Christiaan Janssen

(Choir and Concert Band)

(Choir and Concert Band)

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. Hect...

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. Hect...

Most of the music which Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger Christia...

Most of the music which Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger Christia...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The complete work was premiered, with the...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The complete work was premiered, with the...

Sensemayß (1938) of Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas is a dance of archaic nature rooted in primitivism. It is a kind of Latin Rite of Spring, full of the mythological dances of the Mayas and the...

Sensemayá (1938) of Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas is a dance of archaic nature rooted in primitivism. It is a kind of Latin Rite of Spring, full of the mythological dances of the Mayas and the...

Only after John Golland passed away in 1993 the score of his Tuba Concerto Op. 46 was found. The first performance of this work was given by Andrew Duncan and the Halle Orchestra at the Halle Proms at...

The opera "Macbeth" was first performed in Florence in 1847. A second revised version was premiered in the Paris Theatre Lyrique in 1865. The chorus "Patria oppressa" is sung at the very beginning of...

Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, is the common Western title for an orchestral work based on Spanish folk melodies and written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887. Rimsky-Korsakov originally intended to wri...

Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar (1862 - 1941) parodied the conventions of Romantic opera in his own operas and secular cantatas, his music itself is staunchly Romantic in voice, little troubled by even...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Der Ring des Nibelungen è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner, basate su personaggi delle saghe norrene e del "Nibelungenlied". "Das Rheingold" è la prima opera del...

Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the...

Many see Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" as the beginning of the move away from common practice harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the...