NOSPR Chamber Music / May Diversions - NOSPR

The programme of this concert is devoted to light-hearted, one might even say entertaining, music. We know Jean Sibelius chiefly as the composer of large-scale symphonic works, yet he also wrote charming miniatures such as the Impromptu for strings, a compilation of two short piano pieces. Jean Françaix’s witty Divertissement for bassoon was perhaps intended as a welcome diversion from the tragic events of 1942. In the Brook Green Suite, written for the school orchestra conducted by Gustav Holst, there is not the slightest hint of the composer’s death, which came just two months after the première. Mozart’s Serenata notturna is remarkable for its unusual scoring: strings and timpani. It also divides the ensemble into a solo group – string quartet without cello but with double bass – and an orchestra, in the manner of the Baroque concerto. It is music written for entertainment, but it is also the twenty-year-old composer’s playful display of dazzling invention.

Adam Suprynowicz

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