Four Sketches was written for Gordon Jacob's son, David. He began learning the bassoon at King's School, Canterbury with Ida Miller in February 1976, and made such rapid progress that she suggested he should ask his father to write him some pieces during the Easter holidays. David returned in the summer term with Four Sketches. Gordon Jacob wrote his first orchestral pieces at Dulwich College in London where he was educated and developed his composing skills as a prisoner during the First Wor...