Sonata in A Major

Time for the first song……

I remember playing this song a few years ago for RCM grade 9, and there was also another song with the same title. (You can find that song here in a few weeks!)

I liked the idea of playing two songs with the same name, so I chose them both. If there wasn’t other information associated with the music (composer, date etc.,) then we wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. In this song, I especially liked the E minor section at 1:00, and the part after the transition to A major at 1:50.

2017 recording:

 

Returning here in 2024!

Listening back to some of my oldest recordings, I decided they needed some polishing. This one, in particular, has almost no dynamics. I missed a lot of notes, and I had some issues with playing staccato eighth notes in one hand and legato eighth notes in the other. Looking back, I don't understand why I didn't sync them up. That was when I was still doing my RCM exams, too. To be fair, I went back and recorded this in 2017 after I was done my RCM exams, so maybe I wasn't as concerned.
 

Thus, now I bring you my latest version of
Sonata in A major
composed by Domenico Scarlatti