In 2015 Philipp Matthias Kaufmann was commissioned to write an arrangement for chamber ensemble with motifs of Humperdinck's famous opera. While the instrumentation offered a variety of possibilities soundwise, with the required 7 minutes playing time it was a challenging task for him to confine the arrangement to just a few motifs.

Kaufmann chose a dramaturgic coherence for his arrangement; a 'pocket-sized' instrumental fairytale was the result.Based on a version of the beautiful overture, t...