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Earl Wild BachTausig Toccata amp Fugue in D Minor BWV 565
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Royland Earl Wild (November 26, 1915 -- January 23, 2010) was an American pianist, renowned as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class . He was well known for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz and he was a composer. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wild was a musically precocious child and studied under Selmar Janson at Carnegie-Tech University there, and later with Marguerite Long, Egon Petri, and Helene Barere (the wife of Simon Barere), among others. As a teenager, he started making transcriptions of romantic music and composition. Earl Wild created numerous virtuoso solo piano transcriptions - 14 songs by Rachmaninoff, and works on themes by Gershwin. His Grand Fantasy on Airs from Porgy and Bess, the first extended piano paraphrase on an American opera, was recorded in 1976 and had its concert premiere in Pasadena on December 17, 1977. He also wrote Seven Virtuoso Études on Popular Songs, based on Gershwin songs such as The Man I Love , Fascinating Rhythm and I Got Rhythm . Wild recorded for several labels, including RCA Records, where he recorded an album of Liszt and a collection of music by George Gershwin including Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overure, Concerto in F, and I Got Rhythm Variations, all with the Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler. Later in his career, Wild recorded for Ivory Classics. Under his teacher Selmar Janson, Wild had learned Xaver Scharwenka's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, which Janson had studied directly with the composer, his own teacher. When, over 40 years later, Erich Leinsdorf asked Wild to record the concerto, he was able to say I've been waiting by the phone for forty years for someone to ask me to play this . In 1997 he was the first pianist to stream a performance over the Internet... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Wild • • A link to this wonderful artists personal Website: http://www.earlwild.com/ • • Please Enjoy! • I send my kind and warm regards,
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