This intimate CD offers a tribute to Andrew Y. Svoboda, a talented and promising Canadian composer who died suddenly at the age of 27. It comprises of all of his solo piano and his piano and cello works. It is an original CD with notes in Czech and English.
Andrew Yin Svoboda (1977-2004):
Complete piano
& piano and cello music
Contents:
1. Variations in F major for cello and piano (1996)
2. Aah Pootee! Overture for piano (1998)
3. Simple Ländler for piano (1996)
4. Invention on an Original Theme for piano (1998)
5. Sonata in E minor (unfinished) for piano (1997)
6. Character piece No.1 for piano (1996)
7. Ländler for piano (1997)
8. Perdu dans mes rêves for piano (1995)
9. Fugue in D minor for piano (1999)
10. Rapidstudy for piano (2003)
11. Taming of the Sun for piano (1997)
12. Ode 2 M for piano (2000)
13. Je me moi for piano and tape (1999)
14. Trans-it for cello and piano (2004)
Piano: Martin Karlíček; Cello: Dominic Painchaud
Recorded: No. 2 -12, N. Chandler, Mai 10, 2009;
No.13 Z. Corbett, February 12, 2010;
No.1 and 14, P. Parenteau, April 20, 2010 .