Idil Biret, the pianist on this album, began her recording career at age eight in 1949, making her first recordings for ORTF in Paris.
Recording & Production
Pianist Idil Biret and cellist Roderic von Bennigsen, who met as students of Nadia Boulanger, reunited for this recording of Brahms' Cello Sonatas after a long interval.
Performer Biography
Roderic von Bennigsen, the cellist, founded the International Humanitas Association and gave peace concerts in Dubrovnik during the war in Yugoslavia, for which he received the United Nations Medal of Honour.
Recording & Production
The Idil Biret Archive (IBA) is a project to release her old and new recordings, distributed worldwide by Naxos on CD and digitally.
Performer Biography
Idil Biret's more than eighty records have sold nearly three million copies, including the first recordings of Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies.
Performer Biography
Idil Biret was a pupil of Alfred Cortot and a lifelong disciple of Wilhelm Kempff, and graduated from the Paris Conservatoire at age fifteen with three first prizes.
Performer Biography
Roderic von Bennigsen, the cellist, played his first solo cello concerto with orchestra at age twelve and was influenced by great teachers like Pablo Casals and Pierre Fournier.
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