Englund, Einar: Sonatina Nr. 2

The Parisian

Englund's second piano sonatina "The Parisian" dates from 1984. Neoclassical in style, its brilliantly driving first movement gives way to the the sarabande-like middle movement, whose ambiguous harmonic motion in parallel thirds with octave doublings is challenged by a clangorous outburst of polytonality. The last movement is a fiery gigue on a jagged, syncopated theme.