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César Franck (1822-1890) was born in Liege, Belgium, and his great musical talent was discovered when he was still a small boy. When he was 12 years old, his family moved to Paris. In the French capit...

Experience the thrilling energy and epic drama of one of Hollywood's greatest blockbusters on the concert stage! With "Independence Day", film composer David Arnold created a cinematic masterpiece fil...

The infernal and extremely rhythmical 'Samba di Janeiro' was a hit made popular by the group Bellini years ago. A driving and exotic sounding percussion introduction is followed by a most compelling t...

Hans-Joachim Rhinow, born in Berlin on 18 November 1921, studied at the Conservatory of Music (Musikhochschule) of his native town. From 1958 onwards he was active as composer and arranger for radio,...

The Belgian composer Jaak Govaere (1954) is a member of the Royal Belgian Air Force Band and of several famous dance and jazz bands. 'Follow me', arranged by Gh. Slingeneyer, guitarist of the former B...

A game of chess took place in London between two great masters, Anderssen (English) and Kiesevitzki (Russian). That game was regarded as one of the most beautiful ever played in history. That was the...

This is the music of a popular American science fiction television serial dating from the late 70's. The music composed by Glenn A. Larson and Stewart Philips sounds a little bit familiar, as it seems...

Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was one of the leading figures in the musical world of the early nineteenth century, being active as well in Paris, London and Vienna as in his home country Italy. He becam...

The 'Swan of Pesaro' as Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was called, was to become one of the greatest European composers of the nineteenth century. He was made immortal by his numerous operas. 'The thi...

Amando Blanquer Ponsoda (1935-2005) is born in Alicante. Entornos is a symphony for band in three parts: Allegro Grazioso, Lento and Fanfarria y Coral. It is written in a tonal idiom and boasts an ext...

Piet Daalhuisen (Hilversum, 1939) was already known in the world of wind bands because of his medleys 'With a smile to the classics' and 'Pop for the People' (both in splendid wind band arrangements b...

Antonio Carlos Jobim (1925-1994), undoubtedly one of the greater Brazilian composers, is especially known as a songwriter. He combined modern classical touches with a suave swing rendering individual...

This is the fourth movement of the five-part suite 'Nomenclatura' commissioned by the Dutch Customs Band 'Douane Harmonie Nederland'. This movement is a quiet ballad, that could be considered as a qui...

This is a brand new original arrangement of this famous Gershwin march with optional part for vocal soloist. George Gershwin (Brooklyn, 1898 - Hollywood, 1937) is not only the composer of 'Rhapsody in...

This rhapsody for solo quintet and band has been composed especially for bands of the honour's division boasting 2 oboes, one cor anglais and 2 bassoons. The classical dance forms played by the quinte...

With this work Schönfeld won the 1986 competition for New Music for Wind Bands organised by the European Broadcasting Union. He is currently playing the saxophone in the Berlin Police Band. As the nam...