Volume one of the Stephen Hartke Piano Album covers more than thirty years of the composer's considerable output of shorter works for solo piano. Nearly all the pieces in this volume were composed as gifts for friends and thusbelong to the time-honored, if somewhat quaint, category of Albumblätter (Album Leaves). From a compositional standpoint, most of them involve some distinctive feature which connects each work to its dedicatee. Included works:Post-Modern Homages (Set I), Post-Modern Homages...