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." Since its inception, IVORY CLASSICS has released twenty-three new 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 material he had never recorded before. He recorded on the new limited edition Shigeru Kawai Concert Grand EX piano, the disc includes Mr. Wild's piano transcription of Marcello's Adagio, Mozart's Sonata in F Major K. 332, Beethoven's Thirty- Two Variations in C minor, Balakirev's Piano Sonata No. 1 in B-flat minor, Chopin's Four Impromptus, and Mr. Wild's piano transcription of the Mexican Hat Dance (Jarabe Tapatio). This disc was released in November of 2003 by IVORY CLASSICS titled, Earl Wild at 88 on the 88's (CD-73005).

Earl Wild�fs lengthy career as a performing artist began long before his initial Ivory Classics release in 1997; many of his recordings were made available in the CD format by Chesky Records as either an original release or re-release. These discs included Mr. Wild�fs historic 1965 recordings of Rachmaninoff�fs complete piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Other Chesky releases which feature Mr. Wild appearing as soloist with orchestra include the piano and orchestra works of: Chopin, Dohnanyi (Variations), Faure, Grieg, Liszt, MacDowell, Saint-Saens, and Tchaikovsky.

Ivory Classics is proud to present several newly remastered CDs featuring Mr. Wild's performances of some of the world's greatest repertoire for solo piano. These re-releases began with Earl Wild's Legendary Rachmaninoff Song Transcriptions” and includes this disc of Chopin's Scherzos and Ballades. In the next year or so, Ivory Classics intends to re-release Mr. Wild's recordings of the following works: Beethoven's Pathetique, Moonlight, and Hammerklavier Sonatas; Chopin's Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25; various solo works by Nicolai Medtner; and Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Variations on a Theme by Corelli, Complete Preludes, Op. 23, and Op. 32, and the Piano Sonata No. 2. Ivory Classics is also looking forward to rereleasing Mr. Wild's own composition Variations on a Theme of Stephen Foster for Piano and Orchestra ("Doo-Dah"Variations) originally recorded in 1992. Each of these original digital recordings will be remastered utilizing the latest 24-bit technology and will feature new artwork, rare photographs, and insightful liner notes.

In the summer of 2005 Ivory Classics will release a new disc celebrating Earl Wild�fs ninetieth birthday! For this special occasion, Mr. Wild has selected to record repertoire by Bach, Scriabin, Franck and Schumann (CD-75002).

In 2005, Earl Wild will also be celebrating his ninetieth birthday by performing recitals in many U.S. cities as well as in Paris and Amsterdam. This tour will culminate with an official birthday recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City on November 29, 2005.

Mr. Wild is currently working on his memoirs which he hopes to publish in 2006.


Mr. Wild's personal website is located at: http://www.earlwild.com"

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"Earl Wild's technique still must be the envy of pianists everywhere."
--Chicago Tribune

"There is no substitute for skill and experience, both of which Mr. Wild has in ample measure. He played as one born to play Liszt. It was the playing of a supreme virtuoso, a colorist, a romanticist."
--The New York Times

"The cheers rang to the rafters as Earl Wild concluded what was surely one of the most stunning piano recitals in the entire history of the Wigmore Hall."
--London Daily Telegraph

"Earl Wild is surely one of our national treasures."
--Stereo Review

"Earl Wild is without peer."
--Boston Globe

"Other pianists play Liszt their way; Earl Wild plays him Liszt's way! Even well past 70, Mr. Wild remains one of the finest pianists of all, both as a colorist and an outright virtuoso."
--Wall Street Journal

Earl Wild really is a marvel!
--Gramophone

"A seamless bel canto line delivered in a hushed tonality with a simple harmonic clarity that was sheer lyric poetry."
--The Washington Post

"Mr. Wild makes some of the most satanically difficult piano music ever written seen as simple as falling off a log."
--The London Times

"Earl Wild is one of the greatest pianists of our age at the height of his technical and interpretive genius."
--Stereophile

"Wild the composer made a rare appearance hand in hand with Wild the pianist. With his Variations on an American Theme for Piano and Orchestra (Doo-Dah Variations), Earl Wild has come up with an eclectic yet extremely effective 26-minute piece that deserves wide circulation. An auspicious premiere indeed."
--The American Record Guide

"The white-maned lion of the keyboard."
--The Wall Street Journal

"It is not only supervirtuosity but also sheer pianistic elegance."
--Harold C. Schonberg