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Product Description

Scintillating – Exciting – Riveting – Powerful – Awesome – Stupendous performances of some of the most difficult piano showpieces ever written. Earl Wild bedazzles with his keyboard pyrotechnics, charms us with his musicianship and always impresses us with his élan. The virtuosic Liszt, Dohnányi, Tchaikovsky, Moszkowski, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and d’Albert compositions come alive in this 2 disc collection that every piano enthusiast will want to own! (ADD & DDD)Recorded: 11/63, 10/64, 1966, 4/67, 4/68, 6/69, 1976, 10/78 and 12/85. Mastered using 20-Bit State-of-the-Art Technology — HDCD Encoded

Review

Few pianists can claim such precision of touch, astringent clarity, wide range of color, or ability — at his most dazzling. -- Fanfare, May/June 1999

Wild demonstrates a frightening control of the digital demands. Horowitz was an admirer of Wild's playing. -- Muse Inc., May 1999

Wild knows how to make virtuosity sound musical rather than stunt-like. It's taste and proportion not banging, bombast. -- Harold C. Schonberg, ARG, May/June 1999

36:T56f,Earl Wild was always an exceptional virtuoso but also a showman of sorts. I think he would have been quite comfortable back in the days of Liszt, playing in the salons and impressing all of the wealthy ladies just as Liszt did. He was a music composer and transcriber of considerable talent as revealed by his transcription of the Swan Lake Pas de Quatre. Fortunately for us, Earl Wild was finally and most importantly a consummate musician of amazingly varied repertoire interests as this 2-disc album clearly demonstrates. And he never slowed down, playing his last recital in 2008 at the grand old age of 92! Now, that's some feat.Wild was known for the beautiful tone he could prod