✨🎶 On sale for the first time this Holiday season... The HIDDEN 2 CD set: www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/products/hid... With transcriptions by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Earl Wild, Moszkowski, and Max Pirani www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/products/hid... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #cdcollection

✨🎶 For the holidays, the HIDDEN 2 CD set is on sale for the first time ever! Give the gift of music paired with the ocean photography of John Decker www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/products/hid... #cdcollection #classicalmusic #classicalpiano

🎶❤️ A recent afternoon taping of “Liebesleid” with The Concert Hall at Drew University in New Jersey www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOw... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #musicsky

🎶🎧 Have you heard HIDDEN? Listen to HIDDEN / 2 on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/10ci7g... (available on all other channels as well) #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

🎊 🏔️ 🎶 Celebrating Sibelius on his birthday... open.spotify.com/track/2Sst8y... (and on Apple Music, YouTube Music, Pandora...) #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

It seems there’s a recent uptick in people listening to this piece on Spotify. I’m grateful and hope the emotional range and journey in it may offer something to this moment... open.spotify.com/track/7wLDjF...

The story of a return to music with new eyes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMF... (6 minutes) #classicalpiano #classicalmusic

Thankful for friends I was able to share time with over this last weekend The Institute for Music & Neurological Symposium in NYC was a hopeful event w/ scientists + music therapists sharing on the power of music Dinner w/ Illustrator Xiao Hua Yang to be followed by a collaboration in the New Year

🎶 🎹 Holding gratitude for the life, genius, and music of my musical mentor, Earl Wild, on his birthday. earlwild.com #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

“In the morning, at daybreak, over the dewy grass, I will go to breathe the crisp dawn...” Rachmaninoff’s “Lilacs” at The Concert Hall at Drew University #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

🎶❤️ Take a guided tour of Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise” in Grief & Hope (10 mins) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRg... #classicalpiano #pianosky #classicalmusic

🎶🪻 “In the morning, at dawn, Through the dew-clad grass, I shall walk, breathing in the freshness of morning...” A recent afternoon moment spent with Rachmaninoff’s own transcription of his song “Lilacs” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EY... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

🪻🪻🪻 “Lilacs remind us to unwind and relax; to breathe.” Take about 3 minutes to breathe with John McArthur’s recent performance of “Lilacs” from The Concert Hall at Drew University www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EY... #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

🎶❤️ Liebesleid (Love’s Sorrow) ...this musical story runs its course until a section that sounds like waking from a dream… Hear more at The Concert Hall at Drew University on YouTube youtu.be/rWOwnY5w5rE?... #classicalpiano #pianosky #classicalmusic

🎶🎥 Explore points of connection John McArthur finds with Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise in Grief & Hope (10 mins)

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRg... #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #rachmaninoff

🎶❤️ A playful performance of Kreisler / Rachmaninoff’s “Liebesleid” on The Concert Hall at Drew University’s YouTube Channel:

youtu.be/rWOwnY5w5rE?... #classicalpiano #pianosky #classicalmusic

🎃 a spooky little Lullaby for the season... music.youtube.com/watch?v=ESct... #classicalmusic #pianosky #classicalpiano

🎶 Monday melody... music.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaz... #ClassicalMusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

🎶 I’m drawn to shaping inner voices as I play... ...but sometimes a smaller piano, with a “close” and warm sound offers a moment to focus purely on the elegance of melody... #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

🎶❤️‍🔥 In honor of Franz Liszt’s birthday, a moment of musical declaration: “Funerailles” #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

A reminiscence of Lilacs… (Rachmaninoff) #classicalpiano #pianosky #classicalmusic

🎶 ❤️ Monday music... music.youtube.com/watch?v=bil-... #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky #liszt

🎶⏳ Music is so often connected to story. The story of this music took shape over 25 years. Explore at: www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/pages/stream... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #oceanphotography

🎶 🎹 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. #classicalmusic #classicalpiano

🎶🎹 Hear Piano Transcriptions by: Earl Wild Franz Liszt Sergei Rachmaninoff Moritz Moszkowski and Max Pirani featured on “The HIDDEN Project” streaming everywhere... www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/pages/the-hi... 📷: John Decker

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” - Henry Miller #pianosky #musicsky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #jazz

🎶🗽 Celebrating George Gershwin's birthday weekend... ...and music that stretched from Broadway theater to countless movies into the canon of American music. #musicsky #pianosky #classicalmusic #jazz

🎶✨ Remembering George Gershwin on his birthday... and marveling at all he gave us in under 40 years. Illustration by Xiao Hua Yang #musicsky #pianosky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #jazz

🎶🌅 Earl Wild’s artful combining of Fauré’s vocal part and piano accompaniment into a solo piano piece. “Après un Rêve” #pianosky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #dream

🎶 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… www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/blogs/record...

🎶 🌅 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 #musicsky #pianosky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano

🎶❤️ just under 5 minutes of perfection...

"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... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #ocean

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

🎶🏔️ 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 #pianosky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #ocean

🎶 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 #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky #sunset

🎶🪻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... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic

🎶 🪻 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) #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #music

🎶❤️ Some music, like a friend, travels with you, over years... #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

🎶🎧 The sounds of Sibelius Rachmaninoff and Bach..through the lens of Poulenc... HIDDEN / 2 is the musical bridge between “The HIDDEN Project” and what comes next 📷: @johndeckerstudio #classicalpiano #pianosky #classicalmusic #nowplaying #art

A wonderful way to listen...

🎶✨ The lightness of Lilacs... (Rachmaninoff) #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #lilacs

🎶❤️ ...a charming piece of music that I first recorded over 25 years ago and still find scintillating, grand, and full of fun today... “Liebesleid” #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #music

🎶⏳ A 25 year story told in 13 pieces of music... ...in conversation with the ocean photography of John Decker HIDDEN is an exploration of the shared recognitions that connect us. #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

🎶❤️ Some of Rachmaninoff’s most characteristic writing for the piano... “Liebesleid” (Loves Sorrow) is a joy to return to again and again #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky

Soft cascades of sound in “Liebesleid" (Loves Sorrow)… #pianosky #classicalmusic

🎶❤️ Liebesleid, Lilacs, and Lullaby... Listen to 3 beloved transcriptions of Rachmaninoff on HIDDEN / 1 Available as part of a 2 CD set and streaming on all platforms #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #cdcollection

🎶 Taking a moment to remember where things began... #pianosky #pianoteacher