Molenaar spartiti per banda

Somewhere in a park in China you can find the Dragon's Fountain. According to legend, long ago a dragon with three heads was slain in a fierce combat. According to the story, in order to express its a...

When the heat has become very intensive and invisible, it seems to turn black. This composition is an attempt to turn the apparent contrast heat/blackness into music because Alkema is fond of fire and...

The Dutch conductor Feike van Tuinen, who wrote 'Hever castle' for flexible instrumentation, has now written this fine composition for fanfare band 'Chorus'.It consists of a series of fine variations...

Experience a moment of consummate tranquility and sublime beauty with "Venus, The Bringer Of Peace" from Gustav Holst's world-famous orchestral suite "The Planets". In this deeply moving movement, the...

Gustav Holst (Cheltenham, 1874 - London, 1934) was of the very first great British composers of classical music to write some valuable original compositions for symphonic band. Holst composed operas,...

In his 'Radiovariations' the Spanish composer José Alamá-Gil wrote four very different variations on a 'radio theme' that is heard in the broad introduction. The 1st variation is lively and very rhyth...

We start our trip in Wallony, the French speaking part of Belgium where folk music is having a big revival nowadays. A solo cornet invites us with a classic opening as a little promenade to the dance,...

Jews in Eastern Europe always had their typical music. Links with gipsy music are never far away. Starting with 3 cadenzas, each for cornet, euphonium and tenorhorn the band has to deal with a difficu...

The longest trip we make is to the Far East. Japan, China, Tibet,... all countries with an enormous cultural background and history. Percussion is very important here to give a rich dimension to this...

We sail the ocean with stubborn, hardworking but weak hearted Flemish fishermen to the Northern parts of the Atlantic. A sailor is leaving his wife or girlfriend not knowing if he is going to come bac...

Back to the southern part of Flanders where we tell a sad story about a mother and her children. Serious contemplative talk by the euphonium soloist in Tjanne. Eventually coloured by a harp.

This pieces D-Day describes that historical day. Water, fog banks, fear, panic, assault, guns, victims... The composition reaches its culminating point in the final choral 'abide with me'. An impressi...

The composer wrote: 'Though my English friends doubted whether this title was grammatically correct, it perfectly expresses what I wanted to say. At some moment I finally accepted the continuous failu...

' Madam I'm Adam'. Said Adam to Eve. If only the whole story in the Garden of Eden could as easily be read backwards as this palindrome! That was not the case and so all kinds of things happened, such...

José Alamá Gil became musical director of the Banda del Centre Artistic Musical de Bétera in 1979 and has won many awards with this fine symphonic band. His two part concert piece for symphonic band '...

José Alamá Gil became musical director of the Banda del Centre Artistic Musical de Bétera in 1979 and has won many awards with this fine symphonic band. His two part concert piece for symphonic band '...