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This program is an exercise in pure virtuosity, and it is breathtaking. It includes some of the most horrendously difficult showpieces in the repertoire, containing every imaginable--and some unimaginable--violinistic effects, such as simultaneous left-hand plucking and bowing, harmonics and double harmonics, double and triple stops, to say nothing of runs across the whole fingerboard at top speed. The violin seems to be called upon to do everything but turn somersaults.

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"It's all enormous fun...it's certain that there will be nothing like this in your collection." -SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER The first pianola, or "player piano," was constructed by Edwin S. Votey in a workshop at his home in Detroit in the spring and summer of 1895. Within a few years, the mechanism of the pianola was also built into normal pianos, called pianola pianos. Besides playing works from the standard piano repertoire, pianolas may be used for music unlimited by the restrictions of the human hand.

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This exceptional recording is largely devoted to Earl Wild's own dazzling piano transcriptions. Mr. Wild received a Grammy® Award in 1997 for this disc of Thirteen Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions. It is being re-released on Ivory Classics® in honor of Earl Wild's 84th birthday! Praised by critics and music lovers around the world as a "stunning document of musical sensitivity and virtuosity" and "a tribute to America's greatest pianistic treasure" - this CD is now available in its original 24-bit HDCD state-of-the-art audiophile sound.