Earl Wild - Complete Piano Music
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Earl Wild - Complete Piano Music
Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)
[ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 9 December 2022
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Earl Wild (1915-2010) was without doubt one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His immense repertoire, his staggering virtuosity, his warmth and his charm deserve him the epithet legendary. Wild was a great improviser as well, and he frequently played his own fantasies in his concerts. Fortunately he wrote these wonderful pieces down, and his creative legacy contains a wealth of transcriptions, fantasies and paraphrases, as well as original piano works.
This 3-CD set presents Wild's complete transcriptions and original piano works, including the famous Porgy & Bess Fantasy, his own Etudes and Piano Sonata and the famous Rachmaninoff Songs: a feast of pianistic glitter and virtuoso fireworks!
'This is tremendously challenging music,' remarked Fanfare of the first volume in this series containing Wild's Piano Sonata, 'and Miglietta certainly has the virtuosity that it requires... Fans of this repertoire will want to hear his perspective - and will eagerly await the rest of the series.' "extremely well played... possibly my favorite piano disc of 2014.." Classical Net.
Previously issued on the Piano Classics label in three separate CDs, now available at a modest price as a 3-CD set.
Tracks:
Wild: Oboe Concerto in D minor, SF935: II. Adagio (after Marcello)
Wild: Hommage à Poulenc (after J. S. Bach)
Wild: Larghetto from the Piano Concerto No. 2 (after Chopin)
Wild: Improvisation on 'Après un rêve' (after Fauré)
Wild: Piano Sonata
Wild: Improvisation in the form of Theme and Variations on 'Someone to watch over me'
Wild: 7 Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin
Wild: Dreams (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Where Beauty Dwells (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: O, Cease Thy Singing (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Sorrow in Springtime (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: The Little Island (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: The Muse (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Midsummer Nights (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: To the Children (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Do Not Grieve (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: In the Silent Night (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Harvest of Sorrow (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: One the Death of a Linnet (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Vocalise (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Floods of Spring (after Rachmaninov)
Wild: Reminiscences of Snow White (after Frank Churchill)
Wild: Porgy and Bess Fantasy (Gershwin)
Wild: Le Rouet d'Omphale (after Saint-Saëns)
Wild: Air and Variations from The Harmonious Blacksmith (after Handel)
Wild: Dance of the Four Swans (after Tchaikovsky)
Wild: At the Ball, Op. 38 No. 3 (after Tchaikovsky)
Wild: Jarabe Tapatio
