Baton Music

The Planets del compositore inglese Gustav Holst è una suite orchestrale in sette movimenti in cui ogni movimento prende il nome da un pianeta del sistema solare e dal suo corrispondente carattere ast...

The Planets del compositore inglese Gustav Holst è una suite orchestrale in sette movimenti in cui ogni movimento prende il nome da un pianeta del sistema solare e dal suo corrispondente carattere ast...

Il Grande Fulmine è un'opera incompiuta abbozzata nel 1932 da Dmitri Shostakovich, di cui riuscì a scrivere solo l'ouverture e gli 8 pezzi successivi. Sono sufficienti a farci capire che "Il grande la...

Il Grande Fulmine è un'opera incompiuta abbozzata nel 1932 da Dmitri Shostakovich, di cui riuscì a scrivere solo l'ouverture e gli 8 pezzi successivi. Sono sufficienti a farci capire che "Il grande la...

The 'Preludes' are short piano pieces by George Gershwin writtenin 1926. Each prelude is a well-known example of early-20th-century American classical music strongly influenced by jazz. Gershwin origi...

The 'Preludes' are short piano pieces by George Gershwin writtenin 1926. Each prelude is a well-known example of early-20th-century American classical music strongly influenced by jazz. Gershwin origi...

A Shropshire Lad è una raccolta di 63 poesie del poeta inglese Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936). Le poesie raccontano la caducità dell'amore e della giovinezza e parlano del dovere verso la patria, d...

A Shropshire Lad è una raccolta di 63 poesie del poeta inglese Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936). Le poesie raccontano la caducità dell'amore e della giovinezza e parlano del dovere verso la patria, d...

Johann Strauss jr. composed in 1864 the 'Persischer Marsch' (Persian March), Op. 289. It was dedicated this to his Majesty Nasir-ad-Din imperial Shah of Persia (1831 - 1896). The melody of the trio is...

Despite being very busy with three different Broadway musicals, Gershwin was able to complete the 'Concerto in F' for Piano and Orchestra in November, 1925. It was commissioned by the American conduct...

Despite being very busy with three different Broadway musicals, Gershwin was able to complete the 'Concerto in F' for Piano and Orchestra in November, 1925. It was commissioned by the American conduct...

Camille Saint-Saëns had a lifetime love for Algeria which he visited for the first time in 1875 and where he died in 1921. In 1880 he wrote his 'Suite Algérienne'. It's a work written in four movement...

Camille Saint-Saëns had a lifetime love for Algeria which he visited for the first time in 1875 and where he died in 1921. In 1880 he wrote his 'Suite Algérienne'. It's a work written in four movement...

La Vigilia di Natale è un'opera in quattro atti con musica e libretto di Rimsky-Korsakov, composta tra il 1894 e il 1895. Nel terzo atto dell'opera, un coro canta le lodi della zarina in una magnifica...

La Vigilia di Natale è un'opera in quattro atti con musica e libretto di Rimsky-Korsakov, composta tra il 1894 e il 1895. Nel terzo atto dell'opera, un coro canta le lodi della zarina in una magnifica...

Arthur De Greef (1862 - 1940) è stato un compositore e pianista belga. Tra le sue opere vi sono concerti per pianoforte, la "Fantasia su canti popolari fiamminghi" per pianoforte e orchestra, opere vo...

Arthur De Greef (1862 - 1940) è stato un compositore e pianista belga. Tra le sue opere vi sono concerti per pianoforte, la "Fantasia su canti popolari fiamminghi" per pianoforte e orchestra, opere vo...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Polka-schnell Par force! is a beautiful example of Strauss' rich o...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Polka-schnell Par force! is a beautiful example of Strauss' rich o...

Josef Hellmesberger Jr. was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor. His compositions include operettas, ballets, lieder and a variety of dances such as the 'Danse diabolique' ('Teufelstanz' or...

Josef Hellmesberger Jr. was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor. His compositions include operettas, ballets, lieder and a variety of dances such as the 'Danse diabolique' ('Teufelstanz' or...

Reinhold Glière, a Russian composer of Belgian descent. As a composer Glière followed the Russian romantic tradition, something that brought him official praise in 1948 when the music of Prokofiev and...

Reinhold Glière, a Russian composer of Belgian descent. As a composer Glière followed the Russian romantic tradition, something that brought him official praise in 1948 when the music of Prokofiev and...

Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Pr...

Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen composed incidental music for the play 'Vasantasena' in 1896 while he worked as a theater conductor in Bergen. Later he selected four numbers for performance as a co...