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My teacher Nadia Boulanger was absolutely against Rachmaninov's music, and when I was asked to play the Third Concerto, this was for her the worst catastrophe that could possibly happen... But, I find a great nobility in Rachmaninov's music, and when I worked with Mlle Boulanger on his Corelli Variations, she started changing her opinion completely.' - Idil Biret in her memoirs, 2006'Astonishing piano recordings: Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations, Op. 43 for piano and orchestra is a popular work, but one almost never hears his equally estimable Corelli Variations, Op. 42 for solo piano. These Decca recordings by the young Turkish pia - Joachim Kaiser, Suddeutsche Zeitung, 1974'Idil Biret's complete Rachmaninov is unsurpassed for aristocratic, passionate pianism and exacting musicianship.' - Richard Dyer, Boston Globe, 2000""