Eugen d'Albert: Piano Works

On this CD:

1. Suite for piano in D minor, Op. 1
Composed by Eugen d' Albert
Performed by Alexandra Oehler

2. Bagatelles (5) for piano, Op. 29
Composed by Eugen d' Albert
Performed by Alexandra Oehler

3. Albumblatt, for piano
Composed by Eugen d' Albert
Performed by Alexandra Oehler

4. Petite Valse ("Teresita") o. Op.
Composed by Maria] Teresa Carreno
Performed by Alexandra Oehler

Tracks:

Liszt: Grand Galop Chromatique
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Tchaikovsky/Wild: Pas de Quatre from 'Swan Lake'
Dohnanyi: Capriccio in F minor, Op.28, No.6
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.4
Moszkowski: Etincelles, Op.36, No.6
Tchaikovsky: Scherzo a la Russe, Op.1, No.1
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.12
Schubert/Tausig: Marche Militaire, Op.51, No.1
Liszt: Polonaise No.2 in E Major (Busoni Coda)

Tracks:

d'Albert: Scherzo in F sharp Major, Op.16, No.2
Schumann/Liszt: Fruhlingsnacht
Paganini/Liszt: Etude No.3 (La Campanella)
Paganini/Liszt: Etude No.2 (La Capricciosa)
Paganini/Liszt: Etude No.5 (La Chasse)
Chopin: Polanaise in A flat Major, Op.53
Liszt: Transcendental Etude No.10 in F minor
Mendelssohn: Spinning Song, Op.67, No.4
Liszt: Etude in F minor (La Leggierezza)
Liszt: Transcendental Etude No.2 in A minor
Wagner/Liszt: Spinning Chorus ('The Flying Dutchman')
Verdi/Liszt: Rigoletto Paraphrase
Liszt: Valse Oubliee No.1
Liszt: Gnomenreigen (Dance of the Gnomes)
Liszt: Transcendental Etude No.7 (Eroica)
Liszt: Waldesrauschen (Forest murmurs)
Dohnanyi: Capriccio in B minor, Op.2, No.4

Album Description

Scintillating - Exciting - Riveting - Powerful - Awesome - Stupendous performances of some of the most difficult piano showpieces ever written. Earl Wild bedazzles with his keyboard pyrotechnics, charms us with his musicianship and always impresses us with his élan. The virtuosic Liszt, Dohnányi, Tchaikovsky, Moszkowski, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and d'Albert compositions come alive in this 2 disc collection that every piano enthusiast will want to own! (ADD & DDD)Recorded: 11/63, 10/64, 1966, 4/67, 4/68, 6/69, 1976, 10/78 and 12/85. Mastered using 20-Bit State-of-the-Art Technology — HDCD Encoded

Customer Reviews:

The last American Romantic pianist!.......2005-11-19

Earl Wild is a true icon in the story of the American pianism. His excel virtues and broad gusto for an impressive of composers and tendencies have become him in obligated reference at the moment of rethink and establish a definitive valuation of the most intrepid and virtuosi pianist of several generations.

Once more he surprises us with his idiomatic Liszt, conferring him of vitality, spontaneity, expression and flair. Do not forget to include him among the selected dynasty of the Great at the moment to name Giants of the status of Gyorgy Cziffra, Erwin Nyiregihazi, Louis Kentner, Edith Farnadi, Samson Francois, Leslie Howard, and Michael Ponti.

Sorcerer's Apprentice.......2005-04-29

It's almost comical, the embarrassment of riches one finds on this 2-CD set. Each performance here stands as its own jewel. Each interpretation is carefully mapped out and flawlessly executed. One gets the feeling with Wild that seldom does he walk away after a performance not having done at least 99% of what he set out to do.

In the difficult(although rather silly)Grand Galop Chromatique of Liszt, Wild's touch is light but solid all at the same time. Very few pianists get to the end of this piece without sounding like their hands are going to drop off from fatigue. Yet Wild never gives a sense of this.

Having listened to perhaps fifty different recordings of the Mephisto Waltz #1 over the last twenty years, I still prefer Wild's. More than anyone he captures the sense of hallucinogenic sexuality that's heavily laced into this piece. Even with the brisk tempo he takes, the playing never loses its creaminess, it's seductiveness; it's dangerous allure.

There's nothing more satisfying than to be able to return to favorite pieces of music throughout the years and constantly find new things about them you never discovered before. So to with these interpretations, you'll find many reasons to keep coming back again and again, to savor the superb artistry of Earl Wild.

