Molenaar Edition

The Salsa is a mixture of jazz, rock and Afro-Cuban music that was born in the seventies in New York. This musical genre, based on Caribbean rhythmical patterns, gives way to a lot of improvisation. T...

In his 'Radiovariations' the Spanish composer José Alamá-Gil wrote four very different variations on a 'radio theme' that is heard in the broad introduction. The 1st variation is lively and very rhyth...

Gipsies are wizards with the fiddle. Eastern European folk musicians and gipsies are using a lot of brass in their music. Their brass ensembles are very impressive, so the link to brassbands is quickl...

We start our trip in Wallony, the French speaking part of Belgium where folk music is having a big revival nowadays. A solo cornet invites us with a classic opening as a little promenade to the dance,...

Jews in Eastern Europe always had their typical music. Links with gipsy music are never far away. Starting with 3 cadenzas, each for cornet, euphonium and tenorhorn the band has to deal with a difficu...

The longest trip we make is to the Far East. Japan, China, Tibet,... all countries with an enormous cultural background and history. Percussion is very important here to give a rich dimension to this...

We sail the ocean with stubborn, hardworking but weak hearted Flemish fishermen to the Northern parts of the Atlantic. A sailor is leaving his wife or girlfriend not knowing if he is going to come bac...

Back to the southern part of Flanders where we tell a sad story about a mother and her children. Serious contemplative talk by the euphonium soloist in Tjanne. Eventually coloured by a harp.

This pieces D-Day describes that historical day. Water, fog banks, fear, panic, assault, guns, victims... The composition reaches its culminating point in the final choral 'abide with me'. An impressi...

The composer wrote: 'Though my English friends doubted whether this title was grammatically correct, it perfectly expresses what I wanted to say. At some moment I finally accepted the continuous failu...

' Madam I'm Adam'. Said Adam to Eve. If only the whole story in the Garden of Eden could as easily be read backwards as this palindrome! That was not the case and so all kinds of things happened, such...

José Alamá Gil became musical director of the Banda del Centre Artistic Musical de Bétera in 1979 and has won many awards with this fine symphonic band. His two part concert piece for symphonic band '...

José Alamá Gil became musical director of the Banda del Centre Artistic Musical de Bétera in 1979 and has won many awards with this fine symphonic band. His two part concert piece for symphonic band '...

The composition Floris was first of all written for the movie picture 'Floris', based on the old television series of the same name, with, among others, Rutger Hauer in the leading role. This series t...

At the commemoration ceremonies of the '60th anniversary of the Liberation' several stories about the concentration camps were brought up once more. Most poignant was the improvised act by an ex priso...

The 'Annen Polka' is e real gem of the typical Viennese music. It could hardly fail at any Strauß concert and is a regular feature at the annual New Year's Concert in Vienna.

Bethena is the result of a fictive collaboration between Scott Joplin and Willy Hautvast. The piece was originally written for the piano, so the melody is to be found in the right hand part whereas th...