Spartiti difficile per Banda

Guernica, 26 aprile 1937, 44 bombardieri della Legione Condor nazista e altri 13 della Legione Aerea dell'Italia fascista, su specifica richiesta del dittatore generale Franco e pesantemente armati di...

Ottorino Respighi was one of the most well known Italian composersfrom the beginning of the twentieth century. His style is influencedby the French impressionists, Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss,...

In 1885 Verdi wrote I Vespri Siciliani, an opera which would provide him with an international reputation. The overture is based on motifs and themes from the opera, used in a rhapsodic way. A mysteri...

The great Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was largely self-taught. He composed some operas but then in less than two years' time he lost his wife and two children (1838-1840) and dec...

Questa Sinfonia in due parti è un'opera giovanile della celebre compositrice Ida Gotkovsky. Attratta dalla composizione fin dalla più tenera età, Ida Gotkovsky entrò al Conservatorio Nazionale Superio...

Un'orchestra armonica, fonte viva di ispirazione con possibilità eloquenti, ha sempre ispirato il compositore. Il "Concerto per un'orchestra armonica completa" (Concerto pour grand orchestre d'harmoni...

In this suite for symphonic band the arranger did not use the existing orchestral suites, but composed another suite of his own with those parts of the ballet music that suited well for a transcriptio...

Camille Saint-Saëns, wrote his Third Symphony, while at the peak of his artistic abilities. During the same period he also wrote his Third Violin Concerto, the Danse Macabre and his world famous Carni...