Earl Wild is a great pianist, but when he started out, it was practically impossible for a non-European pianist to make an important career. On top of that, he started out performing Gershwin, which got him labeled as a "pops concert" artist, not a serious classical performer. About time people woke up to his greatness! His transcriptions are also superb!
A magnificent performance in the grand manner. Not "impressionistic" or overpedalled or precious. Just brilliant. The tone as beautiful as one is likely to hear nowadays. Bravo.
Its in the score. Look carefully. At that particular moment there is a direction that says "wiggle your head", then immediately after it says "wave your hand over right ear".
God! One of the most inspired interpretations of this piece ever. Never gets carried away like pletnev for example. And dare I say, more poetic than Arrau's too. Lets not forget the bug annoyance at 3:00 which was handled most professionally.
What a Brilliant Improvisation/addition from 6:38 to 6:55. He goes kind of fast for my taste in some places, but his technique is magnificent, and his phrasing in most parts is head and shoulders above the general crowd who play this piece.
Indeed, that improvisation is magical, also I love the way he voiced the last tremolo section from 6:55 to 7:24, the rolled chords played by his left hand sound very clear yet still soft as indicated pp in the score Recently I've discovered his rewriting the 2 over 2 trills into arpeggios as well, simply ingenious
Yes, he did modify it a little bit, and it works well. Instead of the impossible trills in the right hand, where 2 against 2 are trilled, he simply turns it into an arpeggio. I had to listen closely to know the difference. Other than that, I love his version of it, it's very fine, not rushed at all. Always concentrating on a beautiful tone.
I think not being a Steinway Artist also hurt his career -Steinway has definatly been able to market themselves well and many feel anyone who doesn't play one is inferior. On NOv 29th 2005 he gave a concert in Carnegie hall at the age of 90 to great reviews as a pianist I have to say I think most of what he does is amazing and very musical.
It was my understanding that tremolos irritate him because they were overused in silent movies (to indicate sadness, crying, death, etc.) so much that it cheapened them. From then on, whenever tremolos appeared in whatever he was playing, he amended the score in this way.
I wonder if this came from a performance done in Atlanta titled "The Virtuoso Pianist" around 1986 or so. Frank Bell produced these if I remember right. It was a series that featured Jorge Bolet, Grant Johannesen and others. I could be wrong. What a great rendition of this piece. Very beautiful. He took his time with this to his credit. Earl had an infallible technique. He practiced every day happily. I wish I loved to practice that much! :)
It actually sounds like water, and the irregular ripples that appear on the surface. I don't car 'bout what y'all is sayin', I see the sound as a bright blue in the beginning, an it ripples exactly like water. I've never heard another piece that sounds like what the movement of water sounds like to me. I'm a synaesthete, and this piece looks like water.
I like Steinways, but I actually chose a Schimmel 213 over a Steinway Model B. The Schimmel simply had a clearer focus especially in the treble and sang better (typical European bell-like sound). I suspect that the Hamburg Steinway would have the same quality.
Earl Wild always has a very delicate touch, though in some loudest powerful passages his clearness and clarity are not so perfect, and this piece suit s he very well.
His recording of Beethoven, Op. 106, made when he was near 80 or perhaps past, belies your remark about any lack of clarity in the "loudest powerful passages." You might also want to check out his recording of Rach 2 and Rach 3 available on RUclips. Earl Wild was a freak, a Heifetz, a Buddy Rich. Earl Wild was the "real" Horowitz: a. pianist's pianist.
yeah you are absolutely right, but i think he overplayed the upper notes a bit. i think the intention of liszt was to let them just be the background, like a purling creek when you walk along it.
I'm going to buy a Hamburg Steinway sometime soon. I love my schimmel213 over the Seilers, even which tend to be overly brilliant to me. It's a matter of preference.
Wow, I almost have to wonder if you're John Bell-Young. First of all most people who enjoy non-modern music would agree that this is one of List's more sublime works. Wild's performance is excellent and I have to wonder if you've ever receieved applause from an audience like he has. If you actually are 19 I'd venture to believe you are still trying to find out who you are. Perhaps you believe saying negative things about an aclaimed pianist will make you special. OH BTW - Earl Wild is alive.
I don't get the "John Bell-Young" reference. Are you responding to someone? I couldn't tell who you were responding to. Why mention John? I do agree this is a beautiful masterpiece by Liszt beautifully played by Earl Wild.
I think saying someone is better than someone else is realative. I mean I love Horowitz in Scriabin but, in Mozart I feel he is sub par. Most pianists have their strengths and faults certainly Wild has had a longer career because Cliburn has taken many breaks in his career.
You're kidding, right? It looks to me like a fly landed on his ear or something and seriously distracted him. He cares about the sound, not about his appearance, and he obviously couldn't maintain that sound without dealing with the distraction. Every serious musician shares/shared the same philosophy, including Liszt. So how exactly is that distasteful to Liszt's intentions?
