Earl Wild: Complete Piano Music (3CD)

Earl Wild 1915-2010

Complete Piano Music

CD1                                                                                                                                                                                74’43

Alessandro Marcello 1673-1747/Earl Wild

1. Adagio from oboe Concerto in D minor 4’12

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750/Earl Wild

2. Hommage à Poulenc 3’33

Frédéric Chopin 1849-1810/Earl Wild

3. Larghetto from Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor Op.21 9’30

Gabriel Fauré 1924-1845/Earl Wild

4. Improvisation on “Après un Rève” 3’08

Earl Wild

Piano Sonata 2000

5. Allegro (March) 7’09
6. Adagio 6’45
7. Toccata (a la Ricky Martin) 5’04

George Gershwin 1898-1937/Earl Wild

8. Improvisation in the form of a theme and three variations on “Someone to watch over me” 13’59

Seven Virtioso Etudes

9. Liza 3’30
10. Somebody loves me 3’30
11. The Man I Love 2’46
12. Embraceable you 3’07
13. Lady be Good 4’08
14. I got Rhythm 2’23
15. Fascinatin’ Rhythm 1’57

CD2                                                                                                                                                                                60’31

Transcriptions of Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943

1. Dreams Op.38 No.5 3’29
2. Where Beauty Dwells Op.21 No.7 3’38
3. O, Cease Thy Singing

(Oh never sing to me again)                                                                                                                                         4’52

4. Sorrow in Springtime Op.21 No.12 4’23
5. The Little Island Op.14 No.2 2’19
6. The Muse Op.34 No.1 5’07
7. Midsummer Night Op.14 No.5 3’44
8. To the Children Op.26 No.7 4’09
9. Do Not Grieve Op.14 No.8 3’11
10. In the Silent Night Op.4 No.3 5’13
11. Harvest of Sorrow Op.4 No.5 4’27
12. One the Death of a Linnet Op.21 No.8 4’46
13. Vocalise Op.34 No.14 6’49
14. Floods of Spring Op.14 No.11 4’23

CD3                                                                                                                                                                                60’13

Frank Churchill 1901-1942/Earl Wild

1. Reminiscences of Snow White

“Whistle While You Work”

“I’m Wishing”

“One Song”

“Heigh-Ho”

“Someday My Prince Will Come”

George Gershwin 1898-1937/Earl Wild

2. Fantasy on Porgy and Bess 29’21

Introduction - Jasbo brown blues

Summertime

Oh, I can’t sit down

My man’s gone now

I got plenty o’ nuttin

Buzzards song

It ain’t necessarily so

Duet - I love you porgy/Bess you is my woman

There’s a boat dats leavin’ for New York

Oh lawd I’m on my way

Camille Saint-Saëns 1835-1921/Earl Wild

3 Le Rouet d’Omphale Op.31                                                                                                                                        9’18

George Frideric Handel 1685-1759/Earl Wild

4 Air and Variations - The Harmonious Blacksmith                                                                                                      4’26

Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky 1840-1893/Earl Wild

5 Dance of the Four Swans from Swan Lake                                                                                                                 1’36

6 At the Ball Op.38 No.3                                                                                                                                                3’07

Earl Wild

7 Jarabe Tapatio; Mexican hat dance                                                                                                                           3’50

Giovanni Doria Miglietta piano

Recording: 7-9 October 2013 (CD1); 12-13 October 2015 (CD2); 15-17 June 2018 (CD3), Genova, Italy