The Art of the Toy Piano
by Margaret Leng Tan
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 1997
- Label: Point Music
- Country: Singapore
- Length: 48:14
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Tan, the first professional toy piano virtuoso and a prot茅g茅e of John Cage, bought her first toy piano for 45 dollars at an East Village thrift store in 1993. The program centers on Cage's 'Suite for Toy Piano' alongside her arrangements of music by Philip Glass and Erik Satie.
Genres
Descriptors: minimal, delicate, piano, experimental, eccentric
Tracklist
- Mirabella (a Tarantella) (3:06)
- Eleanor Rigby (2:29)
- Satie Blues - arr. for toy piano and piano by the composer (6:05)
- Three Landscapes for Peter Wyer (5:49)
- Modern Love Waltz - transcribed for 2 toy pianos by Margaret Leng Tan (3:32)
- Miracle Ear (3:58)
- Nightmare Rag - arr. for toy piano and piano by the composer (3:55)
- East Broadway (3:32)
- Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 -"Moonlight" - transcribed for 2 toy piano's by Margaret Leng Tan: 1. Adagio sostenuto (4:40)
- Sweet Chinoiserie - arr. for 2 toy piano's, toy accordion, melodica, toy drums and rattles, glasses, dishes and cans by the composer (7:17)
- Star-Spangled Etude #3 ("Furling Banner") (1:19)
- Gymnop茅die No. 3 - transcribed for toy piano and piano by Margaret Leng Tan (2:32)
Credits
- Margaret Leng Tan - primary artist, toy piano, piano, toy [toy accordion], melodica, percussion, whistle [whistles], toy [cap guns]
- Philip Glass - executive-producer, composed by
- Karen Chester - producer, edited by
- Tom Lazarus - engineer
- Kurt Munkacsi - executive-producer
- Rory Johnston - executive-producer
- Michael Dames - photography by
- Stephen Montague - composed by
- Lennon-McCartney - composed by
- Toby Twining - composed by
- Jed Distler - composed by
- David Lang - composed by
- Julia Wolfe - composed by
- Ludwig van Beethoven - composed by
- Guy Klucevsek - composed by
- Raphael Mostel - composed by
- Erik Satie - composed by