Earl Wild - The Complete RCA Album Collection on 5 CDs

Die lange, facettenreiche Karriere des US-amerikanischen Pianisten Earl Wild (1915-2010) umfasst beinahe ein Jahrhundert: von der nachhaltig prägenden Jazz-Ära der Goldenen Zwanziger über seinen Auftritt als erster, konzertgebender Pianist im TV bis hin zu seiner Online-Performance per Stream. Zu seinem Einhundertjahr-Jubiläum des legendären Musikers ist nun die limitierte Box »The Complete RCA Album Collection« in einem hochwertigen 5-CD-Set erhältlich, mit Werken von Gershwin, Liszt, Mozart, Schwarwenka, Glinka-Balakireff, Medtner, D'Albert, Paderewski, Steiner und Händel.

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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 5-CD set.

In the 1930s Wild left his native Pittsburgh to immerse himself in New York's vibrant freelance music scene, where he studied with the great Busoni pupil Egon Petri. Wild joined the NBC network as a staff pianist, and participated in a highly acclaimed broadcast of the Rhapsody in Blue under Arturo Toscanini's baton. Although his repertoire embraced the piano's entire history, Wild gained principal renown as an authentic master and ardent advocate of the Romantic style. He helped bring virtuoso transcriptions back into favor, and made many of his own ingenuous contributions to the genre. He continued to concertize, record and teach up until his early nineties.

Earl Wild – The Complete RCA Album Collection contains five CDs in a clamshell box with booklet. 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.