Earl Wild plays Liszt La Leggierezza

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Uploaded by on Dec 30, 2006

Earl Wild plays Liszt's etude, La Leggierezza, from the same (presumably South American) concert.

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  • Rest in peace, Maestro. You have blessed us all with your music, and we have your recordings to cherish and remember you by.

  • Earl Wild was born on November 26, 1915, that would make him 93, not 83.

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  • @Pischnaholic Thanks for this inspiring comment. I would like to play like this when I am 83+

  • amazing pianist and did he ever last! Bravo!

  • Ach, perhaps he had more delicacy as a 50-year-old. I am spoiled by Godowsky's recording.

  • RIP to a great musician. Thank you for the great music and interpretations you have brought us.

  • What a wonderful musician, who brought joy to so many.

  • what an incredible performance, i can't believe someone as old as wilde can play so effortlessly and with so much taste

  • Amen to all that. It was such a pleasure studying with him most of the time. ANd you are right - he loved the search for just the right way, better way, never stopped trying to do something with more ease and ina better way. I saw him last summer, very frail, not sure how things are now.

    By the way - if you are really a Pischnaholic, LOL....leave those evil exercises alone! :)

  • A very great pianist who never received the recognition he deserved. He had more technique than Rubinstein and at least as much as Horowitz, and was much more exciting than Arrau -- but few seemed to notice.

    Earl Wild made a video of The Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise plus the Second Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody when he was 83. It was some of the finest piano playing imaginable with absolutely no concessions to age.

    He said he never stopped trying to improve. I believe it.

  • im in love with this piece

    im learning it right now

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