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Questa composizione riunisce una successione d'impressioni vissute durante un week-end nella 'Grande mela'. Il brano inizia con una descrizione del paesaggio urbano. La trama continua su un'aria di bl...

Il Natale è la festa delle tradizioni e ciò si riscontra facilmente nei canti natalizi che da secoli occupano un posto di primo piano nella tradizione cristiana. A Medieval Christmas propone tre antic...

Sotto molti aspetti Namasé Rhapsody si allontana dallo stile tipico di Van der Roost. La composizione colpisce per i suoi numerosi riferimenti alla musica di John Adams. Il primo movimento, minimalist...

María Gil Herrero was specially commissioned by Antonio Estevan, a great connoisseur and lover of music for wind band. This piece is dedicated to Estevan's wife María to commemorate the celebration, i...

I suoni allettanti di una fanfara scendono a valle dal versante della montagna. Un escursionista si ferma e guarda in alto per ammirare la bellezza della montagna. Tuttavia, la prudenza è d'obbligo, p...

Nostradamus è probabilmente il profeta più noto degli ultimi 1000 anni. Visse all'epoca dell'Inquisizione e le sue predizioni e terapie mediche lo portarono ad affrontare l'ira della Chiesa, costringe...

Gilbert Tinner ha scelto di arrangiare uno dei più grandi successi dei Tijuana Brass: A Taste of Honey. Questo moderno arrangiamento incanta per la sua strumentazione colorita e i suoi passaggi scinti...

With Caucasian Sketches Franco Cesarini completes the series of piecesbased on dances in the Caucasian style which started with his CossackFolk Dances. The charming, melancholy dances and songs bring...

The Black River Overture was commissioned by the music society Pfarrkapelle Schwarzenbach, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Schwarzenbach literally means 'black brook' - hence the title of the...

The tender ballad Killing Me Softly with His Song was written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel in 1971, for de American singer Lori Lieberman. She was very impressed with a performance by the then sti...

In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overt...

Ireland is a multi-faceted country that has developed a popular and distinctive musical culture. The first movement of Dublin Pictures reflects Irish festivals where there is dancing and traditional b...

Bulgarian folk music has a long tradition and numerous typical characteristics, such as particular dissonances and complex, irregular rhythms. In Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (which can be performed tog...

Arizona is written in a typical three-part overture form. The composition is not strictly descriptive as such, but rather conveys moods and emotions, inspired by impressions of the American desert sta...

On 11 March 1879 in the Austrian town of Neumarkt am Wallersee a huge fire broke out in a brewery, setting fire to at least 60 other houses within one hour. Due to poor equipment and a lack of water,...

Rikudim (Hebrew for Dances) is a four-part dance suite based on Jewish music. By using eastern intervals and irregular time changes, the composer succeeds in creating a slightly melancholy but specifi...

Jacob de Haan compose questo brano nel 1987 su incarico della provincia olandese di Groningen per celebrare il giorno della liberazione. La musica simboleggia il sogno di un mondo senza guerre. Free W...

This fantastic opener opens with a soft and lyrical middle section follows on the powerful opening fanfare which, if the technical equipment is available, can be used as background music for a spoken...

In Japan, July the 7th is a holiday known as Tanabata, for which large celebrations are held throughout the country. The holiday is based on a legend about a young man and a young woman who are separa...

This 'Grand Overture' was commissioned by the 'Nagano Community Band' - Japan- on occasion of its jubilee in 1992 and is dedicated to the band's conductor, Ikuo Inagaki. The work is based upon three m...