There are very few pieces in the Nikolai Kapustin oeuvre like this Sonatina intentionally written as aneasy piece.
Kapustin was approached by a music school for children and asked to write something “not too difficult”, and although he at first declined he changed his mind and turned towards writing something “easy”; his Sonatina for piano, Op. 100 was composed in 2000. The piece is written in the style of a simple classical sonatina, which makes it easily approachable, and sounds as if it were something from Haydn’s or Mozart’s chamber music performed with a jazz combo.
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在尼古拉‧卡普斯汀的作品中,像這首刻意寫得簡單易學的鋼琴小奏鳴曲這樣的作品寥寥無幾。
卡普斯汀曾受邀為一所兒童音樂學校創作一首「不太難」的作品,起初他婉拒了,但後來改變了主意,轉而創作一首「簡單易學」的作品;他的鋼琴小奏鳴曲,作品100號,創作於2000年。這首作品採用簡潔的古典小奏鳴曲風格,易於演奏,聽起來像是海頓或莫札特的室內樂作品,由爵士樂隊演奏。 ABRSM
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