Molenaar Edition

This famous jazz theme with the melancholic lyrics 'Bill Bailey won't you please come home, I'm feeling sad and lonely' is on the repertoire of many famous (female) jazz singers and is also a favourit...

The American composer Milton Ager (Chicago 1893 - Los Angeles 1979) wrote several songs that became evergreens, such as 'Ain't she sweet' and 'Happy Days are here again'. The latter became extremely p...

It was for the 80 anniversary as musician of Mr. Denessen that the wind band Harmonie St. Cecilia' at Tegelen, The Netherlands asked me to write this march. As his slogan is 'Playing music keeps me fi...

(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...

The traditional Ukrainian marching song Zaporozsky brings us in a typical Eastern European atmosphere and spontaneously calls nostalgic feelings up. John Smits managed to arrange this fine theme in a...

The American soul music group 'Earth, Wind and Fire', set up in 1970 by singer and drummer Maurice Whitney, started a real international career from 1975 onwards. Especially the brass players were foc...

The immortal French song 'Les Feuilles Mortes' (Autumn Leaves) was composed by Joseph Kosma on a text by Jacques Prévert. Kosma worked with Berthold Brecht, Kurt Weil and Hans Eisler in Berlin before...

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...

We still do not understand why the excellent Russian composer Georgi Salnikov did not yet completely break through as band music composer in Western Europe. His exquisite music for symphonic band boas...

The British composer and ex military band conductor Terry Kenny got an excellent reputation as director of music of the Royal Corps of Transport Band with which he made a series of fine recordings. Si...

The young Spanish conductor and composer Ferrer Ferran is a pupil of Jef Penders. He conducts the symphonic band of the Valencia Conservatory of Music and the Banda Primitiva de Paiporta. For this thr...