Wil van der Beek

A lovely and historic addition to your holiday concert! He Shall Feed His Flock, the uplifting air from Handel's Messiah, will serve equally well in festival and concert programs at any time of year....

It is interesting to recall that Handel wrote Messiah, his most famous work whilst at the lowest point of his career, suffereing from fianantial hardship and depression. It was only composing that dis...

Wil van der Beek verschmolz in A Classical Christmas Weihnachtsmusik Stücke von drei berühmten französischen Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts: ein französisches Weihnachtslied von Cesar Franck, ein ex...

The retinue of the wine god Bacchus' - just the title of this well-known work from the Sylvia ballet by Léo Delibes engenders a sense of excitement. Wil van der Beek's excellent instrumentation makes...

Grieg's suite from 'Sigurd Jorsalfar' remains one of his most popular works and here, arranged by Wil van der Beek, we are pleased to be able to offer a version for Concert Band. This one will be a su...

Grieg's suite from 'Sigurd Jorsalfar' remains one of his most popular works and here, arranged by Wil van der Beek, we are pleased to be able to offer a version for Concert Band. This one will be a su...

Grieg's suite from 'Sigurd Jorsalfar' remains one of his most popular works and here, arranged by Wil van der Beek, we are pleased to be able to offer a version for Concert Band. This one will be a su...

Along with the movement In the King's Hall, The Homage March from Act III of Sigurd Jorsalfar remains one of the most popular Scandinavian pieces of classical music. This arrangement has, once again,...

The overture from the opera Zampa by Ferdinand Hérold is well-known and well-loved with many people knowing it as a work for piano duet. Thanks to this great arrangement by Wil van der Beek it is now...

Zampa (1831) ist eine der erfolgreichsten Opern von L. J. Ferdinand Heold, die heute noch auf der ganzen Welt auf den Opernspielplänen zu finden ist. Wil van der Beek arrangierte die Ouvertüre aus die...

Am 3. Februar 2009 feiert die Musikwelt den 200. Geburtstag von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847). Obwohl jung gestorben, hinterliess er ein umfangreiches Werk, wozu der beliebteste aller Hoch...

Der Schauplatz von Leichte Kavallerie, einer komischen Oper in zwei Akten aus dem Jahr 1866, ist Ungarn. Die hier bearbeitete Ouvertüre ist berühmt und spricht das Publikum besonders durch ihre feurig...

The French composer Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782-1871) witnessed many important developments in the history of music ? from Luigi Cherubini to Richard Wagner. His extensive output consisted main...

The French composer Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782-1871) witnessed many important developments in the history of music ? from Luigi Cherubini to Richard Wagner. His extensive output consisted main...

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) coltivava l'arte di ironizzare sulla frivolezza delle abitudini parigine, sull'amore, sulla vita politica e la vita militare. La sua operetta Orfeo agli Inferni (1858) è...

Paul Dukas (1865-1935) was a composer who had little self-confidence and was very self-critical. As a result of this he destroyed the manuscripts of all but seven large and five small works. Luckily h...

Richard Wagner è un compositore unico: arricchisce l'armonia di aggregazioni fino ad allora non utilizzate, le sue orchestrazioni sono diverse da quelle dei suoi contemporanei, le sue melodie sembrano...

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) is considered as the one of the most important representatives of the French opéra-comique. His style is characterised by natural, unembellished melody lines, str...

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) is considered as the one of the most important representatives of the French opéra-comique. His style is characterised by natural, unembellished melody lines, str...

Il compositore tedesco Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (1767-1831) ha composto messe, vespri ed inni, musica militare nonché un Concerto per Clarinetto. La sua opera per coro Transeamus usque Bethlehem è cantat...

Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...