Molenaar Edition

Here we have another splendid pleasing suite by Ennio Salvere. It consists of the following three parts : 'Of Guilds and Bagpipes', 'Of Sailors and Fishermen' and 'Of Singers and Dancers'. With this c...

Wilhelmus / Neerlands Volkslied / Limburgs Volkslied / Friesche Volkslied

Hugo Alfven was a Swedish violinist (pupil of César Thomson in Brussels), conductor and composer who was musical director at the Uppsala University for thirty years. He composed five symphonies, chora...

The master arranger Alfred Reed orchestrated this classic musical from 1956. Includes the songs: . Met: With a little bit of luck, On the street where you live, Wouldn't it be lovely, Get me to the ch...

Leroy Anderson(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1908 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1975) was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting...

The fact that composer, Meindert Boekel is an emotional person is rather clear when listening to this composition. He wrote this work after a period in his private life when things had not gone well....

This Mass has been dedicated to His Holyness Pope John Paul II, to witness Lancens deep and respectful admiration for the Holy Father. The work was composed in 1986 and written for two solo voices: a...

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) è nato a Cambridge, nel Massachusetts. Durante gli studi all'Università di Harvard ha diretto la banda sinfonica dell'università. Nel 1936 fu assunto come arrangiatore dalla...

A Sinfonietta is a 'small symphony', so it is a composition that does not boast the length of a real symphony (although this could be the case) and so allows the composer to take some liberties. In th...

This suggestive novelty describes the somewhat jerky behaviour of the 'lazy robots' performing a kind of clumsy and yet comic dance.

The Salsa is a mixture of jazz, rock and Afro-Cuban music that was born in the seventies in New York. This musical genre, based on Caribbean rhythmical patterns, gives way to a lot of improvisation. T...

Un nuovo compositore e un nuovo suono. Questo brano "Cicli e miti" ha un suono piuttosto moderno e presenta un mix di suoni ritmici contemporanei alternati a intermezzi più tranquilli. Questa composiz...

This composition tells the ancient Japanese legend of Amaterasu, goddess of the Sun. Amaterasu, the sun goddess had a very glamorous and dazzling ppearance. When her brother Susanoo the storm god come...

Il poema sinfonico "L'isola della luce" illustra leggende e luoghi dell'isola di Minorca. In "Cova d'enXoroi" l'ascoltatore può ascoltare la leggenda di un moro soprannominato Xoroi, che dopo un attac...

The Nanga Parbat, literally Naked Mountain, and also known as Killer Mountain is one of the largest and most dangerous mountains in the West Himalayas. At a height of 8125m it is the ninth highest mou...

People condemned to the deepest povertry and distress are often driven to extremes and woe betide those who put something in their way. Boublil and Schönberg wrote their first rock opera 'the French R...

Arranger Peter Kleine Schaars selected in random order some of the finest tunes from Morricone's soundtrack, such as the main theme Nuovo Cinema Paradiso and First Youth, Cinema on Fire, From American...