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.

ABRSM Piano 2019 &. 2020 Grade 8 Syllabus.

This solo piano arrangement was based on Víkingur Ólafsson four-hand piano version of the recording. It is very close to the original four-hand recording, but here we present you with a possibility for you to play this beautiful Bach sonata alone, according to the interpretation of Ólafsson, originally recorded as a piano duet with four hands.

https://youtu.be/cZHSSERqERg

As the title indicates, Sonatina for Viola and Piano closely follows sonata form
a somewhat smaller scale. Tonality and tonal relationships are basic to sonata form,
and in this sonatina, the tonal relationships within and between the movements are

all based on seconds. The movements are:

1. Allegro moderato, a fairly strict sonata-allegro in B minor.
2. Andante, a theme and variations in B-flat major, an enharmonic minor second
relationship to the outer movements.
3. Vivace, an abridged sonata-rondo in the home key of B minor

Grade 4+ Duration: 7:4