Performance by Tim Adrianson from The Waltz Recital - 2018-03-18

• Performer: Tim Adrianson
• Location: Madison, WI
• Experience: 60+
• Composer: Stephen Hartke
• Piece: Gymnopedie #4
• Duration: 204
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• Music Source: Sheet Music
• Instrument: Kawai 5.5' Baby Grand
• Recording Method: TASCAM400
• Info: "Gymnopedie #4" is one of three solo piano pieces that Stephen Hartke compiled under the title "Post-Modern Homages". He wrote this in 1984, and it is (of course) an homage to Erik Satie. I admit I'm pushing the envelope in calling the Gymnopedie rhythm (a slow one-TWO; one-TWO, etc) a "waltz", but I'll defend it to the extent that the pulse of the piece is in 3 throughout, and that the middle section, in 3/8 feel, is quite waltz-y indeed. The piece is straighforwardly tonal, although there is quite bit of shift from key to key -- really, pretty much as Satie did in his Gymnopedies.