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Divertimenti for Eight Instruments
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978-0-19-357096-2
06 November 1969
Price: Available on request
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for ensemble Forces or CategoryEnsembleDuration16 minutesDifficultyModerately difficultOrchestrationfl, cl, bn, hn, vln, vla, vc, dbProgramme NotesAlun Hoddinott's Divertimenti for Eight Instruments was commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival Committee and first performed by the Virtuoso
Ensemble at Cheltenham on 11 February 1968. Scored for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass, there are five movements - scherzo 1 (Allegro and leggerio), Canzonetta (Andante semplice), Scherzo 2 (Allegro alla marcia), Barcaruola (Andante), Scherzo 3 (Presto).
The movements, of which the markings are more or less self-explanatory, are typical of Hoddinott's individual musical thinking - taut, concise, subtly related internally, with a very personal lyricism in the slow ones - and carried out with great technical expertise, though with a light touch suitable to 'divertimenti'. the eye detects at once many of the composer's 'fingerprints', melodic, harmonic, rhythmic - the toccata-like march of scherzo 2, for example, with its potent dotted rhythm
coda; sudden rhythmic 'clusters', tonal juxtapositions; the prestissimo second part of Scherzo 3 in rapid quavers, woodwind staccato, strings tremolo, the horn with a chorale-like sustained theme.
The work is dedicated to George Wilkinson
© Burnett James
Record Review, March 1970
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Alun Hoddinott (1929-2008) Alun Hoddinott was born in Glamorganshire in 1929. His compositional talents developed early, and he won a university scholarship at the age of sixteen. In 1951 he was appointed Lecturer in Music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama; he later became lecturer at University College, Cardiff and was made Professor and Head of Department there in 1967.
Hoddinott achieved a mastery of composition which embraced almost every musical medium. His strong creative urge, stimulated by a tremendous variety of eminent performers, is reflected in a substantial body of works. Essentially chromatic, his music often shows a dark Celtic intensity, manifested in his nocturnal slow movements.
As former Professor of Music at University College, Cardiff, and Artistic Director of the Cardiff Festival, he had considerable influence in awakening interest in contemporary music in South Wales.
Alun Hoddinott died in Wales in March 2008 at the age of 78.
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"The Thematic material subtly worked out provides an astringent but not too exacting stimulant to ear and mind with the delicate Canzonetta and racy Finale the most memorable of the five short movements." - The Times "...subtle and highly organized, its entertaining manner masks a striking originality and concentration of content." - Colin Mason, Daily Telegraph
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