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Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was one of the leading Finnish composers of the first half of the twentieth century. He was comfortable using the sorts of nationalistic subjects that attracted Sibelius, and sometimes achieves much the same mood in his music, although he uses a considerably different musical vocabulary that owes more to French impressionism than to the music of his great Finnish predecessor.

The character of Esko Nummisuutari, created by playwright Aleksis Kivi in the 1860s, has long been a favourite one in the Finnish theater. (The character's long surname literally means 'Cobbler on the Heath'; the overture is about this character and not about a cobbler.) The character sometimes bumbles and is clumsy and unlucky in love, but he also is appealing. The overture is a portrait of him, and is not intended for actual use as a theatrical overture to the play. The style of the music is mildly neo-classical in the manner than Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin is. The orchestration is refined though its colors rapidly change, and the form of the work is that of a pretty traditional overture.

This is the sort of thing that would make a perfect concert opener. Why is it, I wonder, that it's become unfashionable to open concerts like they used to? It works really well, and warms up both orchestra and audience. I remember with great fondness a performance of Malcolm Arnold's overtures Beckus the Dandipratt which opened a Gaiety Theatre concert by the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra as it then was. It was brilliant, and would go down really well these days too.