Wild - Complete Piano Music | Brilliant Classics 96705

Wild - Complete Piano Music

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 96705

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd December 2022

Contents

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor, op.21
» II Larghetto (arr. Earl Wild for piano solo)

Handel, George Frideric

Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major, HWV430 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
» IV Air and Variations 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (arr. Earl Wild)

Marcello, Alessandro

Oboe Concerto in D minor
» II Adagio (arr. Earl Wild)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.3 In the Silence of the Secret Night (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.4 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'O never sing to me again')
» no.5 Oh thou, my field (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Harvest of sorrow')
Songs (6), op.38
» no.5 Dreams (arr. for piano Earl Wild)
Songs (12), op.14
» no.2 The Isle (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'The little island')
» no.5 These summer nights (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Midsummer nights')
» no.8 Oh, do not grieve (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.11 Spring Waters (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
Songs (12), op.21
» no.7 How fair this spot (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Where beauty dwells')
» no.8 On the death of a siskin (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.12 How painful for me (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Sorrow in springtime')
Songs (14), op.34
» no.1 The Muse (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.14 Vocalise (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
Songs (15), op.26
» no.7 To the children (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)

Rubio, Jesus Gonzalez

Jarabe tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance) (arr. Earl Wild for piano)

Saint-Saens, Camille

Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31 (trans. Earl Wild for piano)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Romances (6), op.38
» no.3 Amid the Din of the Ball (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
Swan Lake, op.20
» Pas de quatre (arr. Earl Wild)

Wild, Earl

Fantasy on 'Porgy and Bess'
Hommage a Poulenc (after JS Bach)
Improvisation in the form of Theme and Variations on Gershwin's 'Someone to watch over me'
Improvisation on 'Apres un reve' (after Faure)
Piano Sonata
Reminiscences of Snow White (after Frank Churchill)
Virtuoso Etudes (7) on Gershwin Songs

Artists

Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor, op.21
» II Larghetto (arr. Earl Wild for piano solo)

Handel, George Frideric

Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major, HWV430 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
» IV Air and Variations 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (arr. Earl Wild)

Marcello, Alessandro

Oboe Concerto in D minor
» II Adagio (arr. Earl Wild)

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.3 In the Silence of the Secret Night (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.4 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'O never sing to me again')
» no.5 Oh thou, my field (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Harvest of sorrow')
Songs (6), op.38
» no.5 Dreams (arr. for piano Earl Wild)
Songs (12), op.14
» no.2 The Isle (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'The little island')
» no.5 These summer nights (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Midsummer nights')
» no.8 Oh, do not grieve (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.11 Spring Waters (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
Songs (12), op.21
» no.7 How fair this spot (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Where beauty dwells')
» no.8 On the death of a siskin (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.12 How painful for me (arr. for piano by Earl Wild as 'Sorrow in springtime')
Songs (14), op.34
» no.1 The Muse (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
» no.14 Vocalise (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
Songs (15), op.26
» no.7 To the children (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)

Rubio, Jesus Gonzalez

Jarabe tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance) (arr. Earl Wild for piano)

Saint-Saens, Camille

Le Rouet d'Omphale, op.31 (trans. Earl Wild for piano)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Romances (6), op.38
» no.3 Amid the Din of the Ball (arr. for piano by Earl Wild)
Swan Lake, op.20
» Pas de quatre (arr. Earl Wild)

Wild, Earl

Fantasy on 'Porgy and Bess'
Hommage a Poulenc (after JS Bach)
Improvisation in the form of Theme and Variations on Gershwin's 'Someone to watch over me'
Improvisation on 'Apres un reve' (after Faure)
Piano Sonata
Reminiscences of Snow White (after Frank Churchill)
Virtuoso Etudes (7) on Gershwin Songs

Artists

Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

About

The most complete available collection of the improvisations and transcriptions by a virtuoso of the Romantic school.

Born in 1915, the American pianist Earl Wild was known to most listeners as a specialist in the line of Romantic pianist-composers from Chopin to Rachmaninov. However, Wild was also a masterful improviser – in the tradition of the composers he played – and he wrote down (and recorded) many of them to leave a substantial legacy of transcriptions, fantasies and paraphrases, as well as original piano works.

Recorded between 2013 and 2018, this is the first and so far only complete collection of Wild’s piano music. It opens with deeply affectionate transcriptions of poetic slow movements from Marcello to Fauré. Wild’s own Piano Sonata dates from 2000, by which time he had been performing and composing for more than 70 years. Cast in the traditional three movements, it comes bang up to date with a spectacular final Toccata ‘à la Ricky Martin’.

An album’s worth of Rachmaninov song transcriptions testifies to the deep sympathy of Wild for the composer’s language. These original recastings blend the vocal line into the accompaniment and gain additional preludes and postludes in the manner of Liszt’s song transcriptions of Schubert. Wild knew Rachmaninov, often heard him perform, and knew the Russian soprano Maria Kurenko, who had worked with the composer on his songs, and shared the insights she gained.

Willd could dazzle an audience with keyboard pyrotechnics like few others, as the rest of the collection makes evident: etudes and fantasias on Gershwin; transcriptions of Handel, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky; and finally his own, roof-raising version of a Mexican hat dance.

When these recordings first appeared on Piano Classics, they attracted high praise from the critics. ‘Giovanni Doria Miglietta sounds completely attuned to the idiom, even though these works cannot have always been familiar to him. He has the technique to get round all the notes without strain, and he has a good instrument on which he makes a fine sound, with a sonorous forte that never becomes clangorous, and is well-captured by the recording’ (MusicWeb International). ‘A reminder that Wild (1915‐2010) was without doubt one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century’ (CD Choice).

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