Baton Music

Künstlerleben (Artist's Life) op. 316 is a waltz written by Johann Strauss jr. in 1867, following closely on the success of the popular "The Blue Danube" waltz. The waltz was presented at the "Hesperu...

Carmen è probabilmente l'opera più famosa dell'intero repertorio operistico, anche se la sua prima nel 1875 fu una grande delusione. Il coro "Vivat! Vivat le Torero!" è cantato nel secondo atto dell'o...

Carmen is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. The chorus "Vivat! Vivat le Toréro!" is sung in the second act of the...

The oratorio "Mors et Vita" (Death and Life) is the continuation of "The Redemption" and was the second of a proposed trilogy of oratorios written on commission by Charles Gounod for the Birmingham Fe...

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his "Fantasia on Serbian Themes" (also known as the "Serbian Fantasy") in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performance of this piece in May of that year. The "Fantasy" wa...

Die Afrikanerin è una quadriglia viennese che Johann Strauss basò sui temi dell'opera "L'Africaine" di Meyerbeer. Fu ascoltata per la prima volta al Volksgarten di Vienna il 7 luglio 1865 durante un f...

Die Afrikanerin è una quadriglia viennese che Johann Strauss basò sui temi dell'opera "L'Africaine" di Meyerbeer. Fu ascoltata per la prima volta al Volksgarten di Vienna il 7 luglio 1865 durante un f...

Le "Zigeunerweisen" (Arie gitane) per violino e orchestra di Pablo de Sarasate furono scritte nel 1878 e presentate per la prima volta nello stesso anno a Lipsia. "Zigeunerweisen" è in assoluto la com...

Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" (Gypsy Airs) for Violin and Orchestra was written in 1878 and premiered during the same year in Leipzig. It is based on themes of the Roma people, specifically the...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

Verdi compose "Un Ballo in Maschera" per il Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, dove sarebbe dovuto andare in scena durante la stagione di carnevale del 1858. Il libretto narrava la vera storia del re liberal...

The "Stabat Mater" is the best known work of Giovanni Pergolesi's. It was commissioned by the "Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo" who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in ho...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, l'ultimo dei Tribuni) è un'opera giovanile di Richard Wagner in cinque atti, con il libretto scritto dal compositore sulla base dell'omonimo romanzo d...

Ollantay è una delle ultime partiture del periodo nazionalista del compositore argentino Alberto Ginastera. L'immaginario per la musica proviene dal "Popol Vuh", o Libro del Consiglio, un insieme di m...

Ollantay is one of the last scores of his nationalistic period of the Argentin composer Alverto Ginastera. The imagery for the music comes from the "Popol Vuh", or Council Book, an assemblage of Mayan...

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

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...

Although Arturo Marquez was already an accomplished composer in Mexico, his music started to reach the international stage with the introduction of his series of Danzones in the early 1990s. This vene...

Although Arturo Márquez was already an accomplished composer in Mexico, his music started to reach the international stage with the introduction of his series of Danzónes in the early 1990s. This vene...

Soprano, Mezzo Soprano and Symphonic Band From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera 'Hänsel und Gretel' was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone...