Divertimento for chamber orchestra

The beautifully crafted Divertimento on Sellinger's Round is as fresh, as accessible, and as 'English' as any number of British best-sellers, and yet remains little known. Anyone familiar with the quasi-Baroque manners of the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli or the Concerto for Double String Orchestra will surely enjoy this. So too will anyone who treasures the lovely 'Passacaglia - The Death of Falstaff' from Walton's music to Henry V, or the celebrated Lament from Dido and Aeneas, both of which were evidently haunting Tippett at the time of its composition. Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE (1905 - 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. His reputation as one of the most significant and original composers of the 20th century was hard won and established at an unusually late stage in his single-minded career. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage.