"Sonatina No. 1" is a nice little trio composition by Bernardo de Pace for two mandolins and guitar. It's in the 1975 Clifford Essex book "A Variety Of Mandolin Music", in which Hugo d'Alton had a hand -- his name is on the cover and he's written a short blurb for it but it's unclear if he had anything to do with compiling the pieces.
We've played this with our ensemble for a while now, but I've just recorded an overdubbed multi-track version by way of trying out my brand new USB microphone (a Zoom H2n). It sounds miles better than my old Philips dynamic mic, which tells me that I should have upgraded ages ago -- these things are remarkably cheap for what they can do and how they sound!
I've played the first and second mandolin parts on my Embergher Type A. I don't play guitar, so I've substituted tenor guitar -- the guitar is strumming for most of the piece, except for the trio section in which it plays arpeggios which sit fine on the tenor. I'm still finding my feet in overdubbing duets/trios, but this worked pretty well, except for a few bars at the end of the trio and the da capo, where the alignment goes a bit wonky. I should also make my tremolo smoother and/or faster, I think.
I've put the recording on Soundcloud, as downloadable MP3:
Sonatina No. 1
And the same recording on Youtube, with some pictures of de Pace:
Youtube
As always, I'm just a hack compared to many of the fine players here, but you may enjoy the piece (if not my playing of it)...
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