Essay about Sestetto
25 Oct 2021
Written by: Frits van der Waa
Translated by: Eileen J. Stevens
Published in: Et Cetera
With its distinctive combination of flute, harp, and strings, the sound palette of Sestetto, which Theo Verbey wrote in 1998, seems decidedly French. However, the composer was undoubtedly aware of that fact, and he made an effort in the course of the work’s four movements to counterbalance this aura…