MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Earl Wild

 
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Earl Wild
Earl Wild (piano)

[ Philips / EMI / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 October 2019

Royland Earl Wild was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1915. Wild was a musically precocious child and studied under Selmar Janson at the Carnegie Institute of Technology there, and later with Marguerite Long, Egon Petri, and Helene Barere (the wife of Simon Barere), among others. As a teenager, he started making transcriptions of romantic music and composition.

In 1931 he was invited to play at the White House by President Herbert Hoover. The next five presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson), also invited him to play for them, and Wild remains the only pianist to have played for six consecutive presidents.

In 1937, Wild was hired as a staff pianist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1939, he became the first pianist to perform a recital on U.S. television. Wild later recalled that the small studio became so hot under the bright lights that the ivory piano keys started to warp. (Wikipedia)

Tracks:

Disc: 1
1. Melodie d'Orphee
2. Rigaudon
3. Elegie
4. Tambourin
5. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
6. Isoldens Tod
7. The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee
8. Liebesleid
9. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
10. Grande Fantaisie On 'Semiramide'
11. Chants polonais: My Joys
12. Chants polonais: Spring
13. Chants polonais: The Maiden's Wish
14. Swan Lake: Pas de quatre

Disc: 2
1. Arabesques On 'An der schönen, blauen Donau'
2. Fantasy On 'A Life For The Tsar'
3. La Cenerentola: Variations On 'Non più mesta'
4. Fantasy On 'Don Pasquale', Op.67
5. Symphonic Metamorphosis On 'Künstlerleben'
6. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 7 The Man I Love
7. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 1 I Got Rhythm
8. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 4 Embraceable You
9. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 6 Fascinatin' Rhythm
10. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 5 Somebody Loves Me
11. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 3 Liza
12. 7 Virtuoso Etudes: 2 Oh, Lady Be Good