Paderewski: Op.17

On this CD:

1. Concerto for piano & orchestra/1 in B flat minor, Op.32
Composed by Franz Xaver Scharwenka
Performed by Boston Symphony Orchestra with Earl Wild

2. Unknown Work
Composed by Mily Balakirev
Performed by Earl Wild

3. Concerto for piano & orchestra in A minor, Op 17
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra with Earl Wild

Tracks:

Piano Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 32: Allegro Patetico
Piano Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 32: Scherzo: Allegro Assai
Piano Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Minor, Op. 32: Allegro Non Tanto
Reminiscences Of Glinka's Opera 'A Life For The Czar'
Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 17: Allegro
Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 17: Romanza
Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 17: Allegro Molto Vivace

Customer Reviews:

A Terrific Recording .......2007-06-15

This is a brilliant recording of two of the best Romantic concerti by a truly great pianist. Earl Wild is a fire-breathing super-virtuoso and plays these works with total authority. His Scharwenka is much better than Seta Tanyel's. I love this CD. Get it, you will be very pleased.

Little hidden treasures!.......2005-11-13

The 19th Century nourished the virtuosity and made it a tradition. The nationalism fever aroused from the same entrails of this long stage as the natural descendent of its previous Romantic movement. The inner voices of every simple nation now wished to be listened. The names of Liszt and Schumann fed and inflamed the imagination and the inspiration here and there. The show business that the famous match between Thalberg and Liszt in Paris was a true accelerator for the multitude of Piano Concerts dedicated to exploit the pyrotechnic pianism. Many of these works lacked profundity or expression sense, but who really cared about it?. The febrile imagination of Berlioz shone, the fashion pianist became the crowds icon, and the spectacle literally loaded the most relevant Hall Concerts. The pirouettes, octaves and arpeggios deformed seriously the true essence and motive of the music, degrading it at the same level of a circus. Nicolo Paganini was possibly the herald and skillful pioneer that introduced this concept, a direct consequence, perhaps of the Opera 's irruption conceived as the new and sumptuous spectacle for the mass, a doubtful feat for many derived from the French Revolution. Now you did not need an illustrated or cultivated soul to assist to the Opera.

But inside this countless list of composers there were happy exceptions, and Scharwenka was one of them. He composed this Concert at 27, in 1877. Paderewski 's Piano Concert was the far descendent of a Polish tradition initiated by Chopin. That conception seemed to fade in the Second Half of the Century, when just a few composers could resist the empting dashing of the waves of the easy fortune, far from the tinsel and the truculence. Gabriel Faure, Edward Grieg, Edward Mac Dowell, Charles Valentin Alkan, Christian Sinding, Nikolai Medtner and Ignaz Moscheles were perhaps the little host of renegades who were not dragged for the mainstream.

Earl Wild seems to have inherited this trademark in his artistic vein. All his life was consecrated to make us listen and even discover those little treasures hidden bellow the carpet `s memory and the forgetfulness. That was always a big challenge for the audiences who were much more tolerant with new forms of Symphonic audacities, adopting a major profile respect the new piano works. That is why the most of composers of the Century XX , decided to compose symphonic works and once they were widely known, then composed piano scores.

Buy this record. It will be for you absolutely rewarding.

Music Track:

Music Track

music track

Recommended Music:

Possession

Maria Callas and the Great Sopranos

Jack the Bear

Music: Robert Schumann - Sonata in G Minor - Abegg Variation

Leave 2Day [CD-single] [Import]

Live from the Sun: Best from the West [Live]

Lisboa-Rio

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Allman Brothers

Loneliest Girl in the World [Import]

Mahler: Symphony No.9

Live in Tokyo [Import]

Live At Nefertiti [Live]

Latination, Vol. 3 [Import]

Greatest Hits

Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1971