MARGARET LENG TAN : She Herself Alone - The Art Of The Toy Piano 2

'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).
Also available on DVD with full video.
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES:
Each work is treated to its own visual mood, and captures the theatricality of Ms. Tan’s performance combined with the exotic toy instrumentation, as directed by Spanish cinematographer Anton Cabaleiro.
Filmed in high-definition video.
Uncompressed Stereo PCM audio in 96khz/24-bit.'




Tracklist
John Cage - Suite For Toy Piano
Composed By – John Cage
1 - Part I 1:27
2 - Part II 1:37
3 - Part III 1:35
4 - Part IV 1:23
5 - Part V 1:05
Eric Griswold - Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine
Composed By – Erik Griswold
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
12 Toby Twining - An American In Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango) 5:03
Composed By – Toby Twining
13 George Crumb - Put My Little Shoes Away 3:22
Arranged By – Margaret Leng Tan
Composed By – George Crumb
14 Jerome Kitzke - The Animist Child 7:04
Composed By – Jerome Kitzke
15 John Cage - Dream 7:59
Arranged By – Margaret Leng Tan
Composed By – John Cage
16 Ross Bolleter - Hymn To Ruin 7:06
Composed By, Producer – Ross Bolleter
Recorded By, Producer – Anthony Cormican
17 Laura Liben - She Herself Alone (1996/2002) 6:06
Composed By – Laura Liben

Credits
Engineer – Joe Marchiano, Max Ross
Mixed By – Steve Puntolillo
Photography By [Cover] – Michael Dames
Piano [Toy Pianos], Instruments [Toy Instruments], Piano, Voice, Liner Notes – Margaret Leng Tan
Producer, Edited By, Art Direction – Brian Brandt
Producer, Edited By, Mixed By – Michael Hynes

Notes
Recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY, on 7-9 January 2010.
Track 16 recorded at WARPS Studios, Perth, Australia.
Works:
John Cage, Suite For Toy Piano, 1948
Erik Griswold, Old MacDonald's Yellow Submarine, 2004
Toby Twining, An American In Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango), 2001
George Crumb, Put My Little Shoes Away, 2008, from American Songbook VI
Jerome Kitzke, The Animist Child, 1994
John Cage, Dream, 1948
Ross Bolleter, Hymn to Ruin, 2010
Laura Liben, She Herself Alone, 1996–2002