Molenaar Edition

Back to the thirties... Since the Scott Joplin revival ragtime music has always been in. Revival Rag brings back to memory the music that was played during the Roaring Twenties in the U.S.A. That's wh...

The composer enjoys travelling around Europe by train. Trains have been his hobby since boyhood days - the days of steam engines. He saw a little train climbing the Col de la Croix Haute between Greno...

This optimistic message is the title of a popular song from the famous Monty Python film Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). Monty Python's Flying Circus was the name of a very popular British televi...

'1492 Conquest of Paradise' is a historical movie picture made by Ridley Scott in 1992, exactly 500 years after the discovery of the American continent. This film music composed by Vangelis became wor...

Ton van Grevenbroek wrote several arrangements of the very popular hits by the Alan Parsons Project, for wind band combined with a pop group (2 guitars and bass guitar) and piano. Just like 'Old and W...

'Music' by John Miles is one of the most popular pop songs of all times. Here is a magnificent arrangement for symphonic and fanfare band, with many shades and a sound quite near to the original. A ch...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight is based on the African melody 'Mbube', written in 1939. This melody can be heard in many various different forms all over Europe, for example in the popular musical 'The Lion...

In the late nineties Phil Collins led his own 'Phil Collins Big Band' for which he arranged his own compositions and this resulted in the famous compact disc 'A Hot Night in Paris'. 'Against all odds'...

Due to the success of Henk Ummels' arrangement 'The Best of the Blues Brothers' he wrote a sequel which should be equally successful. This part includes the hits 'Think', 'Minnie the Moocher' and 'I'm...

This is a very clever arrangement of one of the biggest hits from the Dutch singer Caro Emerald. This song is from her Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor album from 2010. The single was releas...

This popular song written by Chris Martin and his group Coldplay, was recently given a very new lease of life with an orchestral arrangement. The music brings new meaning and sentiments to the already...

Let's Groove is a song performed by American group Earth, Wind & Fire, taken from album Raise!, written by Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn. The song peaked inside the top twenty in countries including...

Ebony and Ivory is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The song is featured on McCartney's album Tug of War. The song reached number one on both the UK and the U.S. charts. F...

Stayin' Alive is a disco song by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack. The song was written by the Bee Gees members (Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb). It was released on...

A massive hit from the 60's from Jimmy Webb (McArthur Park etc.). The original and most famous version was from The 5th Dimension. This is positive and happy music, with a smile, from the 'Sunshine' p...

Music to Watch Girls By was the first top 40 hit from Bob Crewe with his band, The Bob Crewe Generation. He had heard the melody (composed by Sidney Ramin) in a commercial for Pepsi Light. The origina...

Another Day in Paradise is a Phil Collins song, released as the first single from the album ... But Seriously in 1989. The single reached the top of many charts, becoming one the biggest hits of Phil...

Mamma Mia is a single recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA which topped the charts all around the world as it was released in 1975. Written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with...

This arrangement recreates the Barry Manilow version from back in the 70s. There's a strong feeling of rhythmic and harmonic momentum that builds and builds to its climactic conclusion for both the ba...

Love's Theme is an instrumental piece recorded by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra and was released in 1973 as a single. It is one of the few instrumental and purely orchestral singles to reach...

Spooky's Day Off was a big hit from the Rotterdam Soul Band, Swinging Soul Machine with singer Iwan 'Spooky' Groeneveld. During the recording sessions Spooky took a free day, and the band recorded thi...

Un altro gioiello in stile pop del popolarissimo compositore Michael Geisler. Nel frattempo, questa mente creativa ha già pubblicato quasi 40 titoli presso Molenaar Edition e riesce sempre ad affascin...

I've Got the Music in Me è una canzone pop della Kiki Dee Band, pubblicata nel 1974. È stata scritta nel 1973 da Bias Boshell, il tastierista della Kiki Dee Band. È anche il titolo di un album della K...