Wild: Complete Transcriptions Vol.3

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It’s a brave man who takes on one of the greatest pianists of the last century in his own works. Comparisons may be odious but, in cases like this, are inevitable. If you have never heard Earl... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: PCL10175
Label: Piano Classics
Length: 60 minutes

Wild: Reminiscences of Snow White

Work length8:15

$2.00

$2.60

Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Fantasy

Work length29:25

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Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31

Work length9:21

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Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 430 in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith': Air & Variations

Work length4:28

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$1.30

Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Little Swans (Swan Lake)

Work length1:37

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Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3

Work length3:11

$1.00

$1.30

Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

Wild: Jarabe Tapatio

Work length3:50

$1.00

$1.30

Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)

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Thanks to his prodigious technique and phenomenal sight-reading ability, Earl Wild (1915-2010) became pianist for Arturo Toscanini in 1937, while still in his early 20s, and played Rhapsody in Blue with him in 1942.

Gershwin also forms the centrepiece of this third volume in Giovanni Doria Miglietta’s comprehensive survey of Wild’s own music. The Grand Fantasy on Porgy and Bess works all the best-known themes from the opera into a spectacular half-hour of pianistic devilry and enchantment. Lisztian in scope – and in the use of ‘Reminiscences’ in its title – Reminiscences of Snow White (1995) opens with glistening high-note scales, taking the listener into fairy-tale territories, with fragments of the principal themes of Disney’s movie scattered across the musical texture, most notably ‘Whistle while You Work’.

Like Liszt, Wild had the gift of bringing popular music and high art together without compromising either idiom. Miglietta closes this dazzling album with Wild’s outrageously entertaining transcription of Jarabe Tapatio, otherwise known as the Mexican Hat Dance. Before that he plays four reworkings of classical repertoire, all respectful of their originals and yet imbued with Wild’s own effervescent personality: Le Rouet d’Omphale of Saint-Saëns, the Air and Variations from Handel’s harpsichord suite ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’, and two Tchaikovsky pieces, a song and a dance from Swan Lake.

‘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.’

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July 2019

It’s a brave man who takes on one of the greatest pianists of the last century in his own works. Comparisons may be odious but, in cases like this, are inevitable. If you have never heard Earl Wild in these pieces, you will be suitably wowed by the Italian for he is a formidable talent who clearly loves the music and revels in its challenges…not quite up to the Master himself, but certainly masterly.

Wild: Complete Transcriptions Vol.3

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