IC 76003 Booklet - Ivory Classics

British Petroleum Award for best musical documentary that year.
Mr. Wild is one of today’s most recorded pianists, having made his first
disc in 1939 for RCA. His discography of recorded works includes more
than 35 piano concertos, 26 chamber works, and over 700 solo piano pieces.
In 1997, he received a GRAMMY Award for his disc devoted entirely too
virtuoso piano transcriptions titled, Earl Wild - The Romantic Master (an 80th
Birthday Tribute).
For the first official release of the newly formed IVORY CLASSICS label
in 1997, Earl Wild recorded the complete Chopin Nocturnes (CD-70701),
which the eminent New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg reviewed in
the American Record Guide saying, “These are the best version of the
Nocturnes ever recorded - even better than Rubinstein’s.”
Since its inception, IVORY CLASSICS has released twenty-five newly
recorded or re-released performances featuring Earl Wild.
In May of 2003 the eighty-eight year-old Dean of the Piano recorded a
new CD of solo piano material he had never recorded before: Mozart –
Sonata K.332; Beethoven - 32 Variations; Chopin – Four Impromptus;
Balakirev – Sonata No.1 and Earl Wild – Mexican Hat Dance, all performed
on the new limited edition Shigeru Kawai Concert Grand EX piano.
For the year 2005, in which Earl Wild celebrated his ninetieth
birthday, he recorded a new CD of four major works (Bach – Partita
No.1, Scriabin – Sonata No.4, Franck – Prelude, Chorale & Fugue and
Schumann - Fantasiestucke Op. 12).
His historic year tour culminated with an extremely well-received 90th
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