Baton Music

'Cantique de Noël' ('O Holy Night') is a Christmas carol composed by French composer Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the poem 'Minuit, Chrétiens' ('Midnight, Christians') by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a win...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and othe...

Il Danzon n. 2 del compositore messicano Arturo Marquez è stato incluso nel programma dell'Orchestra Giovanile Simon Bolivar del Venuzuela, diretta da Gustavo Dudamel, durante la tournée del 2007 in E...

Guerra e pace di Prokofiev è un'opera epica in 13 scene, più un'ouverture e un'epigrafe, basata sul romanzo di Leone Tolstoj. Essa contrappone la "pace" dell'alta società russa alla "guerra" dell'inva...

Guerra e pace di Prokofiev è un'opera epica in 13 scene, più un'ouverture e un'epigrafe, basata sul romanzo di Leone Tolstoj. Essa contrappone la "pace" dell'alta società russa alla "guerra" dell'inva...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) fu una figura centrale della grande opera francese antica, noto per la sua elegante scrittura melodica e lo stile orchestrale chiaro e teatrale. 'La Muette de...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) fu una figura centrale della grande opera francese antica, noto per la sua elegante scrittura melodica e lo stile orchestrale chiaro e teatrale. 'La Muette de...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) fu una figura centrale della grande opera francese antica, noto per la sua elegante scrittura melodica e lo stile orchestrale chiaro e teatrale. 'La Muette de...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) fu una figura centrale della grande opera francese antica, noto per la sua elegante scrittura melodica e lo stile orchestrale chiaro e teatrale. 'La Muette de...

The Wasps' is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was based on Aristophane's ancient Greek comedy 'The Wasps' for a production at Trinity College, Camb...

La Gazza Ladra di Rossini è un melodramma o "opera semiseria" in due atti su libretto di Giovanni Gherardini basato su "La pie voleuse" di Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubigny e Louis-Charles Caigniez...

Danzón no. 2 by the Mexican composer Arturo Márquez was included on the program of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venuzuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on their 2007 tour of Europe and the Unit...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

Anton Bruckner compose i suoi "Kleine Orchesterstücke" nel 1862 come primo tentativo in quel campo che in seguito avrebbe fatto suo: la musica orchestrale. Questi quattro pezzi sono piccoli e melodios...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The Csardas, sung by Rosalinde demands great virtuosity and gypsy fee...

The Gypsy Chorus (Coro di Zingari) 'Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie' is the opening of the second act of he opera Il Trovatore. It is dawn at a gypsy encampment in Biscay, the gypsies prepare for the...

Although Franz Lehár became most known for his contribution to the operetta repertoire, he also composed a lot of marches. One of these is 'Piave induló' (Piave Marsch, Marche form the 106th Regiment)...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

The Toy Symphony, (Kinder-Sinfonie) was also published as Sinfonia Berchtolsgadensis because it was written for instruments that were manufactured in the toy industry of Berchtensgaden that flourished...

Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) is a Christmas carol composed by French composer Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the poem "Minuit, Chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a wine merc...

Ecce sacerdos magnus (Ecco un grande sacerdote), WAB 13, è un mottetto sacro del 1885 del compositore austriaco Anton Bruckner. Si tratta di un'ambientazione musicale dell'omonima antifona. L'opera è...

As a composer, Johann Strauss Sr. is probably less well known than his son Johann Strauss Jr., but his 'Radeztky March' is still one of the most popular pieces in classical music. Besides this march h...

In 1869 Johann Strauss composed the polka francaise 'Im Krapfenwald'l' ('In Krapfen's Woods'). It was originally titled 'Im Pawlowsk Walde' when first performed in Pavlovsk (Russia). Reportedly, sever...