CD From Hell: Mild About Wild

Jed Distler

Artistic Quality:

5

Sound Quality:

9

It’s encouraging to see young pianists champion Earl Wild’s original […]

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Recording Details:

Album Title: The Complete Transcriptions and Original Piano Works, Vol. 1
Reference Recording: Wild (Ivory Classics)

WILD, EARL:
Four transcriptions; Piano Sonata 2000; Improvisation in the form of a theme and three variations on “Someone to Watch Over Me”; Seven Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin Songs

Soloists: Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Record Label: Piano Classics - 0069
Medium: CD

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