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Musical Toys

Mei Yi Foo (piano)

Musical Toys

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Musical Toys, above all, delights in the importance of being playful...the work that makes the CD essential is Unsuk Chin’s set of Six Piano Etudes: music that magnificently fuses contemporary...

The Times, 19th April 20134 out of 5 stars

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Musical Toys

Mei Yi Foo (piano)

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Musical Toys, above all, delights in the importance of being playful...the work that makes the CD essential is Unsuk Chin’s set of Six Piano Etudes: music that magnificently fuses contemporary...

The Times, 19th April 20134 out of 5 stars

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Award-winning Malaysian pianist Mei Yi Foo gives the world premiere recording of Unsuk Chin’s extremely virtuosic Piano Études, which take up and develop on the legacy of Ligeti’s. Following the artist’s recommendation, the listener is invited to create their own playlist, and playfully intersperse these among the other “musical toys” on the album, including Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata and Gubaidulina’s Musical Toys.

Contents and tracklist

Gubaidulina: Musical Toys
Work length18:34
I. Mechanical Accordion
Track length0:31
II. Magic Roundabout
Track length0:41
III. The Trumpeter in the Forest
Track length1:21
IV. The Magic Smith
Track length0:56
V. April Day
Track length1:01
VI. Song of the Fisherman
Track length1:49
VII. The Little Tit
Track length1:00
VIII. A Bear Playing the Double Bass and the Black Woman
Track length1:01
IX. The Woodpecker
Track length1:58
X. The Elk Clearing
Track length1:15
XI. Sleigh with Little Bells
Track length0:51
XII. The Echo
Track length2:21
XIII. The Drummer
Track length1:20
XIV. Forest Musicians
Track length2:29
Chin, U: Six Piano Études
Work length19:57
I. In C
Track length3:26
II. Sequenzen
Track length3:25
III. Scherzo ad libitum
Track length3:02
IV. Scalen
Track length3:09
V. Toccata
Track length2:59
VI. Grains
Track length3:56
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata for piano
Work length28:34
I. Sostenuto - Misurato - Prestissimo
Track length3:04
II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
Track length3:54
III. Allegro con spirito
Track length1:07
IV. Tempo de Valse (poco vivace - 'à l'orgue de Barbarie')
Track length2:28
V. Rubato. Lamentoso
Track length3:36
VI. Allegro molto capriccioso
Track length0:50
VII. Cantabile, molto legato
Track length3:26
VIII. Vivace. Energico
Track length1:08
IX. (Béla Bartók in memoriam) Adagio. Mesto - Allegro maestoso
Track length2:20
X. Vivace. Capriccioso
Track length1:31
XI. (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo
Track length5:10

Awards and reviews

19th April 2013

Musical Toys, above all, delights in the importance of being playful...the work that makes the CD essential is Unsuk Chin’s set of Six Piano Etudes: music that magnificently fuses contemporary complexities with the 19th-century spirit of virtuoso display...Liberating, that’s what this CD is, as well as a joy for ever.
4 out of 5 stars

25th May 2013

Delicious...Childlike needn’t mean naïve or childish. These probing little pieces sound like profound whisperings from a distant planet...a desert island disc.

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