's Corner Suite~Gradus ad Parnassum
11. Children's Corner Suite~Le petit Berger
12. Radio Presentation
13. Fantasiestücke Op. 12~Des Abends / Aufschwung / Warum / In der nacht / Traumeswirren

Label: Naxos

Catalog: 5

Genre: Classical Artists