Margaret Leng Tan

Product Details

* Composer: George Crumb
* Performer: Margaret Leng Tan
* Label: Mode
* Audio CD (December 7, 2004)
* ASIN: B00063UEB6
* Average Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars Based on 1 review. Write a review.
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #171,750 in Music

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5 out of 5 stars MESMERIZING!!!, April 28, 2005

Reviewer: Ming-Yeung Lu (San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

There is also a DVD version of this (for some strange reason, the DVD DOES NOT come up in the search results for "Margaret Leng Tan"!!!???). Leng Tan's performance is filmed by Evans Chan, who has also done a documentary on her now being shown in film festivals. I saw his documentary, "Sorceress of the New Piano," in March in San Franciso--if it comes to your town, it's a MUST-SEE! I have written the following quick review for the DVD (I own both versions--the CD is good for the "pure sound" experience; but the DVD also has a sound-with-slide-show ONLY option.) The review: "Totally amazing! I'd like to write a full-length review but am simply too overwhelmed to do so right now. The music is mystical--and unlike a lot of contemporary stuff, EMOTIONALLY ENGAGING. And Margaret Leng Tan is truly a sorceress--she brings a kind of alchemistical (or alchemYstical!) energy to whatever piece of music she is interpreting, and the result is just mesmerizing. WOW!!! (Those who are not familiar with Leng Tan should check out her "Sonic Encounters" as well--she recorded Crumb's FIVE PIECES on that seminal CD.)"… (meer)