Conga del Fuego Nuevo' was included on the program of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and played at a New Years Concert in Germany for Arte Television. Agai...
Puciini's famous aria from the Opera Gianni Schicchi in an arramgement for Clarinet Quintet.
Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (1851-1909) was a Spanish composer who wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas and is considered one of the most popu...
'Vesperae solennes de Confessore', KV 339, is a sacred work composed in 1780 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was composed for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral. 'Laudate Dominum' is the 5th move...
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...
The Cavatina 'Quel guarda il cavaliere' is sung in the first act of Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale by the young Norina .She comments on a novel she is reading, but also dwells on her skills as a charm...
Il compositore spagnolo Pedro Iturralde (*1929) deve essere considerato sia il pioniere che il capostipite della musica jazz spagnola. Pequena Czarda (piccola danza) è un piccolo pezzo virtuoso per sa...
Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (nota anche come Aria del catalogo) è un'aria dell'opera "Don Giovanni" di Mozart su libretto italiano di Lorenzo Da Ponte. È cantata nella scena 5 del primo atto dell'...
The moving prayer of Desdemona from Act IV of Otello. The accompaniment is arranged exclusively for woodwinds only. (Soprano and Concert Band)
The duet La ci darem la mano (Give me the hand) from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is sung in the first act when Don Giovanni asks the peasant daughter Zerlina to marry hem. (Soprano, Baritone and Conce...
In the central part of the concerto, the Adagio, Mozart's preoccupation with cantabile melody opens a new world of sonority.It opens with a melody which must be one of the most beautiful ever written,...
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)...
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...
Tannhäuser is one of Richard Wagner's richest and most elaborate musical achievements. A mood of autumnal melancholy imbues the third and final act: Wolfram feels the chill hand of impending death, bu...
Tschaikovsky composed his Solo Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both some...
Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, the composer conducted the orchestra of...
Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. The Operetta...
Johannes Brahms composed the Alt-Rhapsodie in September of 1869 as a wedding gift to the daughter of his close friend and confidant, Clara Schumann. The Alt-Rhapsodie is set to several verses of a poe...
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his second piano concerto in 1957 as a birthday gift for his 19-year-old son Maxim who premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. The eager, brilli...
The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...