Listen to an excerpt from the first movement:


Listen to an excerpt from the second movement:


Listen to an excerpt from the third movement:

Piano Sonata, No. 1 ‘Classical’ (1998) is the first piece I wrote as a student of Josef
Bardanashvili at the Music Academy in Tel-Aviv. The piece is “neo-classical”
in the sense that it pays homage to classical music as well as to other genres:
classic rock, Broadway tunes and other twentieth-century classics. The opening
theme was inspired by the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti although the original
naïveté of his music quickly gives way to a more contemporary sound. The second
movement begins with what sounds like a pop ballad, but its development is
inspired by Beethoven’s late piano sonatas. The final movement is comprised of
a theme and set of humoristic and virtuosic variations that explore various
rhythmic illusions and polytonalities.
Piano Sonata No. 1 has been recorded by Eliran Avni for Naxos; CD 8.579001