Sensational pianistic fireworks.......1999-06-15

Ivory Classics are now releasing a series of the veteran American piano virtuoso Earl Wild's recordings, upon which his reputation as a super-virtuoso rests. These superbly refurbished recordings date from the 1960s to 1980s and mostly capture Wild at his technical and interpretative best. Take the fiendish Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 for example. Even in the light of Wild's three other recordings of this piece, and other famous ones from Kapell, Horowitz, and Cziffra, this version is a spine-tingling diabolic ride at a staggering basic tempo. Other high-lights include Liszt's Grand Galop Chromatique (better balanced and controlled than Cziffra's), Gnomenreigen, and a stunning Dohnanyi pairing. Many other adventures await the listener - snap these discs up, a bargain at the price.

Famous Composers Playing Their Own Works: Welte Mignon Piano

Average customer rating:

Quality Piano Roll Reproductions
Great, great CD

Famous Composers Playing Their Own Works: Welte Mignon Piano

Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000009KFF
Release Date: 1994-05-03

Customer Reviews:

Quality Piano Roll Reproductions.......2006-10-31

One thing I would mention, other than the obvious (e.g., it's GREAT to hear the composers' own interpretations, etc.), is that the reproduction of the rolls is of good quality, and the recording doesn't sound cheap or poorly made.

I love the Strauss Traumerai, in particular, though it's all great stuff.

Great, great CD.......2002-10-09

Absolutely beautiful collection of Welte Mignon Piano Roll music... You hear great composers play their OWN music, not someone else's interpertation. Track #11 Strauss's 'Reverie' is very beautiful and the last 3 tracks are Gustav Mahler playing his own music, Mahler was a very fine pianist. Track #6 Humperdinck's 'Pantomine' from 'Hansel und Gretel' is very cool. These were all recorded between 1905 & 1906. These are not ordinary Piano Rolls, the Welte Mignon was a breakthrough, Stravinsky spent days over the factory in France recording, "my music for posterity."-------- Where his Welte Mignon recordings are now, who knows, let's just hope one day they too are released.

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Eugen d'Albert: Piano Works

Manufacturer: Ars Musici
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005Q39T
Release Date: 2001-09-25

Tracks:

Ste, Op.1: Allemande
Ste, Op.1: Courante
Ste, Op.1: Sarabande
Ste, Op.1: Gavotte & Musette
Ste, Op.1: Gigue
Funf Bagatellen, Op.29: 1. Ballade
Funf Bagatellen, Op.29: 2. Humoreske
Funf Bagatellen, Op.29: 3. Nocturne
Funf Bagatellen, Op.29: 4. Intermezzo
Funf Bagatellen, Op.29: 5. Scherzo
Albumblatt
Petite Valse ('Teresita'), O.Op.

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A bief encounter with Eileen Joyce.
Lightish selection, superbly played

Eileen Joyce

Manufacturer: Testament
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Airs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Caprices | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000J84R
Release Date: 1999-06-08

Customer Reviews:

A bief encounter with Eileen Joyce........2002-06-06

Internet reviewers, so far, principally associate Australian pianist Eileen Joyce with the soundtrack of the Noel Coward/David Lean film "Brief Encounter". This fellow Australian, who heard her in performance and whose piano teacher knew her, welcomes this excellent CD which provides a first-rate memento of her work as a much recorded pianist of the 1930s.

Hardly a month went by between 1933 and the outbreak of World War Two without Eileen Joyce, still in her twenties, completing full and varied recording schedules. Her repertoire, as reflected in this CD, was extensive. If the so-called "salon items" were the best sellers, that was because she presented them tastefully. True, she was sometimes guilty of tasteless additions, as when she provides a bass note at the end of the Bach Prelude and Fugue (Track 1) that was an octave below the one Bach wrote, but she was not the only pianist of her time to take such liberties.

In their day, released on the Parlophone label, her records provided some of the best piano sound to be heard, and they still sound astonishingly realistic. Artistically, Eileen Joyce didn't scale the heights, nor did she probe the depths, but she could open pleasant sound vistas that could provide wonderful listening experiences. I welcome this CD as very good value indeed, even if only because it is one that I shall want to play and replay many times.

Lightish selection, superbly played.......1999-12-11

In some ways, I wish the choice of selection were more varied (on top of it, several selections of this CD overlap with the Pearl reissue). Eileen Joyce recorded many discs during the 1930s and 40s, including some larger Chopin works, as well as Brahms pieces. Just by looking at the context, one will likely to get an impression that Joyce was a supremely talented drawing room player. Which of course she isn't. Joyce was a superb pianist, with technique and musicianship that rival among the finest pianists. Her glittering passagework is evident everywhere, but so as poetic sensitivity. Hopefully there will be another reissue of Joyce coming up soon that does not overlap with the selection here (or the Pearl reissue). Joyce's recordings certainly deserves more attention than they have been getting up to now. In the meantime, this CD will do.

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