We commend this set to you if you have ever wondered why 19th-century audiences were so enraptured by Liszt. Highlights include "Un Sospiro," the "Mephisto Polka," Liszt's transcription of Bach's ... (Read More)
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All of the pieces in this wonderful 2003 recital—recorded in Holy Trinity Church in Buffalo, NY—are first recordings for Wild. They include four Chopin impromptus, Balakirev's Sonata No. 1, ... (Read More)
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"I was only six when I first heard Rachmaninov perform," recalls Wild, "and I attended his concerts regularly for the next 22 years until his death in 1943." Rachmaninov himself left only two ... (Read More)
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Reissued in audiophile sound, this delightful, Grammy-winning album includes the Serenade from Mozart's Don Giovanni, a suite of five songs from Disney's Snow White, and music by ... (Read More)
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Dubbed "the Paderewski of women pianists" by the New York Herald Tribune, British-born Ethel Leginska (1886–1970) was an extraordinary musical personality. A pioneering conductor who broke ... (Read More)
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Russian Romantic pianist, composer, and conductor Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931) mentored a generation of musicians, including Vladimir Horowitz, Heinrich Neuhaus, and Dmitry Tiomkin. He also left ... (Read More)
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Earl Wild, piano. Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Paul Whiteman, conductor.
Label: Ivory Classics. Format: CD.
Label Number: 70702. Daedalus Item Code: 37055
This historic Gershwin extravaganza includes the first complete Rhapsody in Blue recording (from 1945 with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra); Earl Wild's historic 1964 account of the Three ...(Read More)
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"It would be wrong to pretend that everything is on the same exalted level as Gould's almost miraculously articulate playing of Bach," writes Andrew Clements in The Guardian, "it was always ... (Read More)
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"Gould's Bach is, of course, justly famous. His English Suites are fine examples of the penetrating vision and digital dexterity he brought to Bach's music."—Washington Post
"Gould's 1964 recording of the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, BWV 772-801, was made less than a month before he made his abrupt departure from public performance, and that fact may affect how ... (Read More)
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"A benchmark of sorts … dynamically thrilling…. Hans von Bülow (1830-94), the great German pianist and conductor who led the premiere of Tristan und Isolde and was one of the first pianists to ... (Read More)
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Only Bach figured more prominently than Beethoven in Glenn Gould's recorded legacy. Gould so admired Beethoven's late piano sonatas that he chose them for his second major recording (although his ... (Read More)
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