BVT Music

Aria for soprano voice and concert band from the opera 'La Rondine' by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Starts with a cadenza for the piano, then Doretta sings her love dream.

Aria for soprano voice and fanfare band from' Les Contes D'Hoffman' by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Also known as the 'Doll Aria'.

Finale from the famous Cello Concerto by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) for cello and wind band. Requires a soloist of very high level.

For the arrival of the King in November 1918 Eugène Ysa e wrote this festive version of the Belgian anthem . Perfect opener for your remembrance concerts.

Lovely classic work from the Viennese repertoire written by Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855-1907). Known from the New Year's concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic.

'Marche et cortège' from the opera 'La Reine de Saba' ('Queen of Sheba') by Charles Gounod (1818-1893).

Famous Entr'acte from Carmen Suite No1 by Georges Bizet.

Arrangement from the famous Concerto in C by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) for two piccolo trumpets and wind band.

In November 1914 Debussy composed his Berceuse heroïque, original for piano, which was dedicated to 'His Masjesty King Albert I of Belgium and his soldiers'. A very nostalgic piece referring to the Be...

Cecil Coles was a Scottish composer who was killed by a German sniper in world war one, and is buried in Crouy (Northern-France). During WWI he sent manuscripts to his friend Gustav Holst, en his musi...

Popular composition by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, composed in 1928 as last movement of his suite Andalucia. Other famous versions were made and played by Stan Kenton, Bill Haley, Ritchie Valens,...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (French: L'apprenti sorcier) is a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897. The composition's musical storytelling is remarkably graphic, although...

Abendlied (Evening song) is a sacred motet by Josef Rheinberger for a six-part mixed choir. He wrote the first version in 1855 at the age of 15. It is perhaps his most famous choral work, which looks...

Lovely classic work from the Viennese repertoire written by Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855-1907). Known from the New Year's concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Famous Entr'acte from Carmen Suite No1 by Georges Bizet.

'Les Chemins de l'amour' - translated as 'The pathways of love (1940) was originally for voice and piano. A beautiful melody by French composer Francis Poulenc on words by Jean Anouilh based on a walt...

Cecil Coles was a Scottish composer who was killed by a German sniper in world war one, and is buried in Crouy (Northern-France). During WWI he sent manuscripts to his friend Gustav Holst, en his musi...

Popular composition by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, composed in 1928 as last movement of his suite Andalucia. Other famous versions were made and played by Stan Kenton, Bill Haley, Ritchie Valens,...

One of Sir Edward Elgar's strange and ethereal part songs, based on 'the lotos eaters' by Tennyson. It was written with the choir split across two keys a semitone apart, the men in G, the women in A-f...

Abendlied (Evening song) is a sacred motet by Josef Rheinberger for a six-part mixed choir. He wrote the first version in 1855 at the age of 15. It is perhaps his most famous choral work, which looks...

In the troubled world we live in these days it is really hard to stay positive. The alarming state of the climate, worldwide politics gone mad. It seems like the hate just keeps spreading in the world...

John Clifford Heed (1862-1908) composed more then 60 marches, 'In Storm and Sunshine' is one of his best known.