Earl Wild, David Wilde, and Sylvia Kersenbaum have the same interpretive approach to Liszt's music: the bigger the bang, the better the performance and its inevitable corollary, the more bangs, the better the performance. While it might be argued that the big bang approach suits Liszt's music, too many bangs is too many bangs and Wild, Wilde, and Kersenbaum are all bangers from way back. Wild -- an old-school transcendental virtuoso -- blasts through the Ballade No. 2 and the Tarantella di bravura with both guns blazing. ...
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Earl Wild, David Wilde, and Sylvia Kersenbaum have the same interpretive approach to Liszt's music: the bigger the bang, the better the performance and its inevitable corollary, the more bangs, the better the performance. While it might be argued that the big bang approach suits Liszt's music, too many bangs is too many bangs and Wild, Wilde, and Kersenbaum are all bangers from way back. Wild -- an old-school transcendental virtuoso -- blasts through the Ballade No. 2 and the Tarantella di bravura with both guns blazing. While Wild is capable of smoothness, subtlety, and even sensuousness in the pair of Sonata del Petrach, he sounds more in his element in the impossible difficulties of Feux follets. David Wilde -- another old-time transcendental virtuoso but no relation to Earl Wild -- burns his way through Waldesrauschen and Gnomenreigen, but while he, too, is able to express tenderer emotions at the start of Isoldes Liebestod, he seems more at home in the excruciating difficulties of the...
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