Divertimento on "Sellinger's Round"
composer: Sir Michael Tippett
for chamber orchestra
Dedication: to Paul Sacher
Premiere: November 5, 1954 Zürich (CH) · Conductor: Paul Sacher · Collegium Musicum Zürich
Orchestra instrumentation: 1.1.1.1-1.1.0.0-str
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 16' 0''
Year of composition: 1953/1954
Edition: performance material
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A variation of the traditional tune Sellinger's Round appears somewhere in each of the five movements. (A version by Byrd is also in the first). Incorporated in the music are short quotations from Gibbons, Purcell, Arne, Field and Sullivan.
Michael Tippett
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Tippett · Divertimento on "Sellinger's Round" for chamber orchestra, V Allegro assai · sound clip
Recordings
Divertimentos · Sinfoniettas (2007)
Sir Michael Tippett- Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra, 'Sellinger's Round' (1953)
- Rawsthorne · Britten · Berkeley · Arnold
English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar (conductor)
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SRCD.257
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