Molenaar Edition

The traditional song Day-Oh! became very popular when Harry Belafonte (New-York, 1927) put it in his repertoire as 'Banana Boat Song'. This jazz musician discovered by chance that he boasted a unique...

This is the fifth and final movement of the colourful suite 'Nomenclatura' by Peter Kleine Schaars (1962). After subsequently a salsa, a ballad, a rumba and a funk melody, here is a capricious piece c...

Mandalay, the cultural capital of Burma, was very seriously damaged by bombings of the Allied Forces during the Second World War. 'The Road to Mandalay' has been a kind of oriental symbol, which was a...

This Rhapsody is composed by Peter kleine Schaars for the 4th international contest of light music in 2002 at St. Gallen.

Don't Let The Moment Pass is a song from Alan Parsons Project album Freudiana (1990). Freudiana is a rock album and a rock opera, originally intended to be the 11th album by The Alan Parsons Project....

Three sound portraits of Turkey: the 'Topkapi Palace' , the imperial residence built after the Ottoman conquest in Istanbul, the 'Blue Mosque' or Sultan Ahmet mosque built between 1609 and 1616 also a...

The Belgian composer Marcel Peeters is really an all round musician. In this sunny medley Mexican Dances he arranged in a most skilful and original way a series of traditional Mexican themes you will,...

This arrangment is part of the Alan Parsons Project. This band was founded by sound technician Alan Parsons and composer and session musician Eric Woolfson. During a performance of Night of the Proms...

This arrangment is part of the Alan Parsons Project. The Turn tells the story of the entrance a gambler makes into a casino, full of expressionless faces and the endless spinning of the roulette wheel...

This monumental work of the Dutch composer Hans Cox had it's premiere in 2004. The original title of Virtual Visions was 'Laarbeek Suite'. Laarbeek, a community in Holland of the former places; Liesho...

I Prelude (start) II Landscape (measure 17) III Crowded and Urbanization (measure 68) In case of lack of time or potential technical problems, it is possible to skip the third part. One can make a str...

Next to 'Filos Musica' and 'Olé junqueira' by this Portuguese composer, we also publish This fine medley of Portuguese melodies. These nice and very well orchestrated melodies make us dream of sunny h...