Price: £3.50
Item code: MM51| Five Diversions for Piano |
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| Date of composition | 1949/1950 |
| Opus number | 1a |
| Type of work | Concert music |
| Duration | 13½ mins |
| Musical forces | Piano |
| Publisher | Modus Music |
| Archive location | Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library) |
| Archive contents | MS / BLYTON 14 [Original Four Diversions] |
| Notes | Originally Four Diversions (withdrawn); subsequently A Little Waltz from Two Waltzes, op. 8 was added; movements are: 1. Vacilación (Habañera); 2. The Lake at Evening; 3. The Girl with the Auburn Hair; 4. Twilit Willows; 5. A Little Waltz |
Review
The music is peaceable, subtly textured and blessed. The sequence ends with a Little Waltz which is dedicated to Blyton’s piano teacher of his teenage years.