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| Gemini - Liszt: Works For Piano / Wild, Wilde, Kersenbaum | |||||
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Release Date: 05/24/2005 Label: Emi Classics Catalog #: 86522 Spars Code: ADD Composer: Franz Liszt Performer: Earl Wild, David Wilde, Sylvia Kersenbaum
Number of Discs: 2 |
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This Gemini two-fer affords a curious reckoning—two very good pianists (still performing, by the way) cheek-by-jowl with one of the great artists of our time captured at the top of his bent. Wild is so fluently, incandescently in command here that it would be all too easy to make invidious comparisons, but Wilde and Kersenbaum, heard on their own, turn in readings notable for dash, brilliance, and persuasiveness. One may find Wilde finicking in Gnomenreigen and oddly intimate in his small-scale rendering of the Liebestod, but his performances—especially in the Norma Fantasy—if not top drawer, give pleasure. Much the same may be said of Kersenbaum, whose faceless go at the Eugene Onegin Polonaise is richly compensated for by a spirited Valse infernale (though not so spirited as to make one forget Wild’s tilt at it in his justly famous “Demonic Liszt” album—lately reissued as Vanguard ATM-CD-1488, Fanfare 28:1) and an impressive account of Hexaméron, that glorious curiosity of Romantic piano literature encompassing variations on the March from Bellini’s Puritani by Liszt, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny, and Chopin! That’s a formidable roster to confront—stylistically and technically—but she faces it fearlessly and brings it off triumphantly. Recorded between 1968 and 1973, sound is never less than adequately detailed, though the aural perspective recedes a bit with each performer—Wild is taken with an immediacy registering his extraordinary tonal finesse, by comparison with which Wilde seems discreetly recessed, while Kersenbaum has slipped into large-hall ambience. Tape hiss is audible at track entrances. Recommended. Adrian Corleonis, FANFARE |
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | ||||
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Ballade for Piano no 2 in B minor, S 171 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1853; Weimar, Germany |
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Tarantelle di bravura "La Muette di Portici" (Auber), S 386 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1846 |
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Petrarca Sonnets (3) for Piano, S 158: no 2, Sonetto 104 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: ?1839-46; Hungary |
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Petrarca Sonnets (3) for Piano, S 158: no 3, Sonetto 123 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: ?1839-46; Hungary |
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Valses oubliées (4) for Piano, S 215: no 1 in F sharp major by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1881; Rome, Italy |
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Transcendental Etudes (6) after Paganini, S 140: no 3 "La Campanella" by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1838; Switzerland |
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Transcendental Etudes (12) for Piano, S 139: no 5, Feux follets by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1851; Weimar, Germany |
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Transcendental Etudes (12) for Piano, S 139: no 9, Ricordanza by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Earl Wild (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1851; Weimar, Germany |
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Transcendental Etudes (12) for Piano, S 139: no 3, Paysage by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1851; Weimar, Germany |
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Transcendental Etudes (6) after Paganini, S 140: no 5 "La Chasse" by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1838; Switzerland |
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Concert Etudes (2) for Piano, S 145: no 1, Waldesrauschen by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: ?1862-63; Rome, Italy |
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Concert Etudes (2) for Piano, S 145: no 2, Gnomenreigen by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: ?1862-63; Rome, Italy |
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| 13. |
Rhapsodie espagnole for Piano, S 254 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: circa 1863; Rome, Italy |
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Isolde's "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan", S 447 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1867; Weimar, Germany |
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Réminiscences de Norma (Bellini), S 394 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
David Wilde (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1841; Paris, France |
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Hexameron, S 392 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Sylvia Kersenbaum (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1837; Paris, France |
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Réminiscences de "Robert le Diable": Valse infernale, S 413 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Sylvia Kersenbaum (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1841; Germany |
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Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin", S 429 by Franz Liszt | ||||
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Performer:
Sylvia Kersenbaum (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1880; Rome, Italy |
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