March - Waltz - Polka; Andante - Espanola - Balalaika - Napolitana - Galop

Stravinsky's Three Easy Pieces, although dedicated to Alfredo Casella, Erik Satie and Serge Diaghilev, were composed in 1914-15 with Diaghilev's piano-playing in mind. Diaghilev, the great Russian ballet master, did not play the piano. Hence the secondo part is not only easy but totally static, a minimalistic effect enabling Stravinsky to take satiric shots at some of his friends and their popular styles. The Five Easy Pieces, composed in 1916-17 for his children Theodore and Mika, have easy tops rather than easy bottoms, and were dedicated to Eugenia Errazuriz, the wealthy Chilean who had introduced him to Picasso. Sylvia Marlowe, aware of the "many years pianists have been playing harpsichord music", enjoyed the "switch" of doing the opposite, and found these early works of "my long time friend Stravinsky" to be "enchanting."