Divertimento dates from May 1956 and started life as a fun piece for the reed trio so popular with the French. Later, Mary Chandler re-scored the piece for Flute, Oboe and Piano, to suit the group with which she was then working. It has been played in both forms ­— the Piano Trio version was broadcast by the Aulos Trio in the late 1950s. This original reed trio version was first published by Phylloscopus Publications in 1992.