Earl Wild Archive
Toscanini Conducts American Music, Volume 1 = LOEFFLER: Memories of My Childhood; CRESTON: Choric Dance No. 2; GOULD: Lincoln Legend; GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue – Earl Wild, piano/ Benny Goodman, clarinet/ NBC Symphony Orchestra/ Arturo Toscanini – Pristine Audio
Arturo Toscanini leads a wartime concert that celebrates the American musical character. Toscanini Conducts American Music, Volume 1 = LOEFFLER: Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian Village); CRESTON: Choric Dance No. 2; GOULD: Lincoln Legend; GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue – Earl Wild, piano/ Benny Goodman, clarinet/ NBC Symphony Orchestra/ Arturo Toscanini – Pristine Audio PASC 495, 54:03 [www.pristineclassical.com] ****: Andrew Rose restores to full, intensely resonant sonics the live NBC Symphony broadcast from Studio 8-H of 1 November 1942, dedicated to American music by way of lifting the morale at the front during wartime. Rose notes that prior to this concert, only the Loeffler work had enjoyed attention from Toscanini; and, after this concert, none of the selections was to receive a second session, a trait that lies closer to Stokowski than to Toscanini. The Loeffler piece has a curious history, having been premiered in this country by Frederick Stock in 1924. Loeffler led a rustic, village life in the Ukraine village of Smela; but the family left for Germany, where his father ran a sugar factory. When Bismarck sought the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, Loeffler’s father joined an organization in opposition, suffered conviction and imprisonment in […]
Leon Fleisher – All the Things You Are [TrackList follows] = Bridge
Keyboard veteran Leon Fleisher returns with a mostly left-hand-only recital; often paying homage to his own repute.
EARL WILD – The Complete Transcriptions and Original Piano Works = Giovanni Doria Miglietta, piano – Piano Classics
A young Italian piano virtuoso meets Earl Wild on his home ground of classics, jazz and Gershwin and they shake talented hands.
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris – Earl Wild, p. (Rhapsody)/ Boston Pops Orch./ Arthur Fiedler – RCA Victor/ Analogue Prod.
Terrific three-channel hi-res performances, but cheaper and with three more selections on the original RCA SACD.
Joyce Yang – Wild Dreams = RACHMANINOFF: Dreams; Vocalise; Piano Sonata No. 2; HINDEMITH: In einer Nacht – excerpts; BARTOK: Out of Doors Suite; SCHUMANN: Fantasiestuecke – Joyce Yang, piano – Avie
Joyce Yang’s second album for Avie presents her notion of dreams: wild, passionate, ardent, and sincere, at once.
“American Piano Concertos” = GERSHWIN: Concerto in F; COPLAND: Concerto for Piano and Orch.; BARBER: Concerto for Piano and Orch. – Xiayin Wang, p./ Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./ Peter Oundjian – Chandos
An excellent choice of three American piano concertos in superb performances and sonics.
EARL WILD: The Piano Music of Earl Wild – Xiayin Wang, Piano – Chandos
Not since Oscar Peterson performed “George Gershwin’s Song-Book” (from 1934) have there been so many intoxicating flourishes in those famous dozen.