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This suite is based on the fairy tale The Bronze Pig by Hans Christian Andersen. This is a story about a boy who wants to be a painter and a pig made of bronze. This pig, in Florence town square, is a...

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is one of the most beloved American artists. Widley known for his cover illustrations of The Saturday Evening Post, he excelled at painting the lives of ordinary Americans...

On average, about eight thousand (mostly light) earthquakes occur worldwide each day. Composer Jan de Haan has always been fascinated by this natural phenomenon. Earthquake portrays the beautiful Sout...

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This concert march is a tribute to the 'pioneers' in the world of brass music in the Lowlands of Netherlands, the original founders of the bands and the people who take the lead in organising the soci...

Questa marcia del giovane compositore giapponese Itaru Sakai inizia con foga. La musica si placa e il tono diventa più leggero. L'assolo di clarinetto basso alla fine del trio riprende il materiale te...

Questa marcia del giovane compositore giapponese Itaru Sakai inizia con foga. La musica si placa e il tono diventa più leggero. L'assolo di clarinetto basso alla fine del trio riprende il materiale te...

This rhapsody reflects the four seasons combined with the natural scenery that characterises the city of Québec and its surrounding region. Autumn is depicted with hunting horns playing in the forest,...

La città tedesca di Grafenrheinfeld in Baviera è strettamente legata alla centrale nucleare che essa ospita. Il termine Kraftwerk è costituito dalle parole Kraft (forza, potenza) e Werk (centrale, lav...

Originally written by the great English writer J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), The Lord of the Rings has encountered new-found popularity recently with the release of three ?huge-hit? motion pictures. W...

This unusual concert work, commissioned by the concert band ?Harmonie Concorde? from Sanem in Luxembourg, is built on two basic ideas: the evolution of the economic and social context of this Luxembou...

Perseus is the famous Greek hero who saved Princess Andromeda, as she was about to be sacrificed to the sea monster Kraken. SatoshiYagisawa was inspired by the story of Perseus, which was madefamous i...

For Three Aspects of Kurt Weill Peter Kleine Schaars took inspiration from the three periods that characterise the life of Weill - he successively lived in Berlin, Paris and New York. One theme is use...

La fonte di ispirazione di Jan de Haan per i Cityscapes è stata la metropoli di New York, la più grande città degli Stati Uniti. In tre movimenti, è riuscito a catturare alcuni dei tratti caratteristi...

From Ancient Times è un brano di grande impatto che attinge nella musica rinascimentale franco-fiamminga. La trama si appoggia su principi e tecniche di scrittura caratteristici di questa scuola che h...

Bliss - trasmette tre impressioni di un villaggio nel bellissimo Brabante. Il primo movimento, di introduzione "classica", parla del passato e del presente, mentre nel secondo movimento i sassofoni e...

The Stadtmusikkapelle Wilten-Innsbruck (Austria) invited Belgian composer Jan Van der Roost to write a work to mark the bicentenary of the Tyrolean fight for freedom, which was settled in 1809. Variou...

Der Zodiakus (Tierkreis) ist in der Astrologie das den von der Erde aus sichtbaren Himmel umspannende Band der zwölf Tierkreiszeichen. Jan de Haan verwendete vier dieser Zeichen (Stier, Skorpion, Wass...

Le Marais ist eine teilweise programmatische Komposition von Christian Bouthier. Sie basiert auf dem Pariser Stadtteil Le Marais, in dem Mode und Kultur, gutes Essen und schöne Architektur aufeinander...

Questo brano sottolinea ed elogia il dinamismo della Banda Municipale di Grevenmacher, fondata nel 1834, ricordando allo stesso tempo la storia di questa cittadina, situata in riva alla Mosella lussem...

The Heaven Tree is based on the fi rst book in an intensely imagined trilogy by author Edith Pargeter. Set during the golden age of cathedral building, this adventure novel explores the splendour and...

Konzertwerk/Wettbewerbsstück Commitment to Courage ist eine Hommage an die Arbeit der Feuerwehrleute auf der ganzen Welt, die täglich ihr Leben für die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung riskieren. Der erste...

Enjoying his travels in Scotland, Marco Pütz decided to compose a piece for wind band, based on Scottish folk songs. While in the airport at Glasgow, shortly before boarding his plane, Pütz bought a c...