EARL WILD - THE COMPLETE RCA ALBUM COLLECTION (5 CDS)

Earl Wild: The Complete RCA Album Collection

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.

Albert, E:
Scherzo in F Sharp Major, Op. 16, No. 2

Balakirev:
Reminiscences of Glinka's opera 'A Life for the Czar'

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
An American in Paris, tone poem
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
Piano Concerto in F major
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
I Got Rhythm Variations
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
Cuban Overture
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler

Handel:
Sonata in C minor for oboe and continuo, HWV366, Op. 1 No. 8
Robert Bloom (oboe)

Liszt:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, André Kostelanetz
Fantasy on Hungarian Folk-tunes, S123
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, André Kostelanetz

Medtner:
Improvisation No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 31/1

Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' - Andante
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugène Ormandy

Paderewski:
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17
London Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
Fantaisie polonaise sur des themes originaux, Op. 19
London Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler

Scharwenka, X:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 32
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

Steiner:
Symphonie Moderne
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt