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Earl Wild: The Complete Transcriptions and Original Piano Works, Vol. 3

3/29/2019, 7 Tracks, 1:00:12

Featuring

  • Giovanni Doria Miglietta
  • Earl Wild

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Composer Biography

Earl Wild was a regular guest on the Caesar's Hour TV comedy show from 1955 to 1957, performing musical skits similar to those of Victor Borge.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Earl Wild was compared to Franz Liszt, a renowned 19th-century virtuoso pianist and composer, and was awarded the Liszt Medal by Hungary in 1986.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Earl Wild, the composer and arranger featured on this album, was committed to bringing concert music to a wider audience, often engaging with popular music.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Earl Wild's Reminiscences of Snow White is based on Frank Churchill's music for Walt Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in June 2018 in Genoa, Italy, using a Steinway D piano.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Earl Wild's Fantasy on Porgy and Bess is a Lisztian treatment that combines, reprises, intertwines, and revisits the central songs and motifs of George Gershwin's opera.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Giovanni Doria Miglietta, the pianist on this album, has recorded the complete works of Earl Wild for the label Piano Classics.

Source: Booklet

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