Sextet for Wood Wind

Original Score for “Sextet for Wood Wind”

Press Notices

“The six movements of the new Serenade confirm his reputation as a specialist in wind-writing and a stylist whose patent French sympathies neither obscure nor prejudice his own musical personality.

An affinity with Ravel was certainly manifest in the slow episode of the finale and the combination of harp and wind inevitably recalled the Introduction and Allegro which has already appeared in the programme. But Addisons’s grouping of his chosen sonorities, his characteristic figuration and rhythms are entirely his own.

He diversified the work by varying the weight and texture from movement to movement, giving some a predominantly tutti character and making others virtually solo quartets.

The highly skilled treatment of the individual instruments and a thematic connection between the movements make this work, despite the unpretentious character of its material, a rare example of serious chamber music which is also immediately accessible to the ordinary listener.” - The Daily Telegraph, London

Programme for first performance of “Sextet for Wood Wind”, Opus 3

John Addison’s Original Score for Flute from “Sextet for Wood Wind”

Announcement of “Sextet for Wood Wind”

Brochure from the International Musikfest of Frankfurt