As days grow shorter and winter evenings stretch out ever longer, the contemplative voice of a solo piano can be quite soothing. The Archive has some wonderful selections to accent tea or wine-sipping evenings spent at home:

• Michael Nyman performs two pieces from the soundtrack for “The Piano”.
• These arrangements by Charles Parker of some well-known songs are quite lovely.
• This not so frantic “Frantic Piano” is an original arrangement by an Archive member.
• Hear the premiere performance of Alan Hovhaness’ Sonata for Piano “Ananda” , Op. 303 (click part II).
• 12 etudes by the very young Chopin are performed by Cecile Licad at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

In addition to more traditional piano music, the Archive has a number of recordings of music for toy piano performed by Len Tan and presented by Other Minds:

• An arrangement of Eleanor Rigby for toy piano.
• John Cage’s Suite for Toy Piano.
• Toby Twining’s compositions Nightmare Rag and Satie Blues combine toy with standard piano.

Enjoy!