Nikolai Tcherepnin, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, composed this Divertimento in 1943. The work was first published after his death. As the title suggests, the piece is both playful and serene, though its unusual design differs from the kind of structure the genre normally entails. Thus there are two short outer movements in B flat major which encapsulate lengthy solo passages for each of the three instruments. The length of these “Improvisations” (incidentally, they are written without bar lines) ...

• I Promenade aux Champs
• II Improvisations a) Flûte Solo, b) Hautbois Solo, c) Basson Solo
• III Le Retour