Spartiti per banda avanzata

Jan van der Waart was one of the most popular television presenters in the 70s and 80s. Concert bands were always one of his favourite hobbies and he wrote a number of works which could be performed w...

The TROMBONE CONCERTO was composed at the request of Michel BECQUET and Gilles MILLIERE. Both talented trombone players had deeply impressed the composer. The brilliant work, dedicated to both virtuos...

The Italian composer Saverio Mercadante lived from 1795 up to 1870. Beside some 60(!) operas he wrote a number of concerti such as this Concerto for Horn, here in a skillfull arrangement for band by W...

The Transit of Venus is a work inspired by the soundtracks of science fiction movies related to space, the composition of which was initiated during the space phenomenon occurred in 2004 which the sci...

Finalmente abbiamo un concerto solista interessante e abbastanza suonabile per la tuba, uno strumento a fiato troppo spesso sottovalutato. Questo concerto è stato scritto e dedicato al suonatore di tu...

This musical work seeks to portray the various stages that make up a climb to the mountain of Pico. The summit of the mountain is 2351 meters above mean sea level, being the highest point in Portugal....

Selkies were creatures, which looked something like grey seals. They were guardians of the sea, and protected the sailors navigating their passages across the ocean. Once a year they would come ashore...

Da giovane, Andrew Pearce aveva un bel ricordo di quando suonava la cornetta nella locale Youth Brass Band, dove ha sperimentato per la prima volta la potenza e la bellezza della musica per ottoni. Do...

Da giovane, Andrew Pearce aveva un bel ricordo di quando suonava la cornetta nella locale Youth Brass Band, dove ha sperimentato per la prima volta la potenza e la bellezza della musica per ottoni. Do...

The idea of composing an original piece for band, appeared at the birth of the composers daughter. In this piece the brass section takes a leading role with introducing the themes while the woodwinds...

'Falling Rocks' is reminiscent of the landslide in Dobratsch, Austria and the resulting despair of the population afterwards, musically represented by 'A Folk Song'. 'Black Death, Bonaparte and the En...

Built as a rhapsodic suite, in the style of the great band composers from the early XX century (also nationalists and proud of their folk music), this piece has 9 small connected parts in a free form,...

The Cotton Phoenix is the first part of the two-part work 'Metropolis of the East' and describes the influence of the textile industry on the development of Enschede. The composition begins introducin...

In the second part of the two-piece work Metropolis of the East is the Old Market, the centre point of the city of Enschede in the Netherlands. Elements such as the Great Church, the monument to the c...

Lights in the Mirror was commissioned by the Yahata High School Band (Fukuoka, Japan) on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of their annual concert in august 2016. Mirroring and looking at the heart...

It is a wedding. There is laughter. There is singing. New love is in the making. Old friendships revive. Then, at once, everybody moves to the dance floor and wrap their arms around each other. On the...

Shapes was commissioned by the municipality Smallingerland and written for the ONFK 2018 in Drachten. The starting point for this composition is the art movement De Stijl, which was founded a hundred...