Molenaar Edition

This book contains 14 contradanzas by Manuel Saumell of which 12 are for clarinet and piano and 2 for clarinet quartet. Manuel Saumell (Havana 1817 - 1970) is considered the father of the Cuban musica...

Ignacio Cervantes (Havana, Cuba, 1847-1905) is widely regarded as the most important 19th century musician in Cuba. After his piano and composition studies in Paris, where he moved in the highest circ...

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) was a pupil of Michael Haydn. Before he was fifteen years old he had already composed an opera, a mass and piano music. He was subsequently director of the Prague Oper...

The popular third piano concerto is one the most well known piano concertos. Virtusosically written, strong and full of spirit. It was composed in 1803, and premiered in Vienna with Beethoven himself...

Roman Festivals is a symphonic poem composed in 1928, and the third orchestral work from Respighi's Roman Trilogy. Each of the four movements describes a scene from ancient Rome. The first movement, C...

By popular demand we have a favourite from Andre Rieu in the catalogue this year: The medley Carnival of Venice. Who doesn't know the Italian folksong O Cara Mama Mia, better known as Carnival of Veni...

Weill's famous "Dreigroschenoper", in which prevailing opera conventions are ridiculed. The first part is a "serious", almost baroque overture, followed by a ballad that is easy on the ears, and the f...

The so called first horn concerto in D KV 412 is actually incomplete, and comprises a number of different parts, which according to musicologists don't really fit well together at all. The original fi...