Opere di apertura per banda

Recording of the United States Coast Guard Band, Lieutenant Kenneth W. Megan, Director

Five Intradas enthält fünf kurze Eröffnungsstücke aus der Feder von Jan de Haan: Intrada, Valerius-Intrada, Intrada 'Louis Bourgeois', Weihnachts-Intrada und Neujahrs-Intrada. Wie die Titel schon ande...

Die Zauberflöte ist Mozarts letzte Oper und zugleich die populärste, heute noch am häufigsten gespielte. Sie wurde nicht wie die übrigen Opernwerke für ein Hoftheater, sondern als Auftragsarbeit für e...

A composition of much contrast based on a well-known psalm melody. As its title announces, it starts with a majestic introduction in which parts of the psalm melody can be heard. Next we hear the comp...

Un titolo non convenzionale per un brano altrettanto fuori dal comune. Il titolo, formato dalle parole 'spectacular' e 'introduction', rispecchia in pieno il brano: un'introduzione spettacolare al vos...

Conquest of Paradise è la colonna originale del film 1492 - Cristoforo Colombo che porta la firma di Vangelis, compositore greco di fama internazionale, conosciuto al grande pubblico per la colonna so...

A new era dawns-heralded by solemn brass fanfares. What does the future hold? In his work Overture to a New Age , Jan de Haan expresses on the one hand anticipation, on the other also an awareness tha...

The magical world of King Arthur, Merlin and Mordred is the setting for Avalon. Unexpected opening figures portray the sudden entrance into another world. A choral-like melody represents the processio...

This beautiful arrangement begins with a festive opening following which the chorale melody is introduced. A lofty intermezzo follows, after which the chorale returns with the joyful atmosphere of the...

Jan van der Roost's new work Jubilus will make an ideal opening piece for any event. It is in a classical ABA form, beginning with a rising brass fanfare which is quickly replaced by a contrasting exp...

As the title suggests, Spanish Overture has a strong Spanish character. The music in this overture is full of quintessential Spanish colours. Following a fluid and spontaneous development which moves...

Wings - 'Flügel' - bewegt sich auf musikalischen Schwingen über drei Klangbereiche hinweg. Wings steht hier aber auch für den Flügel, der neben anderen Tasteninstrumenten Piet Swerts zu dieser Komposi...

Questo maestoso brano di apertura inizia su un passaggio sonoro grave e profondo dove echeggia un tema ampio e generoso, eseguito dagli ottoni gravi, su un movimento continuo delle percussioni. Poco a...

This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a majes...

In den Werken des französischen Komponisten Paul Dukas (1865-1935) ist stilistisch die Bewunderung für Wagner sowie für den französischen Impressionismus spürbar, woraus sich ein interessanter, selten...

The Banquet of Light is an easily accessible piece which takes its inspiration from ?light? both in terms of it representing good news and joy together with scenes inspired by light, such as a sunset...

Questa fanfara brillante è un brano commissionato dal Liceo di Kashihara, della prefettura di Nara in Giappone. Scrivendo questo brano in due movimenti, il compositore ha espresso il desiderio che gli...

This fantastic, stirring fanfare was written with the composer?s wish that the young musicians performing it would fly into the bright future like pheasants. The first part of the piece is a fanfare,...

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) is considered as the one of themost important representatives of the French opéra-comique. His styleis characterised by natural, unembellished melody lines, strai...

Kickoff is a short but powerful opening work. An attractive theme, a beautiful counter-melody, a driving bass motif and energetic percussion are the ingredients of this composition. A fantastic way to...

Fortune is a light concert work from the pen of the contemporaryLithuanian composer and arranger Kazys Daugéla. It wascommissioned for the opening ceremony of the World LithuanianOlympic Games in 1991...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) wrote his Academic Fesival Overture in the summer of 1880, together with the Tragic Overture. The occasion was the honorary degree which Brahms had re...

Neben dem Zigeunerbaron und Eine Nacht in Venedig ist Die Fledermaus eine der bekanntesten Operetten von Johann Strauss (Sohn). Dieses Werk, das 1874 uraufgeführt wurde, ist ein Paradebeispiel für die...