Earl Wild: The Complete RCA Album Collection
Earl Wild (piano), Robert Bloom (oboe)
Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, Erich Leinsdorf, André Kostelanetz, Eugène Ormandy, Charles Gerhardt
Earl Wild: The Complete RCA Album Collection
Earl Wild (piano), Robert Bloom (oboe)
Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, Erich Leinsdorf, André Kostelanetz, Eugène Ormandy, Charles Gerhardt
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About
The long and multi-faceted career of Earl Wild (1915–2010) spanned nearly a century, from his formative years in the jazz-age Roaring Twenties to becoming both the first pianist to give a recital on American television and to stream a performance over the Internet. To celebrate Wild’s 2015 centenary year, Sony Classical releases the legendary pianist’s complete albums for RCA Victor and Columbia Masterworks in a xbudget-priced 5 CD set. The contents and sleeves replicate each album’s original LP releases, and, to ensure discographical completeness, include three rare bonus selections new to CD. Two discs contain Wild’s standard-setting Gershwin interpretations, while another offers ebullient readings of Liszt’s First Concerto and Hungarian Fantasy. Wild’s passion for uncovering forgotten yet worthy Romantic fare resulted in the first stereo-era recordings of Scharwenka’s First Concerto plus Paderewski’s A minor Concerto and Fantaisie polonaise.
Contents and tracklist
- Earl Wild (piano), Pasquale Cardillo (clarinet), Boston Pops Orchestra
- Arthur Fiedler
- Earl Wild (piano), Columbia Symphony Orchestra
- André Kostelanetz
- Earl Wild (piano), Columbia Symphony Orchestra
- André Kostelanetz
- Earl Wild (piano), Robert Bloom (oboe)
