1. Con decisión
2. Muy dulce
3. Vivo

1943 Rosa Sabater, piano. Palau de la Música Catalana. Barcelona.

1983 Version for two pianos dedicated to the Dúo Zanetti-Turina.

Symphonic version in the ballet La Muerta enamorada.

Transcriptions of the Dolce (havanera) for guitar, violin and guitar, flute and guitar, vibraphone and guitar.

Comments

"Tres divertimentos reflects the happiness of a healthy soul, undamaged by the materialistic struggle against life: they emanate the frankest mediterranian joy, this superior well-being that is so natural, and not at all childish. it is music of direct expression without promlems and detached from the weight of the world. it exhales ondulating melody, sonorous beauty. Xavier Montsalvatge could be considered the most mediterranian composer of all contemporary music. Brightness, amenity and beauty are its predicates."

Santiago Kastner.

"Those habaneras from the tents, those "xotis", such humble and folkloric music, Montsalvatge turns it into beautiful romantic impressions, perhaps with a dominating sense of ironic intimacy in the first one, gentle nostalgia in the second and a parody of a "jota" from popular parties in the third. Three vastly happy impressions, the pianistic technique of which atributes original and expressive character."

Eduardo López Chávarri. Valencia.

"Tres divertimentos was premiered with great success by Rosa Sabater at the Palau de la Música Catalana. A deciso in the style of a "xotis" and a vivo inspired by a waltz-"jota" surround a more popular landscape: the dolce in the form of a habanera. On 1983, Montsalvatge wrote an arrangement for piano four hands, which could also be interpreted on two pianos, which was premiered in the Círculo de las Bellas Artes de Madrid on the 16th of January of 1984 by the hands of Miguel Zanetti and Fernando Turina. Likewise, Narciso Yepes arranged for guitar the famous habanera."

Lluís Trullén, 1999.