Great Piano Concertos - Earl Wild plays Gershwin Concerto in F

[Amelia4144]

Wonderful! I had never heard Mr. Earl Wild - on the other hand I do remember The Boston

Pops and conductor Arthur Fiedler, of course. I really love Concert in F and Oscar Levant

was the natural pianist for it, but this here is a very good version as well as Leonard Berstein's.

All them show some difference, certainly, but it doesn´t harm...

[newfreshreview]

The dangers of playing the first movement lie in connecting the material. If this is done poorly, it'll sound too much like odd bits stuck together, when in fact the movement is in proper form. I heard a live broadcast that failed along these lines.

[unclejuniorsoprano]

This is a tremendously difficult concerto to play for various reasons aside of those relating to technique. The best performance I've ever heard is by Oscar Levant. He handles Gershwin with the same skill & facility that Rubinstein had with Chopin & Horowitz with Rachmaninov. As adroit as Earl Wild was, there's still an element missing. Levant never had to catch up with the orchestra when he played Gershwin. It was always the other way around.

[BalletBabyBoy]

One of the great piano concertos.

[artyzach]

i liked several parts of this rendition, based on interpretation (which occasionally differs from the original score...) and virtuosity, but I found the tempo a tad bit too fast. Allegro did not feel very much like it, but felt very much like Vivace...

I will be performing this concerto's first movement a week from now... with my piano teacher as my accompanist. I hope it will go well as it's my first time attempting to play a concerto (of two piano reduction) and in such a rushed period of time