Franco Cesarini

With this new suite for concert band Franco Cesarini draws on the rich repertoire of folk songs from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy. Between the 16th and 17th Century this rural re...

Foreign culture - art, literature and above all music - have long fascinated Franco Cesarini and often serve as a source of inspiration for his compositions. For Old Russian Romances, Cesarini immerse...

With Convergents Franco Cesarini has succeeded in composing a piece suitable for both concerts or contests which whilst not being too difficult still has the feel of a major work. This extremely rhyth...

Danze bulgare

Not much is known about the origin of Huntingtower, except for the fact that this ballad was composed in 1931 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936), commissioned by Edwin Franko Goldma...

Inspired by the operas of Bellini, Saverio Mercadante created this richly contrasting overture from lyrical and dramatic moments in his own works. This arrangement offers modern concert bands access t...

Franco Cesarini presents this valuable collection of pieces, intermediate in difficulty, from the Baroque period to the Impressionists at the beginning of the 20th century. Using these carefully selec...

With this new suite for concert band Franco Cesarini draws on the rich repertoire of folk songs from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy. Between the 16th and 17th Century this rural re...

Danze bulgare è una rapsodia libera, divisa in quattro movimenti distinti, basata su famose canzoni popolari bulgare. Questi canti hanno una tradizione antichissima e provengono sia dal mondo antico d...

Giuseppe Verdi è uno dei più famosi compositori dell'opera italiana. Qui, Cesarini ha magistralmente arrangiato il Nabucco.

The term 'salon music' - making music in private salons - was coined in the 19th century. During this period, the invention of the Böhm System and the resulting new sound and technical capabilities of...

Demand for studies which - in addition to technique - also concentrate on musicality, interpretation and expression, has increased during recent years. These are precisely the aspects advanced players...

Con gli splendidi brani di questa collezione, i flautisti possono familiarizzare con l'impressionismo musicale. Franco Cesarini ha selezionato e adattato otto famosi brani di Claude Debussy, il più no...

This book, which contains several arrangements of Romantic movements for flute and piano, is intended to give advanced flutists the opportunity to experience and become acquainted with more music of t...

The pieces collected in LA FLAUTA ROMANTICA were written by three of the greatest Spanish instrumental virtuosi of their time: the pianists Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados as well as the violinist...

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

Nimrod ist der Name der neunten und bekanntesten Variation in Edward Elgars Enigma Variations, einem Orchesterwerk mit 14 Variationen über ein ursprüngliches Thema, das zwischen 1898 und 1899 komponie...

Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...

In his 1st flute quartet, Swiss composer Franco Cesarini (born in 1961) is mainly trying to combine musical and didactic contents. In the progress of its musical development, the harmonic dissonances...

Ispirato all’antico nome di Lenzburg, Lencis di Franco Cesarini ci riporta alle radici medievali di questa storica città svizzera, il cui castello domina ancora oggi la valle dell’Aare. In tre movimen...

Ispirato all’antico nome di Lenzburg, Lencis di Franco Cesarini ci riporta alle radici medievali di questa storica città svizzera, il cui castello ancora oggi domina la valle dell’Aare. In tre movimen...

Con *Quadrants des rêves* (Quadranti dei sogni), Franco Cesarini invita l’ascoltatore a intraprendere uno straordinario viaggio nel mondo dei sogni — un universo sonoro nato dalla sua immaginazione pi...

Con *Quadrants des rêves* (Quadranti dei sogni), Franco Cesarini vi invita a intraprendere uno straordinario viaggio nel mondo dei sogni — un universo sonoro nato dalla sua immaginazione più profonda....

A wonderful original piece that is full of contrasts and perfect for displaying the versatility of the saxophone.