Melody's Mostly Musical Day Jenny Lin

• 1 Album for the Young, Op. 39: No. 3. Mamma (Maman) 01:11
• 2 La Tartine de beurre 02:09
• 3 Musical Jewellery Box 03:21
• 4 Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (arr. T. Nikolajeva for piano) 04:03
• 5 Lhistoire de Babar, le petit elephant (The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant), FP 129 (excerpt) 01:47
• 6 Menus propos enfantines 03:07
• 7 No. 2. Grandmothers Minuet 02:14
• 8 Chopsticks 01:27
• 9 III. Mignonette 02:23
• 10 No. 17. Perhovalssi (Butterfly Waltz) 01:48
• 11 Bumble Boogie 02:30
• 12 8 Chants populaires russes (8 Russian Folksongs), Op. 58: No. 4. Humorous Song, I Danced with the Gnat (arr. A. Siloti for piano) 01:31
• 13 Jeux denfants-les quatre coins in D Major (Childrens games, hide-and-seek) 03:02
• 14 Le Secret 03:11
• 15 Variations on Mr. Softee: Theme - Variation 1 01:36
• 16 20 Childrens Songs: Childrens Songs: No. 1 02:10
• 17 Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse (arr. for piano) 02:52
• 18 Musical Toys: XIII. The Drummer 01:24
• 19 Powerhouse (arr. W. Barker for piano) 03:40
• 20 Spaghetti Rag 02:18
• 21 Promenade, Walking the Dog (version for piano) 03:03
• 22 As 3 Marias: As tres Marias: No. 1. Alnitah 00:58
• 23 12 Variations in C Major on Ah vous dirai-je, maman, K. 265: Theme - Variations 1, 5, 6, 9 02:55
• 24 Nocturne in 3 scenes, Op. 72: No. 1. Stars twinkling 02:32
• 25 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4. Wiegenlied (arr. A. Cortot for piano) 02:54
• 26 Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57 04:13
• Total Runtime 01:04:19

Info for Melody's Mostly Musical Day

Steinway & Sons recently published an illustrated SPIRIO playlist for children and family members to enjoy! The lovely collection of classical piano works are performed by renowned Steinway Artist Jenny Lin. The album, Melody’s Mostly Musical Day, follows the life of a child from breakfast to bedtime, told through effervescent music and captivating pictures illustrated by Mikela Provost. Melody moves through her day playing with butterflies, enjoying icecream, walking her dog and of course practicing piano in the afternoon. After an adventure with spaghetti and meatballs, Melody retreats to her bedroom where plays with her dollhouse, a miniature white piano and enjoyes a beautiful view of the night sky. She dreams of sleeping outside in a bed of flowers with the moon smiling down on her. The delightful compilation encourages children to find their own joy and playfulness in classical music. The album includes music by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Prokofiev, Poulenc, Grieg, Brahms and Chopin.

A surprising and wonderful collection of classical piano works for children that follows Melody's musical adventures from breakfast to bedtime. This is the first album from Steinway that embraces music for the younger generation, but is absolutely meant for parents as well. Includes booklet with illustrations for each track. Jenny Lin is one of those pianists who deserves a major career for the sheer intelligence and musicality of everything that she does. (Classics Today)

Jenny Lin, piano

Jenny Lin
is one of the most respected young pianists today, admired for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence. Her ability to combine classical and contemporary literature has brought her to the attention of international critics and audiences. She has been acclaimed for her “remarkable technical command” and “a gift for melodic flow” by The New York Times. The Washington Post praises “Lin’s confident fingers… spectacular technique… “, “…surely one of the most interesting pianists in America right now…” and Gramophone Magazine has hailed her as “an exceptionally sensitive pianist”. Martha Argerich wrote: “Miss Jenny Lin is a very gifted young musician and a brilliant pianist.”

Jenny’s orchestral engagements have included Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony, Valentin Silvestrov’s Metamusik with Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Garden of Spain with La Orquesta Sinfónica de Gijón; Ernest Bloch’s Concerto Grosso No. 1 with SWR Rundfunkorchester; world premiere of Stefano Gervasoni’s Piano Concerto with Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. She has also worked with NDR Radiophilharmonie, Flemish Radio Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and performed with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, James Bagwell, Jiri Starek, Urs Schneider, Alexander Mickelthwate, Peter Bay, Jac van Steen, Ovidiu Balan, Wen-Pin Chien, Kek-Tjiang Lim, John Kennedy, Carlos Amat, Oliver Diaz, and Celso Antunes.

Her concerts have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, MoMA, Whitney Museum, San Francisco Performances, Freer Gallery of Art, Morgan Library, (Le) Poisson Rouge, National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery, Spivey Hall, and throughout Europe and the Far East; as well as Festivals worldwide at Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, BAM’s Next Wave, Spoleto and Portland International Piano Festivals in the USA, Chopin Festival in Austria, Flanders and Ars Musica Festivals in Belgium, Shanghai New Music Festival in China, Divonne Festival in France, Schleswig-Holstein, Potsdam and Husum Piano Rarities Festivals in Germany, Kings Place in London, Millennium Festival in Spain, Festival Archipel in Switzerland, and Winnipeg New Music in Canada.

Jenny’s extensive discography includes critically acclaimed recordings on Steinway & Sons, hänssler CLASSIC, eOne Records, BIS Records, Albany Records, and Sunrise Records. Since 2000, she has over twenty albums to her credit. The New York Times called her disc of Federico Mompou’s Musica Callada “…beautifully recorded…”. Classicstoday praised her 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovitch “…hands down the finest version of this massive work” and was voted Best of 2009 by the Washington Post, All-Music Guide raved: “The 11th Finger is a thrill ride for musical adventurers” and “Lin’s playing is nothing less than superhuman”, and Gramophone reported on her CD of Stravinsky’s solo piano music “superbly recorded… another notable achievement from this gifted and imaginative artist.” Other notable recordings have included Liszt Sonata and Schumann Fantasie, music for Piano and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch, Xavier Montsalvatge, Ma Shui-Long Piano Concerto, and ‘Get Happy’, an album of Broadway song arrangements by pianists such as Stephen Hough, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Chistopher O’Riley, and Stephen Prutsman. Two new releases are scheduled for 2015, an album for children and a two-piano disc with Uri Caine.

Jenny is the central figure in Cooking for Jenny by Elemental Films, a musical documentary portraying her journey to the north of Spain and meeting with composer Javier López de Guereña for the preparation of the world premier of his piano concerto ZAHARA. Other media appearances include CBS Sunday Morning, NPR Performance Today, and “Speaking for Myself”, a film about Manhattan as seen through the eyes of eight contemporary artists by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Austria, Jenny studied with Noel Flores at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, with Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and with Dominique Weber in Geneva. She has also worked with Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, and Blanca Uribe, and with Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Como, Italy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in German Literature from The Johns Hopkins University and currently resides in New York City.

Booklet for Melody's Mostly Musical Day