Here is the recording of a recent York University performance of ‘Rudnicky’. My solo piano piece (that’s right, I no longer refer to myself in the third person, I don’t have a team of elves maintaining my website. It was me all along!)

Anyway, back to the piece. I was looking for an very minimal and moody journey for the listener on this one. There is a degree of interpretation in the score and I feel the performer (Stef Conner) did a cracking job at getting the pace and feel across. The acoustics of the auditorium really bring out the overtones in the sustained notes too.

A composer friend of mine said it sounds like ‘angry Satie’. nice.

Rudnicky for Solo Piano (performed by Stef Connor)

I’ve included the PDF score for anyone who likes to read along (or play at home?)rudnicky

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For those who missed my original post re:the performance, here is the background to this composition from my programme notes:

“‘Rudnicky‘ is a solo piano piece composed for a laid back Polish expatriate friend of mine who lived for a time in Ireland and has since returned home. We worked together in the last true second hand vinyl shop in Dublin (Final Vinyl, Camden St. - now a ‘Centra’!) When I would visit Rudnicky’s he would educate me about Ethiopian Funk, Jazz, 70’s soul music and the origin of well know samples, playing excepts from his massive vinyl collection to punctuate whatever point he was making at the time. I composed this piece to express my gratitude and to throw him some contemporary shapes.

Something for your downtime Mr. Rudnicky.”