Baton Music

Andreas van Zoelen (* 1978) is a saxophonist and composer of Dutch/Moravian descent. He studied conducting and saxophone at the Brabants Conservatorium in the Netherlands, with Jean Pennings. He start...

For the Danse Macabre, Saint-SaÙns turned to the 'Dance of the Death', which appears in various versions in the Art of the later Middle Ages. Saint-SaÙns evokes (using the xylophone) the midnight cavo...

In the fall of 1928, Dmitri Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), completed this arrangement for orchestra, Tahiti Trot. The original music is from a song Tea for Two that Vincent Youmans (1898 - 1946) w...

'Ernani 'is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed in 1844...

'Ernani 'is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed in 1844...

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...

....Now I have a young King who really loves me ecstatically; you cannot conceive what that means. I remember a dream which I had in my youth: I dreamed that Shakespeare was living, and that I saw him...

....Now I have a young King who really loves me ecstatically; you cannot conceive what that means. I remember a dream which I had in my youth: I dreamed that Shakespeare was living, and that I saw him...

The 'Klipp-Klapp Galopp' ('Click-clack Gallop') is a quick polka by Johann Strauss. The polka was created according to the motifs of the operetta 'Waldmeister' ('Woodruff') and is part of a series of...

The 'Klipp-Klapp Galopp' ('Click-clack Gallop') is a quick polka by Johann Strauss. The polka was created according to the motifs of the operetta 'Waldmeister' ('Woodruff') and is part of a series of...

In the fall of 1928, Dmitri Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), completed this arrangement for orchestra, Tahiti Trot. The original music is from a song Tea for Two that Vincent Youmans (1898 - 1946) w...

In the years 1873-76 Franz Liszt composed 'Weihnachtsbaum' (Christmas Tree), a suite 12 of pieces for solo piano and later for piano four-hands. The suite does not demand great virtuosity and it has b...

In the years 1873-76 Franz Liszt composed 'Weihnachtsbaum' (Christmas Tree), a suite 12 of pieces for solo piano and later for piano four-hands. The suite does not demand great virtuosity and it has b...

Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera 'Il Trovatore' lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the aria 'D'amor sull'ali rosee'. It is sung by Leonora in the fourth act of the Opera: Manri...

Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera 'Il Trovatore' lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the aria 'D'amor sull'ali rosee'. It is sung by Leonora in the fourth act of the Opera: Manri...

Giacomo Puccini's opera 'Tosca' might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...

Giacomo Puccini's opera 'Tosca' might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...

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 '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...

After the 'Battle of Vitoria', Beethoven's friend Johann Nepomuk Maelzel talked him into writing a composition for his panharmonicon (a kind of 'mechanical orchestra') to commemorating this battle. Th...

After the 'Battle of Vitoria', Beethoven's friend Johann Nepomuk Maelzel talked him into writing a composition for his panharmonicon (a kind of 'mechanical orchestra') to commemorating this battle. Th...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

In this transcription Marco Tamanini has combined two martial sections of the opera into a march-fantasy in the great Italian tradition. (Concert Band)

Franz Schubert's 'Symphony No. 8' in B minor, D 759, commonly known as the 'Unvollendete' ('Unfinished Symphony'), is a composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements - tho...