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  SACD Dvorak/Strauss/Toy Piano
Sid McLaughlan produced the recording and generally did a fine job in capturing the Berlin Philharmonic's sound although very little is heard from rear speakers—and for my taste, both Maisky as Quixote and violist Tabea Zimmermann as Sancho Panza are too close.
Bernd Wiesemann tells his "Little Toy Piano Story" in notes accompanying this SACD, "from the beginning" when he was fascinated by John Cage (after initial irritation).
Wiesemann apparently gives concerts of music for this instrument.
classicalcdreview.com /MC108.html   (371 words)

  
  Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
Bernd Wiesemann's recital "The Not-So-Well Tempered Clavier" offers new works by 10 composers, including Wiesemann.
Wiesemann's own Bauhaus-Suite is the longest selection on the disc, and to my mind the most satisfying.
Still, Wiesemann's performances are those of a toy piano master who obviously has lavished great care and consideration upon his own work and that of his colleagues.
www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7475   (567 words)

  
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A pioneer of the toy piano is the german composer and pianist Bernd Wiesemann (*1938).
In 1993 he released the CD Neue Musik für Kinderklavier (new music for Toy piano), containing compositions by John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ratko Delorko, Andreas Kunstein, Frank Scholzen, Joachim Herbold, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Francisco Estevez and Bernd Wiesemann.
In 2004 he released the SACD das untemperierte klavier (the not-so-well-tempered clavier), containing new contemporary works.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Toy_piano.html   (531 words)

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