Seixas - Sonata in B Flat Major

This is a brisk, lively, and highly spirited composition. It is unified into a single movement, a characteristic common to that era and region (similar to the one-movement sonatas frequently composed by Scarlatti). Seixas, an 18th-century composer from Portugal, was contemporaneously creating music with Bach in Germany, Handel in England, and Scarlatti in Italy (and eventually Spain). Though Seixas' music has a definitive Baroque resonance, it also exhibits his unique signature style.