Jorge Morel - Sonatina (performed by Gleb Sokolov)

Sonatina, in three movements, is dedicated to David Russell. Jorge Morel has commented: “David and I met in 1979 in England. I stayed with him for a couple of days and he went through my music and found the Sonatina manuscript. He sight-read the piece and was taken by it. He said, ‘I like it! I want to play it!’ So I put his name on the dedication right away. He played it all over the world for many years… The Sonatina was a departure from my style … a little bit more classical, I would say. But still has a little bit of that Latin-American feeling there—I can’t get rid of it; I don’t want to get rid of it!”