Molenaar Edition

This sparkling Bossa-Nova reminds us of the famous carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

During the Second World War, Leroy Anderson was a captain with the American Intelligence Service. After the war he continued to work for the Defence Department in Washington for some years. At that ti...

This successful tune composed by Mills and Ellington belonged to the repertoire of the Duke Ellington Band, the complete title being It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing. All jazz fans ce...

The German composer Max Bruch was born in 1838 and died in 1920. Shortly after his arrival in Britain in 1880, where he had been appointed musical director of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, he co...

The music of the roaring twenties and thirties has never been as popular as today. Marcel Peeters wrote a sparkling selection of evergreens of those years, including You're driving me crazy, My blue H...

Some musicians were complaining that in lighter music the 2nd cornets, 2nd and 3rd trombones and other players seldom had a tune to play. The composer resolved to put that right and has given the melo...

Anthem is the most well known song from the popular musical 'CHESS' written by the male half of the Swedish pop group ABBA, Bjoern Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Anthem has been brought out as a separat...

Joseph Strauß (Vienna 1827-1870), the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, was active as an engineer and an architect before getting in the wake of his illustrious father and brother. The Feuerfest Pol...

Here you have a swinging 'up-tempo' Boogie, the predecessor of rock and roll. The Boogie Woogie is a dance that was introduced in Europe by the American soldiers in the forties. This is an ideal piece...