Spartiti per banda avanzata

This short sequence, composed as a tribute to the European Community, is intended for any public musical event, but can introduce a concert as well and, in a way, call for the attention of the audienc...

During the Second World War, Leroy Anderson was a captain with the American Intelligence Service. After the war he continued to work for the Defence Department in Washington for some years. At that ti...

This march is of a quite special kind. As its name indicates, it is a march in the form of a rhapsody. We've got changing tempi, exuberant fanfares, power and lyricism. One of the highlights from the...

This successful tune composed by Mills and Ellington belonged to the repertoire of the Duke Ellington Band, the complete title being It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing. All jazz fans ce...

This solemn concert march proves that also in The Netherlands some good original wind band music has been composed during the first half of the 19th century. This romantic triumphal march, typical for...

The German composer Max Bruch was born in 1838 and died in 1920. Shortly after his arrival in Britain in 1880, where he had been appointed musical director of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, he co...

In 1991 the Russian town Leningrad has been renamed Saint Petersburg again, after a period of more than 70 years. This piece, based on Russian folksongs, is dedicated to the people of this beautiful t...

Here is a kind of matrial hymn, composed in honour of the Olympics. Pieter Goemans wrote this work fort he Dutch Radio Orchestra 'Metropole Orkest' and here you have a skilful arrangement by Marcel Pe...

Without claiming to possess a 'Magic Formula' to realize this sequence, the composer fancied to imagine a Formula One race at Monza. The binary beat portrays the combustion engine. The exaggerated eff...