Why did he decide not to play Steinway? He played it when he was young, and recorderded on it, too. I actually find some Kawaii's, Baldwin's better than Steinways in todays world...
He played Baldwin, as most Baldwin pianists did, because they provided much better service than Steinway did, except for Steinway's most highly marketed pianists with very large careers.
@@MrKlemps Yes! Lots of truth there. Jorge Bolet was a Baldwin/ Bechstein artist too. He and Earl were friends for years. Both of those guys were sublime artists with infallible technique.
Nickk8416: Two American Schnabel students who thoroughly deserved bigger careers and who played Baldwin: Beveridge Webster and Leonard Shure, both of whom were revered as teachers.
@@MrKlemps Very true. Many years ago when I was 16 I revered my Beethoven Hammerklavier recording by Beveridge Webster. I'm certain he played Baldwin. They have there own distinct sound. Usually on the bright side.
This music is trash. Earl Wild was a hack and everybody knows it. No self-respecting musician would take his hands off of his instrument like Wild does at 3:00.
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Earl Wild is a great pianist, but when he started out, it was practically impossible for a non-European pianist to make an important career. On top of that, he started out performing Gershwin, which got him labeled as a "pops concert" artist, not a serious classical performer. About time people woke up to his greatness! His transcriptions are also superb!
A magnificent performance in the grand manner. Not "impressionistic" or overpedalled or precious. Just brilliant. The tone as beautiful as one is likely to hear nowadays. Bravo.
Its in the score. Look carefully. At that particular moment there is a direction that says "wiggle your head", then immediately after it says "wave your hand over right ear".
such a gentleman too, love the performance
God! One of the most inspired interpretations of this piece ever. Never gets carried away like pletnev for example. And dare I say, more poetic than Arrau's too. Lets not forget the bug annoyance at 3:00 which was handled most professionally.
Earl Wild is my favorite Liszt interpreter. I love the elegance and light touch he brings to music that is all to often "banged out" on the piano!
Beautiful performance and very tasteful transcription of some tremolo's! I love Wild's freedom and subtlety in his performances, truely great!
just awesome!
Sooo lovely...
I love this song.
What a Brilliant Improvisation/addition from 6:38 to 6:55.
He goes kind of fast for my taste in some places, but his technique is magnificent, and his phrasing in most parts is head and shoulders above the general crowd who play this piece.
Indeed, that improvisation is magical, also I love the way he voiced the last tremolo section from 6:55 to 7:24, the rolled chords played by his left hand sound very clear yet still soft as indicated pp in the score
Recently I've discovered his rewriting the 2 over 2 trills into arpeggios as well, simply ingenious
Amazing...
Fabulous technique control and interpretation. The best. And live not in the studio with 10 retakes!
love..
Wow, this is so impressionistic! Liszt's genius cannot be exaggerated.
I have heard this many times before, but I've never heard the upper notes quite like this rendition. I liked it.
Yes, he did modify it a little bit, and it works well. Instead of the impossible trills in the right hand, where 2 against 2 are trilled, he simply turns it into an arpeggio. I had to listen closely to know the difference.
Other than that, I love his version of it, it's very fine, not rushed at all. Always concentrating on a beautiful tone.
Bravo!
great, great, great!
A really sensitive and commanding, yet personal interpretation. This pianist is under-rated. Not as "deep" as Richter or Cziffra?...? Beautiful!
Beautiful, the fly makes it even more impressive.
PURE BEAUTY! Don´t comment, just listen.
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excellent
Great tempo choice, very enjoyable
I think not being a Steinway Artist also hurt his career -Steinway has definatly been able to market themselves well and many feel anyone who doesn't play one is inferior. On NOv 29th 2005 he gave a concert in Carnegie hall at the age of 90 to great reviews as a pianist I have to say I think most of what he does is amazing and very musical.
And he performed that 90th Birthday recital in Carnegie Hall on a beautiful Shigeru Kawai
It was my understanding that tremolos irritate him because they were overused in silent movies (to indicate sadness, crying, death, etc.) so much that it cheapened them. From then on, whenever tremolos appeared in whatever he was playing, he amended the score in this way.
Yep - he hated them
I wonder if this came from a performance done in Atlanta titled "The Virtuoso Pianist" around 1986 or so. Frank Bell produced these if I remember right. It was a series that featured Jorge Bolet, Grant Johannesen and others. I could be wrong.
What a great rendition of this piece. Very beautiful. He took his time with this to his credit. Earl had an infallible technique. He practiced every day happily. I wish I loved to practice that much! :)
It's at Weigel Hall at Ohio State when he was on the faculty there. I was a doctoral student of his
@@NelsonHarper-pe8vt What was Earl like as a teacher. Was he strict, patient, demanding or generous?
I love 6:38 to 6:54!
Fantastic tone and personality, very originals "improvisations" wonderfull, deep soul, and to be really compared with one of my teacher... Cziffra!!!
