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The second disc features earlier works of a very different aesthetic, including two neo-Classical sonatinas and a partita that evokes Shostakovich.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014

I can tinkle away on the piano much better now already; not long ago I played a Haydn and a Mozart sonata and some sonatinas.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can tinkle away on the piano much better now already; not long ago I played a Haydn and a Mozart sonata and some sonatinas.

From Time Magazine Archive

All right, Miss Holt!" replied Sylvia, "I'll do my best, but I wish we could lose old Clementi; I do so hate the sonatinas.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela

The second has the more merit, but both, like most sonatinas, are too trivial of psychology and too formal even to be recommended for children's exercises.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert