Molenaar Edition

(Rhapsody from Friesland)Friesland (Fryslân in the Frisian language) does not only have its own language but it also boasts a very rich own culture with many folk songs sometimes dating from many cent...

The young Spanish composer Ferrer Ferran studied with Jef Penders and became conductor of the symphonic band of the Valencia Conservatory of Music. He wrote this thrilling pasodoble torero as an homag...

Our man in Paris is a flaneur. Polished, elegant, and a little wordly-wise, he spends much of the day in the glossy boulevard cafes, sipping his drink and chatting with friends as he watches the fashi...

Josef Strauß, the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, worked for some time as an architect and engineer before he started conducting to replace his elder brother Johann Junior who had become seriously...

The American trumpeter, jazzbandleader and composer Quincy Jones worked with Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie before he performed as accompanist of great stars such as Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaugha...

The German composer Manfred Schneider (Ketsert am Rhein, 1953) has played the French horn in the Koblenz Police Band for many years. His band compositions such as Rock and Go, Splashing Sounds and Son...

1. Harvest Dance - Phoeboia II Like many of the inhabited planets Phoebia II was first colonized by the survivors of a spaceship crash. There is no certainty as to where these survivors originated fro...

The slow 'Airs' are a Ted Huggens speciality. LARGO ALLA BAROCCO is written completely in the style of the majestic 'Air from the New Baroque Suite' which was a worldwide success. At the end an ad lib...

The American pianist and composer Howard Hoagland 'Hoagy' Carmichael was considered the creator of the so-called 'white man's blues' which he mainly used as part of the music he wrote for a series of...

The once extremely popular American group 'The Village People' released its first album 'San Francisco' in 1977. The next year two more albums came, 'Macho Man' and 'YMCA', followed in 1979 by 'Go Wes...