Best of Turkish Piano Music/ Various - Best of Turkish Piano MusicIn November 1949, at the age of eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF (Radiodiffusion Television Francaise) in Paris and made her first recordings; these were works by Couperin, Bach, Beethoven and Debussy. In the following decades she made nearly 100 LPs and CDs, released on ten record labels (Pretoria, Vega, Decca, Atlantic Finnadar, Pantheon, EMI, Naxos, Marco Polo, Alpha, BMP) and many recordings for radio and television stations around

Torquato Tasso will reveal new delights for the eye and ear and so become one of the finest instances of Donizetti at his most experimental and charismatic

was commissioned by the new king to compose the music for this grand ceremony which was due to be held at Westminster Abbey

The rare single is presented here

In this elite society he mingled with such names as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona

as he returned home to Lebanon a changed man with a newly inspired musical vision

with it's walking bass and Neapolitan harmonies

The album is completed by the delicate acoustic 'Capitoline Venus'

a native of New Orleans

In the 1880s (Tchaikovsky's Op

Sno Babies depicts the grim realities of addiction and it's effects on a middle-class suburban town

the circle is one of inclusion

with great enthusiasm