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Title	Second Sinfonietta ("Daily Divertimento")
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Wind Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	click here
Year of publication	2024
Composer	Kraas, Thiemo
Difficulty level	5
Duration	11:00
Additional info/contents	SECOND SINFONIETTA was created in 2018 for the Junge Bläserphilharmonie Nordrhein-Westfalen and its artistic director Timor Oliver Chadik. The piece is divided into four interwoven movements, each with its own unique character. The first movement is dreamy and floating, fleeting on the one hand, but characterized by continuity on the other. Despite a resting "outer" body, the dreamer experiences numerous, alternating images on the "inside". A sound field stretches over a constant pulse that is permeated by polyrhythms and bitonality - the superimposition of several rhythmic and harmonic levels. While "Reverie" serves as a kind of introduction or prelude, the following "Scherzo" presents the two main musical themes of the composition. The first theme - introduced by the solo flute at the end of the first movement - is based on a Hungarian folk song, is light and dance-like and childishly playful. Béla Bartók, whose work I greatly value and admire, opens his first piano method for children with this simple, clearly structured music under the title "Children at Play". The second theme in 6/8 time - introduced by the E-flat clarinet - is more of a search, is erratic and tends to "overshoot the mark". In the spirit of (musical) playing that springs from pure joy, both themes are constantly changed and developed. The third movement is very chamber music-like and creates space for numerous solo parts. It is thoughtful and reflective and leads into the vastness of the night. Although the music still springs from the two main musical themes, it now seems to come to rest for the first (and also the last) time. The last movement, "Finale," functions as a kind of short development, in which the two characteristic themes of the piece are processed and mixed in an energetic presto and concluded with a furious coda. Without having received any specific instructions from the commissioning orchestra, from a musical point of view it was above all the high level of virtuosity and great joy in playing of the musicians that inspired me when writing the SECOND SINFONIETTA. From a programmatic point of view, it was the fact that the orchestra members are all young people (up to the age of 25). Behind the subtitle "Daily Divertimento" - "Divertimento" comes from Italian and means "pleasure" - there is nothing more than the daily joy of constantly discovering (new things), learning and maturing. I. Reverie II. Scherzo III. Nocturne IV. Finale
Sample score	click here
Video sample	click here
Available	yes
ergänzender Text	click here

	Format	EUR
	Second Sinfonietta ("Daily Divertimento") (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Gaudiubilate, audio CD

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