Earl Wild - Complete Transcriptions and Original Piano Works Vol.3
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10175
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 12th April 2019
Contents
Works
Air and Variations from The Harmonious Blacksmith (after Handel)At the Ball, op.38 no.3 (after Tchaikovsky)
Fantasy on 'Porgy and Bess'
Jarabe tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance)
Le Rouet d'Omphale (after Saint-Saens)
Pas de quatre (Dance of the 4 Swans) (Tchaikovsky)
Reminiscences of Snow White (after Frank Churchill)
Artists
Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)Works
Air and Variations from The Harmonious Blacksmith (after Handel)At the Ball, op.38 no.3 (after Tchaikovsky)
Fantasy on 'Porgy and Bess'
Jarabe tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance)
Le Rouet d'Omphale (after Saint-Saens)
Pas de quatre (Dance of the 4 Swans) (Tchaikovsky)
Reminiscences of Snow White (after Frank Churchill)
Artists
Giovanni Doria Miglietta (piano)About
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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