Molenaar Edition

The original 16th century Ricercare was actually a vocal work without words.Instrumental music is in search of its independence: the content was so to say a musical invocation.The Ricercare in this ca...

Jef Penders (Hoensbroek 1928) wird oft 'der spanische Limburger' genannt. Penders dirigierte manche Blasmusikorchester und Chöre und hat einen internationalen Ruf als Bearbeiter und Blasmusikkomponist...

Solo for two baritons (euphonia) and wind orchestra

This composition is subtitled 'Rhapsodic Sketches on a two days journey through a Dutch province (county)'. Penders originally composed this music to illustrate a series of slides on the Dutch provinc...

Japanese sounds, pentatonic scales, throbbing drums and (for Western wind orchestras something quite new), glissandi on the double-reed instruments. The fact that Molenaar's Editions for wind-orchestr...

The composer thinks his 'Overture for an Imaginary Play' (1987) does not need any comment at all.

Grandfather's Clock, presented à la Herb Alpert orJames Last, a useful addition to our Real Big Band Sound repertoire.