Stephen Hartke: Hartke Piano Album V. 1: Collected Works 1984-2015: Piano:

Grammy-winning composer Stephen Hartke is widely recognized as one of the leading voices of his generation whose work has been hailed for both its singularity of voice and the inclusive breadth of its inspiration. This second volume of his collectedpiano music brings together two very distinctive sonatas: Sonata for Solo Piano (1998) composed for and recorded by Vicki Ray on CRI records and Sonata for Piano Four-Hands (2014) which was written for the piano duet team of Anna Plonsky and OrionWeiss.

Piano Solo-There is also a solo guitar piece available called Un tout petit trompe l'oreille that is the original version of the third movement of ÿPost - Modern Homages Set II.

Par HARTKE STEPHEN. This three-movement work was written for the piano duet team of Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss. The work has a rather symphonic character with contrasting sonorities spanning the entire range of the instrument. Movement titles: 1. Intrada: Un poco inquieto, 2. Buck and Wing: Allegro vivace, 3. Pastorale: Molto semplice. Duration ca. 14' / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

Wir küssen Ihnen tausendmal die Hände was commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as one of four chamber pieces to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart (the others being by DonaldCrockett Rand Steiger and Libby Larsen). It has something of the character of a musical letter to Mozart taking its title from the closing salutation that most often appears in his own letters to his father (“We kiss yourhands a thousand times”). Mozart's “Kegelstett” Trio K.498 for clarinet viola and fortepiano had been my original starting point in thinking about this piece but as it began to take shape in its ratherepistolary stream-of-consciousness fashion I felt the need for more instruments. The ultimate result is essentially a trio for clarinet horn and fortepiano -- arguably Mozart's three favorite solo instruments -- with theaccompaniment of a muted string trio.

For flute english horn clarinet bassoon horn trumpet 2 percussionists (brake drum 3 crotales snare drum 3 tom-toms vibraphone) piano violin viola cello and doublebass. Precession was composed for the 1987 NewMusic Los Angeles Festival. The term 'precession' is used here both in its sense of a processional but more especially in its astronomical sense of a cyclical process that recurs according to a slowly changing pattern. Forexample the opening of the work involves the juxtaposition of a melodic phrase that is gradually shortened with an accompanimental gesture that increases in length. Other musical devices used are intended to reinforce this senseof independent yet related cycles among them the application of the principles of change-ringing to aspects of the orchestration.

Tableaux for Violin Viola Cello and Piano-Inspired by the paintings of Joan Miro and a late 14th century canon.

Soprano guitar and cello version available for sale. High voice and piano version also available for sale.