Baton Music

Fantasia on Christmas Carols è un'opera del 1912 per baritono, coro e orchestra del compositore inglese Ralph Vaughan Williams. La Fantasia è un'opera in un unico movimento che consiste nei canti popo...

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. Also available as seperate edi...

Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) composed his ballet Nuits d'Egypte, based on Théophile Gautier's novella 'Une nuit de Cléopatre', in 1900. The ballet was programmed by Serge Diaghilev at hi...

Just seeing its title, the Tipsy Song may not be immediately familiar. But hearing just one bar of it, it's the Annen-Polka with a vocal part in which a proper Victorian-era lady finds herself slightl...

In 1896 Edward Elgar submitted sketches for two new works to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One work was 'The Banner of St George', the other was the 'Imperial March'. Both captured the mood o...

In 1896 Edward Elgar submitted sketches for two new works to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One work was 'The Banner of St George', the other was the 'Imperial March'. Both captured the mood o...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

The 'Kaisermarsch' (Imperial March) is a patriotic march composed by Richard Wagner in 1871 in order to exalt the foundation of the German Empire after the victorious Franco-Prussian War. The 'Kaiserm...

The 'Kaisermarsch' (Imperial March) is a patriotic march composed by Richard Wagner in 1871 in order to exalt the foundation of the German Empire after the victorious Franco-Prussian War. The 'Kaiserm...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) last solo concerto was composed to help with an experiment: in an effort to break through the trumpet's limitations Anton Weidinger - a trumpeter of the Vienna Court Orchest...

Per la prima del 1809 della traduzione di Schiller della famosa storia di "Turandot", Carl Maria von Weber scrisse un'ouverture e sei pezzi correlati come musica secondaria con un tema unificante basa...

Per la prima del 1809 della traduzione di Schiller della famosa storia di "Turandot", Carl Maria von Weber scrisse un'ouverture e sei pezzi correlati come musica secondaria con un tema unificante basa...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) è stato un compositore, direttore d'orchestra e insegnante russo. Le sue opere comprendono opere, musica orchestrale, musica da camera e un gran numer...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) è stato un compositore, direttore d'orchestra e insegnante russo. Le sue opere comprendono opere, musica orchestrale, musica da camera e un gran numer...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Egyptischer Marsch Opus 335 is a beautiful...

Entry March of the Boyars, composed in 1895 by the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen, has been a popular orchestral favorite ever since and one of the best-known examples of Scandinavian orchestral m...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. His polka opus 332 'Eljen a Magyar!' (Hungaria...