The Oxford Dictionary of Music defines a bagatelle as a “short unpretentious instrumental composition, especially for piano. Ligeti derived these Sechs Bagatellen, six bagatelles, for woodwind quintet from an earlier set of eleven short movements for solo piano entitled Musica Ricercata (1951-53).

Ligeti, V. Adagio. Mesto (A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, F, F#, G#)

Ligeti, IV. Presto ruvido (A, B, C, C#, D, E, F#, G, G#)

Ligeti, III. Allegro grazioso (Ab, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G)

Ligeti, II. Rubato. Lamentoso (Ab, B, C#, D, F, G)

Ligeti, I. Allegro con spirito (C, E, Eb, G)

'La fille aux cheveux de lin' is a musical composition by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the eighth piece in the composer's first book of Préludes, written between late 1909 and early 1910. The piece is named after the eponymous poem by Leconte de Lisle and translates roughly to "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair".

Debussy, La fille aux cheveux de lin

Recorded from a live concert at Saint Martin-in-the-Fields on June 16th 2017.

German composer Danzi’s charming wind quintets not only helped establish the genre but are also some of the earliest in the repertoire. As young man he greatly revered Mozart and over his lifetime he was both a contemporary of Beethoven and mentor to Weber. His music reflects the transition from the late Classical to early Romantic periods.

Danzi, IV. Allegro

Danzi, III. Menuetto Allegretto

Danzi, II. Andante

Danzi, I. Allegretto

Cavendish Winds comprises of five London-based musicians hailed for their ‘impeccable ensemble sound, intonation and communication’ (Chris O’Neal). Formed at the Royal Academy of Music in Autumn 2014, the quintet has performed in concerts, educational projects and competitions in London and beyond.

Cavendish Winds

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