John McArthur (piano)

A reminiscence of Lilacs…

(Rachmaninoff)

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YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Myrthen, Op. 25: I. Widmung (Transc. for Piano by Franz Liszt)

🎶 ❤️ Monday music...
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🎶⏳ Music is so often connected to story.
The story of this music took shape over 25 years.

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The Genius of Earl Wild - Vocalise “Supervirtuoso,” “Romantic Master,” “Mr. Wild has one of the great piano techniques of the 20th century...” These are just a few of the copious accolades given to pianist Earl Wild and would be suffic...

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Earl Wild calls on the considerable resources
of the piano & his own creativity
in replacing the voice in Vocalise.

Through some very elaborate writing
Wild’s fingerprint is unmistakable

but without distracting from
or diminishing Rachmaninoff’s intent.

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Hear Piano Transcriptions by:

Earl Wild
Franz Liszt
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Moritz Moszkowski
and Max Pirani

featured on “The HIDDEN Project”
streaming everywhere...

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📷: John Decker

Embraceable You (Transc. for Piano by Earl Wild) by John McArthur on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 3:50

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YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Embraceable You (Transc. for Piano by Earl Wild)

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“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
- Henry Miller

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YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Embraceable You (Transc. for Piano by Earl Wild)

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Embraceable You - George Gershwin (Transcribed by Earl Wild) George Gershwin composed countless songs along with his brother, Ira, who was his lyricist.  His songs have been featured in Broadway theater productions and countless movies, making their way into th...

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Celebrating George Gershwin's
birthday weekend...

...and music that stretched
from Broadway theater
to countless movies
into the canon of American music.

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YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Embraceable You (Transc. for Piano by Earl Wild)

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🎶✨
Remembering George Gershwin on his birthday...

and marveling at all he gave us
in under 40 years.

Illustration by Xiao Hua Yang

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Improvisation on Après un Rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (Transc. for Piano by Earl Wild)

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Earl Wild’s artful combining of Fauré’s vocal part
and piano accompaniment
into a solo piano piece.

“Après un Rêve”

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🎶 The French composer, Francis Poulenc, used a harmonic palette containing dissonances that were extremely lush.

Earl Wild’s surrounds Bach’s melody with a new suit of clothes not too different from Bill Evans or Oscar Peterson - with a wink at the end…

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🎶 🌅 This beautiful melody by J.S.Bach,

when introduced to the lush harmonic palette of Francis Poulenc,

reflects the elegance and compositional genius of the incomparable Earl Wild.

📷: John Decker
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🎶❤️ just under 5 minutes of perfection...

From the salon and the scarf dance … to silence: the music of Cécile Chaminade Her work was played at Queen Victoria’s funeral, and her compositions celebrated all over the world – but today she is barely known. Stephen Hough on why he is putting Chaminade in his current season

"Like Chopin she was a composer of meticulous craft; like Liszt she knew how to make the piano sparkle; and like Schumann there are many moments of tender poetry", schreibt der Pianist & Komponist Stephen Hough hier über Cécile Chaminade:
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

🎶❤️ Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”

(transcribed for the piano by my
musical mentor, Earl Wild).

This piece was like a companion
to me for many years...

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🎶❤️ Wonderful reading & listening in memory of
a true supervirtuoso! 👇🏼

What a marvelous post and selection of performances to share! I can only echo your praise and agree that his genius is not sufficiently engaged or celebrated. His giant sound and generous guidance has been a north star in my own musical journey since student days.

YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Romance in D flat Major, Op. 24 No. 9

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🎶🏔️ Sibelius “Romance”

The quality of the sound, the harmonies, and even the gestures that one
hears in the rising scale,

that suddenly turns into a divided scale

ushering in the climax of the piece; this angular, carefully carved and polished almost regal sound...

🎶 ❤️ Visiting with “Widmung”
as the seasons change around us...

📷: John Decker

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🎶 HIDDEN / 2
A bridge from the Story of HIDDEN to the music that is to come...

Sibelius
Rachmaninoff
and Bach (through the lens of Poulenc)

📷: John Decker
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🎶🪻Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote this song
originally for voice and rearranged his own
original music for solo piano.

This very effective arrangement is less about
playing the piano as it is about
freeing one’s imagination to create
the fragrance of these flowers...

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Revel in Rachmaninoff’s piano transcription
of his own “Lilacs” along with
his transcriptions of
Tchaikovsky & Kreisler...

Listen to HIDDEN / 1 on Spotify
(and all other streaming platforms)

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Some music,
like a friend,
travels with you,
over years...

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