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About his composition 'Fin de Siècle', completed in 1995, Alkema writes: 'At the end of each century 'everything is allowed' for some time. Everything is being summarized and eventually leads to a las...

'At a concert one should modulate the tonal atmosphere both for the musicians and the audience' dixit Maddy Nicolas, my wife to whom I dedicate this composition. The menuet's elegance and noble simpli...

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...

Suntan was written during a visit to Cyprus. In a jaunty melody, it attempts to reflect some of the sunshine and warmth of the small mediterranean island.

In 1991 the Russian town Leningrad has been renamed Saint Petersburg again, after a period of more than 70 years. This piece, based on Russian folksongs, is dedicated to the people of this beautiful t...

Though composed as a simple unpretentious little work, this 'Fandango Fantasy' sounds somewhat virtuoso. The slow middlepart makes us think of the plendid piano pieces by the Spanish composer Isaac Al...

Here is a kind of matrial hymn, composed in honour of the Olympics. Pieter Goemans wrote this work fort he Dutch Radio Orchestra 'Metropole Orkest' and here you have a skilful arrangement by Marcel Pe...

Without claiming to possess a 'Magic Formula' to realize this sequence, the composer fancied to imagine a Formula One race at Monza. The binary beat portrays the combustion engine. The exaggerated eff...

The Swedish composer Sam Rydberg (1885-1956) composed all kinds of music, even film music. However he was a military musician for many years and ended his career as a military bandmaster. He remained...

A rhythmical study for youth band. Some Fanfares based on a rock pattern gradually change into an old fashioned swing music.

This overture introducing Fibich's opera 'Sarka', was composed between 1896 and 1897 and is based on a famous Bohemian legend. Several Czech composers, such as Bedrich Smetana and Leos Janacek, have u...

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...

TRIANAThe twelve part piano composition 'Iberia', published in four volumes between 1906 and 1909, is often considered as the absolute summit of all piano compositions by Albéniz. Among those pieces '...

This excerpt from 'Six Piano Pieces' opus 32, is the only work of the Norwegian composer and pianist Christian Sinding (1856-1941) that remained popular, as well as a piano piece as in several arrange...

Up to the disco! There you'll find a fascinating rhythm, a thrilling atmosphere, pretty girls and nice guys, in short ... today's youth. Hastreiter knows how to write music that appeals to all youngst...