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As on earlier Delphian discs from Wilde, the ear is seduced by his beautiful tone (the piano he uses and his technician quite rightly receive a credit), and try the adagios of 'The Tempest' and... — Classic FM Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wholeheartedly committed, authoritative and at times dazzlingly virtuosic — Gramophone Magazine More…

Wilde offers a determined attack on conventional wisdom...an epic, gnarled and rugged genius shaking his fist at the universe with all the defiance of King Lear...Some may accuse him of assault... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

Wilde makes some lovely sounds and, now in his late 70s, has learned to take his time. The first of the Liebestraume takes my prize for delicacy and control...connossieurs of piano playing will... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…the most impressive aspect of this disc is the beautiful sound Wilde coaxes from his superbly voiced Steinway (recorded by Beth Baxter in the Reith Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh) with... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 More…

Wilde's love of this music is transparent … he throws caution to the wind — BBC Music Magazine More…

Wilde's burning sincerity makes for compulsive if exhausting listening. He has again written his own notes, is excellently recorded, and if you like Chopin given with a steep and original slant…then... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

a marriage of discipline and imagination of which Wilde is fully aware…[Nicola Stonehouse] is eloquence itself in the Goethe-Lieder — Gramophone Magazine More…