Jean Françaix (1912-1997): Dixtuor (1987)

Dixtuor for string quintet and wind quintet by Jean Françaix.
1. Larghetto tranquillo - Allegro
2. Andante
3. Scherzando
4. Allegro moderato
Ayana Terauchi, flute; Megan Wojtyla, oboe; Taylor Isberg, clarinet; Daniel Fendrick, bassoon; Lorenzo Robb, horn; Rose Brown & Dana Johnson, violins; James Cunningham, viola; Nathan Walhout, cello; Tommy Hawthorne, double bass. Recorded live on Saturday, April 20, 2019 in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Recorded by Eddie Sundra.

[@clintgolub1751]

Movements III and IV have the same light energetic playfulness and jovial vivaciousness as Ottorino Respighi‘s score for the 1919 ballet “The Magic Toyshop” (La Boutique fantasque), or Rimsky-Korsakov‘s 1900 fun little piece, “Flight of the Bumblebee”.
I always appreciate when composers like this or others like Camille Saint-Saëns with parts of his suite “Carnival of the Animals” add something like this to their oeuvre, even if some of them are embarrassed by them in their lifetimes (as Saëns was with Carnival sadly).

[@Sizalyth]

10:40 my favourite movement ;)

[@clintgolub1751]

Same! That’s where III: “Scherzando” picks up 😊