HAFABRA Louis Martinus

Coconut woman - Island in the sun - Jump in the line

Flexible instrumentation:

In 1992 I attended a band festival in the south of France where I met the conductor of a fanfare band from Luxembourg, Robert Köller. He was kind enough to say some encouraging words to me about one o...

The Introduction is in an A-B-A form where the first fanfare-like majestic theme passes from group to group of the instrumentation. This is followed by a dialog duet between alto saxophone and euphoni...

Libuse was composed by Bedrich Smetana in 1872. It is an operatic overture which has its origins in Czech mythology. Libuse was the very beautiful daughter of a prince and she possessed supernatural p...

Intro

Louis Martinus has selected 10 slow, romantic and quiet excerpts from large wind band and fanfare band pieces composed by Hardy MERTENS. All these 'moods' are playable separately and are excellent for...

This was the first published piece by Dominique Wyckhuys. Although the composer has never put a foot in Brazil, he nevertheless is attracted to its lively and rhythmical music. After an opening which...