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Three recitals from American pianist Earl Wild, 'Liszt The Poet', 'Liszt The Transcriber', and 'Liszt The Virtuoso' are featured on this release. The recitals were filmed in July 1986 and are supplemented by a documentary and interview footage with Wild. Read more

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Wild About Liszt

Three recitals from American pianist Earl Wild, 'Liszt The Poet', 'Liszt The Transcriber', and 'Liszt The Virtuoso' are featured on this release. The recitals were filmed in July 1986 and are supplemented by a documentary and interview footage with Wild.

Starring	Earl Wild
Studio	METRONOME
Run time	DVD: 6 hrs 30 mins
Certificate
Genres	Music/Musical
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 05 Nov 2007
Format	DVD

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  Appalling

  Poor performance and interpretation, appalling picture quality, terrible instrument (unsufficiently prepared), amateurish recording: everything is wrong. Watching this DVD is like watching a bad videoclip on YouTube. If you love Liszt piano music, there are much better DVDs to rent with performers such as Argerich, Kissin, Barenboim (recital from La Scala) or Brendel (Années de Pélerinage). Earl Wild recorded a lot but he is much more convincing in the light repertoire (second tier but enjoyable composers) than in Liszt's music which requires so much more...

  • • Cookieheimer from London
    • Posted 04 May 2008 23:55

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  Amateurish recording, breathtaking playing

  The picture was slightly blurred and the sound was poor, with an obtrusive tape hiss in soft passages. Furthermore although each item on the programme was introduced there was no overall programme to enable one to select individual items. But Earl Wild's playing was breathtaking. I have been an admirer of his playing for years and for a man in his 70s to play like that is sensational. (He is now 93 and still playing!).
  
  Both programmes - pieces by Liszt himself and his transcriptions - were well presented, and the documentary was interesting enough though it didn't say much about Earl Wild, but a lot about Wynyard (now no longer, I believe, in the hands of the Duke of Londonderry but some sort of entertainment centre).

  • • nibor from London, England
    • Posted 21 Mar 2009 19:48

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  • Wild About Liszt
    Three recitals from American pianist Earl Wild, 'Liszt The Poet', 'Liszt The Transcriber', and 'Liszt The Virtuoso' are featured on this release. The recitals were filmed in July 1986 and are supplemented by a documentary and interview footage with Wild....