Connesson, Guillaume: Divertimento

D'après le Sextuor

pour clarinette en sib, violon, alto, violoncelle, percussion et piano

This Divertimento is an arrangement of my Sextet by Vlatko Nushev. Divertimento was actually the title I initially considered, as the work was written for a New Year's concert at the Châtelet in Paris in 1998, at the request of Éric Le Sage and Paul Meyer. It is therefore a score marked by joy and good humor with a melancholic suspension in the slow movement. The first Dynamic movement is a series of variations that multiplies the rhythmic processes inherited from American repetitive music. The central Nocturne is a sweet and sorrowful confidence sung by the clarinet over the harmonic carpets of strings and piano. Finally, the Festive releases a feverish joy around motifs among which we find a nod to Schubert's Trout. The score ends with a cadential snub. Guillaume CONNESSON Creation on September 21, 2021, at the Maribor Festival (Slovenia), by Simon Trpceski (piano), Hidan Mamudov (clarinet), Aleksandar Krapovski (violin), Sorin Spasinovici (viola), Aleksander Somov (cello) and Vlatko Nushev (percussion).