Ensemble

In questa ballata il tema dell'altruismo è affrontato già dalle prime misure. Con Hymn of Brotherhood , Egbert van Groningen esprime l'importanza di valori quali il rispetto, la riconosc...

Metro Gnome was written at the request of Louis Martinus. He asked if I could write another piece like Serenade with unusual time signatures, because it was good practice for young players to encounte...

Rückseitentitel: Musik im Blut

A suite of old French folksongs cleverly arranged for concert band. A wonderful combination of children's games, love songs, troubadour's tunes, court music and rollicking songs for the King's Ryoal H...

Wilhelmus / Neerlands Volkslied / Limburgs Volkslied / Friesche Volkslied

Hugo Alfven was a Swedish violinist (pupil of César Thomson in Brussels), conductor and composer who was musical director at the Uppsala University for thirty years. He composed five symphonies, chora...

The fact that composer, Meindert Boekel is an emotional person is rather clear when listening to this composition. He wrote this work after a period in his private life when things had not gone well....

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) è nato a Cambridge, nel Massachusetts. Durante gli studi all'Università di Harvard ha diretto la banda sinfonica dell'università. Nel 1936 fu assunto come arrangiatore dalla...

A Sinfonietta is a 'small symphony', so it is a composition that does not boast the length of a real symphony (although this could be the case) and so allows the composer to take some liberties. In th...

This suggestive novelty describes the somewhat jerky behaviour of the 'lazy robots' performing a kind of clumsy and yet comic dance.