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ID: DCD34090
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
David Wilde (piano)
AboutReviews.These three piano sonatas outline a progression from the despair of the Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, written at the same time as the start of the famous ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’, when Ludwig van Beethoven’s realisation that his deafness was complete and permanent drove him to contemplate suicide, via his courageous fight back, brilliantly expressed in the irrepressible optimism of the Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, ‘Waldstein’, Op. 53 towards the lofty spiritual aspirations of the Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110.
50 years after his victory in the International Liszt-Bartók Piano Competition David Wilde’s masterful interpretations are the fruit of a lifetime’s experience of studying and performing these towering masterpieces. |
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ID: DCD34050
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
The original first-movement manuscript of Schumann's Fantasie in C has a number of differences from the editions commonly used today - significant tempo and textual changes which David Wilde has reinstated in a revelatory reading of this tumultuous love-poem to the young Clara. In contrast, Kinderszenen, a touching and vernal evocation of childhood, is given a performance of artless innocence that chimes with Wilde's conviction that ‘it shouldn't sound mature'. Carnaval's colourful cast of characters is viscerally and imaginatively brought to life, culminating in Wilde's fearsome ‘March against the Philistines'.
A veteran of the Romantic piano tradition, David Wilde brings six decades of intense experience to this recital. His playing harks back to a time when audiences expected much more from the performer. This is Schumann with personality - listeners searching for a ‘safe' experience will be disappointed.
Track listing
Disc One
1-3 Fantasie in C, Op 17
Track 1
Track 3
Disc Two
1-13 Kinderszenen, Op 15
Track 7
14-33 Carnaval, Op 9
Track 33
Total playing time (2 CDs) [89:18] |
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ID: DCD34040
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
"David Wilde's power and individuality make a separation between composer and performer, between creator and recreator unrealistic. He sees the simple grace and lyricism favoured by many pianists as an evasion of a deeper poetic truth, and if he gives us all of Brahms' exulting strength in the fugue from the 'Handel' Variations, he is no less responsive to darker nights of the soul in Op. 117. Always there is an open invitation to re-appraise Brahms' genius, not by a radical reinterpretation (the determinedly 'different' way of, say, Gould or Pogorelich), but by a probing and enquiring look beneath the music's surface life. David Wilde may be true to the composer, but he is a pianist to make you think again." Bryce Morrison
"One of the most intense and involving performances that I've heard" International Record Review on David Wilde on Delphian
Track listing
Brahms:
Rhapsodies (2), Op. 79
Variations on an Original Theme in D major, Op. 21, No. 1
Intermezzi (3), Op. 117
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
David Wilde (piano) |
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ID: DCD34020
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Luigi Dallapiccola is one of the most celebrated Italian composers of the twentieth century. This disc features chamber music and songs alongside his complete works for solo piano. Whether drawing on the music of the past to inspire the contrapuntal organisation of his own, or concentrating on the opportunities for gentle lyricism afforded by bell-like instrumental and vocal sonorities, Dallapiccola’s commitment to traditional expressive nuance has been seen by critics as a powerful aspect of his Italian insistence upon cantabilità - songfulness.
Track listing
1 - 4 Sonatina Canonica in mi bemolle, su ‘Capricci’ di Niccolò Paganini (1942-43)
5 - 15 Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952)
16 - 19 Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado per canto e pianoforte (1948)
20 - 22 Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagioper violoncello solo (1945)
23 - 29 Goethe-Lieder per una voce di mezzo soprano e tre clarinetti (1953)
30 - 32 Tre episodi dal balletto MARSIA (1949)
Total playing time: [74:12] |
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ID: DCD34010
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
In this exciting live recording, David Wilde presents a view of the vast emotional range of Chopin's music. Passionate, tender, challenging, consoling, from the Sonata in B Minor Op 58 to the Polonaise-Fantasie Op 61, Chopin is revealed as a universal man and musician.
'Wholeheartedly committed, authoritative and at times dazzlingly virtuosic' - Gramophone
Track listing
F.F. Chopin
1. Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
2. Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 50 No 3
3. Nocturne in E major, Op 62 No 2
Sonata in B Minor, Op 58
4. Allegro maestoso
5. Scherzo - Molto vivace
6. Largo
7. Finale - Presto, non tanto
8. Mazurka in C minor, Op 56 No 3
9. Mazurka in C major, Op 24 No 2
10. Tarantella, Op 43
11. Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op 61
12. Berceuse, Op 57 |
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ID: DCD34118
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Track listing
1 Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Liebesträume
2 Notturno No. 1
3 Notturno No. 2
4 Notturno No. 3
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca
5 Sonetto 47
6 Sonetto 104
7 Sonetto 123
8 Funérailles
Total playing time [73:58]
Fifty years after his victory in the International Liszt- Bartók Piano Competition, David Wilde - student of Solomon and of Nadia Boulanger - brings to the studio a lifetime’s experience with the music of Franz Liszt. The diabolically difficult Mephisto Waltz No 1 is dispatched in a reading which overflows with personality and conviction, while Funérailles, too, is compellingly reimagined by an artist who cleaves to an earlier generation’s ideals of recreating both the self and the music in every inspired performance. |
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