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Hansel e Gretel è sicuramente una delle più famose ouverture classiche che viene ancora spesso eseguita. Questa composizione conferisce uno slancio elegante a ogni concerto, ma è anche adatta a un con...

Cathedrals have always appealed to the imagination. Hundreds of years of manpower have been invested in their building and it is not for nothing that today they represent imposing symbols of architect...

Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this set...

Regiment of Heroes was written for and dedicated to 'The Presidents Own' United States Marine Band. This powerful composition opens with a lively syncopated figure followed by a contrasting melodic tr...

Le Nozze di Figaro è una delle tre opere che Mozart compose su libretto di Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), il famoso regista teatrale e poeta di corte viennese. L'ouverture de Le Nozze di Figaro è nella...

Le Nozze di Figaro è una delle tre opere che Mozart compose su libretto di Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), il famoso regista teatrale e poeta di corte viennese. L'ouverture de Le Nozze di Figaro è nella...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("Il rapimento dal serraglio") è un "singspiel" in tre atti di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Il libretto tedesco è di Gottlieb Stephanie, basato su "Belmont und Constanze, ode...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("Il rapimento dal serraglio") è un "singspiel" in tre atti di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Il libretto tedesco è di Gottlieb Stephanie, basato su "Belmont und Constanze, ode...

Madama Butterfly è un'opera in tre atti di Giacomo Puccini, su libretto italiano di Luigi Illica e Giuseppe Giacosa. È basata sul racconto "Madama Butterfly" (1898) di John Luther Long. La versione or...

Madama Butterfly è un'opera in tre atti di Giacomo Puccini, su libretto italiano di Luigi Illica e Giuseppe Giacosa. È basata sul racconto "Madama Butterfly" (1898) di John Luther Long. La versione or...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Die Zauberflöte isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of t...

George Gershwin composed his "Cuban Overture" in July and August 1932. Originally was the work titled "Rumba" and was the result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1...

Many see Wagner's Tristan und Isolde as the beginning of the move away from common practice harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20...

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...

Black Granite is dedicated to the men and women who gave their lives in Vietnam, and whose names are forever engraved on the solemn black granite stone wall at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC. T...

Between the Two Rivers was commissioned by Fanfare 'Prins Hendrik', from Aalst in the Netherlands. The title derives from the fact that the town of Aalst lies between two tributaries of the River Domm...

Der Titel Hail the Dragon! bezieht sich auf das Werk The Year of the Dragon, das Philip Sparke im Jahre 1984 für denselben Auftraggeber geschrieben hat. Das Stück beginnt mit einer lebhaften, energier...

Overture for a Special Occasion wè un brano commissionato dal Corpo Bandistico della Città di Bad Säckingen in Germania nel 2011 in occasione del suo bicentenario. Nota per le sue terme, questa rident...

Second to None is a perfectly suitable title for this work, though it actually refers to 'Nulli Secundus', the motto of the British Corps of Army Music, who gave the commission to Philip Sparke. The...

The Way to Heaven was commissioned by the Royal Air Force Music Services. 2015 was the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which took place between July and October 1940, when the courageous fi...