Musica strumentale per banda

A suite of old French folksongs cleverly arranged for concert band. A wonderful combination of children's games, love songs, troubadour's tunes, court music and rollicking songs for the King's Ryoal H...

An ideal opener for any concert, this sparkling overture opens with a majestic fanfare which is followed by a lively allegro. (Recorded on QPRM132D FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 1998, Massed Bands of the Royal Ai...

Wilhelmus / Neerlands Volkslied / Limburgs Volkslied / Friesche Volkslied

Hugo Alfven was a Swedish violinist (pupil of César Thomson in Brussels), conductor and composer who was musical director at the Uppsala University for thirty years. He composed five symphonies, chora...

The fact that composer, Meindert Boekel is an emotional person is rather clear when listening to this composition. He wrote this work after a period in his private life when things had not gone well....

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) è nato a Cambridge, nel Massachusetts. Durante gli studi all'Università di Harvard ha diretto la banda sinfonica dell'università. Nel 1936 fu assunto come arrangiatore dalla...

A Sinfonietta is a 'small symphony', so it is a composition that does not boast the length of a real symphony (although this could be the case) and so allows the composer to take some liberties. In th...

This suggestive novelty describes the somewhat jerky behaviour of the 'lazy robots' performing a kind of clumsy and yet comic dance.

The Salsa is a mixture of jazz, rock and Afro-Cuban music that was born in the seventies in New York. This musical genre, based on Caribbean rhythmical patterns, gives way to a lot of improvisation. T...

'Caruso (1986) has been performed by many international artists and is much loved by the general public. Huge stars such as Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban have had great commercial...

This composition tells the ancient Japanese legend of Amaterasu, goddess of the Sun. Amaterasu, the sun goddess had a very glamorous and dazzling ppearance. When her brother Susanoo the storm god come...