Various Artists - Best of Idil Biret"The Turkish pianist Idil Biret celebrated her 75th birthday in November 2016. To approach and honor this milestone, her own label (IBA), distributed by the now venerable Naxos, has been releasing a series of comprehensive sets traversing her entire career. The word "comprehensive" is not used lightly; in this set alone, the ninth in the series, we hear performances from her earliest radio broadcasts in 1949 to July of 2016, allowing Biret's changing

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