Welcome to our 'Mainely' Chamber Music Opener! This week's chamber music concert features Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra, plus works by Schubert, Beach, and Brahms.
Composed during a brief peaceful period approaching the fraught final years of his life, Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra is a genre-defying work which infuses the form of a Baroque concerto grosso with Modernist elements. Polyrhythm and folk elements—hallmarks of Bartók’s works—invigorate a traditional compositional form.