La plus belle interprétation de ce morceau, à mon avis. Par lui ou par d'autres.
DAMN this video is old...this is one from 2006. shit son. you're an original.
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It actually sounds like water, and the irregular ripples that appear on the surface. I don't car 'bout what y'all is sayin', I see the sound as a bright blue in the beginning, an it ripples exactly like water. I've never heard another piece that sounds like what the movement of water sounds like to me. I'm a synaesthete, and this piece looks like water.
Ravel's Jeux d'eau or Une barque sur l'océan sound like water too, but I still prefer this piece over those two
Mr, Wild that was nice
@JazZebra Yes.
because he is genius.
I like Steinways, but I actually chose a Schimmel 213 over a Steinway Model B. The Schimmel simply had a clearer focus especially in the treble and sang better (typical European bell-like sound). I suspect that the Hamburg Steinway would have the same quality.
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Earl Wild always has a very delicate touch, though in some loudest powerful passages his clearness and clarity are not so perfect, and this piece suit s he very well.
His recording of Beethoven, Op. 106, made when he was near 80 or perhaps past, belies your remark about any lack of clarity in the "loudest powerful passages." You might also want to check out his recording of Rach 2 and Rach 3 available on RUclips. Earl Wild was a freak, a Heifetz, a Buddy Rich. Earl Wild was the "real" Horowitz: a. pianist's pianist.
yeah you are absolutely right, but i think he overplayed the upper notes a bit. i think the intention of liszt was to let them just be the background, like a purling creek when you walk along it.
I'm going to buy a Hamburg Steinway sometime soon. I love my schimmel213 over the Seilers, even which tend to be overly brilliant to me. It's a matter of preference.
Wow, I almost have to wonder if you're John Bell-Young. First of all most people who enjoy non-modern music would agree that this is one of List's more sublime works. Wild's performance is excellent and I have to wonder if you've ever receieved applause from an audience like he has. If you actually are 19 I'd venture to believe you are still trying to find out who you are. Perhaps you believe saying negative things about an aclaimed pianist will make you special. OH BTW - Earl Wild is alive.
I don't get the "John Bell-Young" reference. Are you responding to someone? I couldn't tell who you were responding to. Why mention John?
I do agree this is a beautiful masterpiece by Liszt beautifully played by Earl Wild.
This piece is for white mained lions of the keyboard of a class such as Wild and Cziffra.
He changed the sheet or its me? It's beautifull play like this anyway.
+lePistolero Yes, just in case you have been aimlessly and desperately wondering a whole year. At least the last part is different.
00:04 where'is my mother? Ok let's play Liszt.
My RUclips-friend Earl Wild is dead.
Liszt obviously never scratched...
i think he plays great, but havn't heard much about him.
you never know what he did you weren't there so u can't say. Who knows man that day liszt just had a mosquito bite there??
how do u know what Liszt intended?
Maybe he got the original liszt scores and there said scratch your ears???
you never know
I'd save that seat for Gershwin, although I must admit Wild is incredible
@LisztFan10 hearing aid malfunction mb. i heard franz once took a shit on the bench while playing.. explain that..
I think saying someone is better than someone else is realative. I mean I love Horowitz in Scriabin but, in Mozart I feel he is sub par. Most pianists have their strengths and faults certainly Wild has had a longer career because Cliburn has taken many breaks in his career.
You're kidding, right? It looks to me like a fly landed on his ear or something and seriously distracted him. He cares about the sound, not about his appearance, and he obviously couldn't maintain that sound without dealing with the distraction. Every serious musician shares/shared the same philosophy, including Liszt. So how exactly is that distasteful to Liszt's intentions?
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Why did he decide not to play Steinway? He played it when he was young, and recorderded on it, too. I actually find some Kawaii's, Baldwin's better than Steinways in todays world...
He played Baldwin, as most Baldwin pianists did, because they provided much better service than Steinway did, except for Steinway's most highly marketed pianists with very large careers.
@@MrKlemps Yes! Lots of truth there. Jorge Bolet was a Baldwin/ Bechstein artist too. He and Earl were friends for years. Both of those guys were sublime artists with infallible technique.
Nickk8416: Two American Schnabel students who thoroughly deserved bigger careers and who played Baldwin: Beveridge Webster and Leonard Shure, both of whom were revered as teachers.
@@MrKlemps Very true. Many years ago when I was 16 I revered my Beethoven Hammerklavier recording by Beveridge Webster. I'm certain he played Baldwin. They have there own distinct sound. Usually on the bright side.
Gershwin??? Uh...interesting you'd think Gershwin was a touring concert pianist. And not a little funny.
Oh, what anguish a paranoid, delusional schizophrenic must suffer through...
This music is trash. Earl Wild was a hack and everybody knows it. No self-respecting musician would take his hands off of his instrument like Wild does at 3:00.
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what does the music have to do with earl wild? and if u look closely there was a fly. ever tried playing with a fly on your face?
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