Spartiti classica per banda

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

As a contribution to the opera 'Armer Columbus' by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic 'Entr'acte' in c minor (Al...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d'Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera "Les contes d'Hoffman", but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

When Russian composer Joseph Schillinger met Leon Theremin (the inventor of the theremin) they collaborated resulting in a few of the first original pieces for the theremin. Among those pieces Schilli...

Johann Strauss wrote the "Russische Marsch-Fantasie" (Russian March Fantasy) for a tour to Russia in 1872. Because the tour was cancelled, the successful first performance of the march was held in Vie...

Il Carnevale di Venezia è un motivo popolare italiano associato alle parole "Il mio cappello ha tre angoli". Fu ascoltato a Venezia dal virtuoso violinista Nicolo Paganini e reso famoso dal suo arrang...

The Carnival of Venice is a popular Italian folk tune associated with the words "My hat, it has three corners." It was heard in Venice by the virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini and made famous in his...

Künstlerleben (Vita d'artista) op. 316 è un valzer scritto da Johann Strauss jr. nel 1867, sulla scia del successo del popolare valzer "Il Danubio blu". Il valzer fu presentato al "Ballo dell'Espero"...

Künstlerleben (Artist's Life) op. 316 is a waltz written by Johann Strauss jr. in 1867, following closely on the success of the popular "The Blue Danube" waltz. The waltz was presented at the "Hesperu...

Carmen è probabilmente l'opera più famosa dell'intero repertorio operistico, anche se la sua prima nel 1875 fu una grande delusione. Il coro "Vivat! Vivat le Torero!" è cantato nel secondo atto dell'o...

Carmen is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. The chorus "Vivat! Vivat le Toréro!" is sung in the second act of the...

The oratorio "Mors et Vita" (Death and Life) is the continuation of "The Redemption" and was the second of a proposed trilogy of oratorios written on commission by Charles Gounod for the Birmingham Fe...

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his "Fantasia on Serbian Themes" (also known as the "Serbian Fantasy") in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performance of this piece in May of that year. The "Fantasy" wa...

Die Afrikanerin è una quadriglia viennese che Johann Strauss basò sui temi dell'opera "L'Africaine" di Meyerbeer. Fu ascoltata per la prima volta al Volksgarten di Vienna il 7 luglio 1865 durante un f...

Die Afrikanerin è una quadriglia viennese che Johann Strauss basò sui temi dell'opera "L'Africaine" di Meyerbeer. Fu ascoltata per la prima volta al Volksgarten di Vienna il 7 luglio 1865 durante un f...

Le "Zigeunerweisen" (Arie gitane) per violino e orchestra di Pablo de Sarasate furono scritte nel 1878 e presentate per la prima volta nello stesso anno a Lipsia. "Zigeunerweisen" è in assoluto la com...

Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" (Gypsy Airs) for Violin and Orchestra was written in 1878 and premiered during the same year in Leipzig. It is based on themes of the Roma people, specifically the...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

Verdi compose "Un Ballo in Maschera" per il Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, dove sarebbe dovuto andare in scena durante la stagione di carnevale del 1858. Il libretto narrava la vera storia del re liberal...