MARGARET LENG TAN / マーガレット・レン・タン / SHE HERSELF ALONE : THE ART OF THE TOY PIA / CD

JOHN CAGE/GEORGE CRUMB作品でも広く知られるトイ・ピアノ界の最高峰MARGARET LENG TANたんのトイ・ピアノ曲集第2集。トイ・ピアノのほか、ヴォイス、トイ・パーカッション、グランドピアノ、ミュージックボックス、グロッケンシュピール、などの楽器も演奏し世界を広げています。


Margaret Leng Tan

SHE HERSELF ALONE
The Art of the Toy Piano 2 (CD/DVD)

John Cage
1. Suite for Toy Piano (7:07)

Eric Griswold
Old MacDonald’s Yellow Submarine (15:57)
6. On that Farm (3:29)
7. e-i-e-i-o (1:47)
8. Pink Memories (1:43)
9. Chooks! (1:56)
10. Bicycle Lee Hooker (2:21)
11. Old MacDonald’s Yellow Submarine (4:04)

Toby Twining
12. An American in Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango) (5:03)

George Crumb
13. Put My Little Shoes Away (3:22)

Jerome Kitzke
14. The Animist Child (7:04)

John Cage
15. Dream (7:59)

Ross Bolleter
16. Hymn to Ruin (7:06)

Laura Liben
17. She Herself Alone (6:06)



Margaret Leng Tan, toy pianos, toy instruments, piano, percussion, music boxes, voice


In addition to being a renowned new music pianist, Margaret Leng Tan is the foremost specialist at the toy piano. She has concertized worldwide with her miniature instruments, bestowing them with serious music status in repertoire both written for her and arrangements.

For this disc of attractive yet challenging music, Ms. Tan performs Cage’s classic “Suite for Toy Piano” plus her arrangement of Cage’s seminal “Dream” for toy & grand piano (a work that foreshadowed new age music); and her arrangement for voice and toy instruments of a recent song by George Crumb.

Ms. Tan uses no less than six different toy pianos here. Some works find the toy piano performed with other instruments including grand piano, toy zithers, music boxes, glockenspiels and percussion, with Ms. Tan as a veritable one-person toy orchestra.

Her initial toy piano CD, “The Art of the Toy Piano” on Philips/Point (1997) was critically acclaimed and a strong cross-over seller.

This long awaited follow-up recording combines serious classics (Cage’s “Suite”) with colorful fun (Griswold), a sultry blues-tango (Twining), drama (Crumb), to haunting meditations (Cage’s “Dream” and Liben).
Original 96khz/24-bit recording.

Liner notes by Margaret Leng Tan.