Spartiti medio Musica classica

The 'suite Arogno' is a musical evocation of the history of this small village on the Alps, at the border with Italy. The first movement describes the travel of architect Adamo da Arogno to Trento whe...

Gioacchino Rossini is famous as composer of a fabulous series op splendid operas of which the overtures are often most popular and appreciated. The opera 'La Cambiale di Matrimonio' (the change of the...

Grieg composed this funeral march for his friend, Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak who died at the age of 23. Grieg took copies of this piece on all his travels as he wished that it would be played...

In 1898 and 1899 Edward Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations, portraying several of his friends. Variation IX received the mysterious title 'Nimrod' and describes August Jaeger, a German who worked in a...

After having heard this piece for the first time at an organ recital, Feike van Tuinen was convinced that an orchestral version would be fantastic and would work very well. This piece has a stimulatin...

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) wrote two series of eight Slavonic dances. The first series, composed in 1878, was so successful that the editor asked the composer to write a second series. It was not befo...

The Capriol Suite is a set of dances in the renaissance style. It was based on tunes found in a manual of Renaissance dances by the French priest Jehan Tabourot. The treatment of the source material i...

The British composer Edward Elgar, aside from writing his famous Pomp and Circumstance marches, also wrote two symphonies. This piece is the opening theme of his first symphony. A beautiful late roman...

L'Almanach aux Images was composed in 1911, originally consisting of eight piano miniatureseach preceded by a poem. It is perhaps the best-known work of French pianist, composer and conductor, Gabriel...

The Voyevoda from Tchaikovsky is based on the play A Dream on the Volga which was premiered on February 11, 1869. In the 1870s Tchaikovsky destroyed the manuscript full score of the opera, while recyc...

La Marcia funebre di una marionetta fu composta nel 1872 come parte della Suite Burlesque per pianoforte di Charles Gonoud. Questa suite era intesa come una parodia del critico musicale Henry Chorley....

The composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is regarded as Norway's the most important composer and for a large part can be regarded as a miniaturist. He has written famous works such as the Piano Concerto...

In 1888 a poor music teacher got engaged to a writer, eight years older than him. Caroline Alice Roberts dedicated her poem The Wind At Dawn to her beloved Edward Elgar. And he composed his Liebesgruß...

Rachmaninoff - Vocalise, Rachmaninoff's popular song without words, scored for solo oboe and band.

Tchaikovsky Highlights'. Various themes from the famous composer P.I Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) are presented here as a medley. The piece makes use of the best known melodies from the following compositi...

Weill's famous "Dreigroschenoper", in which prevailing opera conventions are ridiculed. The first part is a "serious", almost baroque overture, followed by a ballad that is easy on the ears, and the f...

The 'Flower Waltz' (1892) is a piece of orchestral music from the second act of The Nutcracker, a ballet composed by Tchaikovsky. The waltz is also the last number in his Nutcracker Suite. The 'Flower...

The 'Flower Waltz' (1892) is a piece of orchestral music from the second act of The Nutcracker, a ballet composed by Tchaikovsky. The waltz is also the last number in his Nutcracker Suite. The 'Flower...

In der Suite werden komplette Stücke und weitverbreitete Liedmelodien aus der Zeit um 1500 zitiert. Historisch Überliefertes und im Geiste der Renaissancemusik Nachempfundenes verschmelzen zu einem ne...

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1640-1693) ist ein führender Vertreter des böhmischen Barock. Nach dem Studium an der lateinischen Jesuitenschule in Olmütz von 1656 bis 1660 wurde er ab 1664 Mitglied der Sch...

In der Oper 'L'Elisir d'amore' (Der Liebestrank), 1832 in Mailand erstmals aufgeführt, liebt der schüchterne, junge Bauer Nemorino die hübsche und reiche Adina, die sich jedoch zunächst nichts aus ihm...

Der zweite Satz aus dem Hornkonzert Nr. 3, die herrliche Romanze, in einer schönen Bearbeitung für Solo Horn oder auch Tenorhorn von Peter Schad.

1869 erschien der erste Teil 'Ungarische Tänze für das Pianoforte zu vier Händen gesetzt von Johannes Brahms'. Ein zweiter Band folgte 1880 und komplettierte die Serie von einundzwanzig Tänzen. Woher...

A complete and exact transcription of the first movement of the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. This is written in the Key of F, same as the original symphony. All solos are exactly the same as in the orig...