EARL WILD PIANO CHOPIN RARITIES Majestic Album MZ2 78

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

EARL WILD considered to be the last "romantic" pianist in a rare recording of  CHOPIN RARITIES

Royland Earl Wild [1] (November 26, 1915 – January 23, 2010)[2][3] was an American pianist widely recognized as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class".[4] He was known as well for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz.

Majestic Album MZ2

Waltz Gb Maj Op 70.1
Waltz E min
Revolutionary Etude C min Op 10.12
Butterfly Etude Op 25.9
Black Key Etude Op 10.5

Prelude in D Min Op 28.24
Aeolian Harp Etude Op 25.1

3x10" 78 rpm record w original album

Condition: EXCELLENT, but scuffs and rubs, stickers, album almost like new, light roughing at edges

Royland Earl Wild [1] (November 26, 1915 – January 23, 2010)[2][3] was an American pianist widely recognized as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class".[4] He was known as well for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz. He was also a composer.

[edit] BiographyBorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wild was a musically precocious child and studied under Selmar Janson, Simon Barere and Egon Petri, among others. As a teenager, he started making transcriptions of romantic music and composition.

In 1937, Wild was hired as a staff pianist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1939, he became the first pianist to perform a recital on U.S. television. Wild later recalled that the small studio became so hot under the bright lights that the ivory piano keys started to warp. In 1997 he was also the first pianist to stream a performance over the Internet.[5]

In 1942, Arturo Toscanini invited him for a performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was a resounding success and made him a household name. During World War II, Wild served in the United States Navy as a musician. He often travelled with Eleanor Roosevelt while she toured the United States supporting the war effort. Wild's duty was to perform the national anthem on the piano before she spoke. A few years after the war he moved to the newly formed American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as a staff pianist, conductor and composer until 1968. He performed many times for the Peabody Mason Concert series in Boston, in 1952[6], 1968[7], and 1971 and three concerts of Liszt in 1986[8] Wild was renowned for his virtuoso recitals and master classes held around the world, from Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo to Argentina, England and throughout the United States.

Earl Wild created numerous virtuoso solo piano transcriptions - 14 songs by Rachmaninoff, and works on themes by Gershwin. His Grand Fantasy on Airs from Porgy and Bess, the first extended piano paraphrase on an American opera, was recorded in 1976 and had its concert premiere in Pasadena on December 17, 1977. He also wrote Seven Virtuoso Études on Popular Songs, based on Gershwin songs such as "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm" and "I Got Rhythm".[9]

He also wrote a number of original works. These included a large-scale Easter oratorio, Revelations (1962), the choral work The Turquoise Horse (1976), and the Doo-Dah Variations, on a theme by Stephen Foster (1992), for piano and orchestra. His Sonata 2000 had its first performance by Bradley Bolen in 2003 and was recorded by Wild for Ivory Classics[10]

Wild recorded for several labels, including RCA Records, where he recorded an album of Liszt and a collection of music by George Gershwin including "Rhapsody in Blue," "Cuban Overure," "Concerto in F," and "I Got Rhythm Variations," all with the Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler. Later in his career, Wild recorded for Ivory Classics.

Wild, who was openly gay,[11] lived in Columbus, Ohio and Palm Springs, California[12] with his domestic partner of 38 years, Michael Rolland Davis. He died aged 94 of congestive heart disease at home in Palm Springs.[13]

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