Molenaar spartiti per banda

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...

Sebbene sia stata composta come un'opera semplice e senza pretese, questa "Fantasia di fandango" suona in qualche modo virtuosistica. La parte centrale lenta ci fa pensare agli splendidi pezzi per pia...

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...

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

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...

Let's go back to the fifties. As I have played as a musician at such famous places as Carrère and Maxim's in Paris and the Palm Beach in Cannes, I wanted to recreate the musical climate of that time....

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...

Noch ein ausgezeichnetes Arrangement von J. Hastreiter der eine gewisse Fachkenntnis zeigt. Hier gibt es ein sehr schöne Orchestrierung für Blasorchester von diesem leichten Unterhaltungswerk Ortolani...

Commissioned by Feldmusik Baar in Unterageri, Switzerland. The work is in the form of a single movement in a sprightly, vigorous tempo throughout, and built from three contrasting themes, with the mus...

As the title implies, the work was inspired by the comic theatrical tradition developed in Italy from the 16th century onward, by troups of travelling actors. However, it originated long before during...

Obwohl er am meisten in Paris komponiert hat, ist Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) einer der wichtigsten Komponisten der italienischen Opernschule. Er komponierte diese zwei Märsche 1836 für den Kronpri...

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was one of the great composers of the Italian operatic School, even though most of these productive years were spent in Paris. He has written these two marches for the c...

This powerful opening tune by the American composer Alfred reed was commissioned by the Rissho Kosei-kai Organization. The music is based on two contrasting groups of motifs. The first group consists...

The Italian composer Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870) was highly estimated by his contemporaries, even Liszt and Rossini praised him much. He wrote over 60 operas and was one of the 19th century operaco...

Michel Carros is the pen name chosen by a well-known Dutch wind band music composer to sign some compositions in the lighter vein. Among those compositions is this short but joyful piece 'The Happy Mi...