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This piece was commissioned by Nordhordland Brass Seminar in 1990 and written for a youth band. The title referes to a story from norse mythology. 'The Binding of the Wolf' is not a programmatic piec...

In Lord TullamoreCarl Wittrock ci comunica la 'sua' musica folk irlandese. La musica di questa composizione è molto variegata, coinvolgente e tutta nel segno della splendida isola. Lord Tullamore cont...

The word 'tsunami' is of Japanese origin. When you look it up in a dictionary, you will find that it means 'a great sea wave produced by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption'. A megatsunami i...

The assignment to write a test piece for the National Brass Band Championships ended up also being a 'test piece' for myself as a composer. Although being quite familiar with the Brass Band phenomenon...

In this work the Dutch composer Marc van Delft attempts to bring together two parties (former friends), after they have grown inexplicably apart. For this reason he calls in the help (Invocation) from...

Bruce Fraser composed this test piece for the 'Gouden Spiker Festival' 2003 (The Netherlands). Suite Celebration was inspired by events in his recent family life. The first movement celebrates the ma...

The composition Kefas was written for the brass band 'Apollo' from Grou (The Netherlands), by order of the Unisono Foundation, the organisation for wind music in The Netherlands. The assignment was gi...

In 'Land of Legends' German composer Andreas Ludwig (what's in a name) Schulte takes you along to the fictional world of legends, myths and fairy tales. The introduction to the first part (The Castle)...

As he did before in the often played and commonly appreciated 'Lord Tullamore', in which he poetically depicted the landscape and the cultural elements of a small Irish village, in his composition 'Th...

The Yiddish word 'Klezmer' has been derived from the Old Hebrew words 'Kley' (tool, instrument) and 'Zemer' (song, singing, making music). Klezmer is the traditional music of Jews from Eastern Europe....

Trimbeka is a composition which owes its existence to the anniversary of music society 'de Vlecke' in Gorredijk. The name Gorredijk originates from 'goor' or 'gor', which means : bog. Along the marshy...

Carl Wittrock composed La Viuda Negra (The Black Widow) for the Dutch Brass Band Championships (2010). A Spanish tinged composition filled with drama and emotion. La Viuda Negra is a Spanish widow,...

Finalmente abbiamo un concerto solista interessante e abbastanza suonabile per la tuba, uno strumento a fiato troppo spesso sottovalutato. Questo concerto è stato scritto e dedicato al suonatore di tu...

Finalmente abbiamo un concerto solista interessante e abbastanza suonabile per la tuba, uno strumento a fiato troppo spesso sottovalutato. Questo concerto è stato scritto e dedicato al suonatore di tu...

Da giovane, Andrew Pearce aveva un bel ricordo di quando suonava la cornetta nella locale Youth Brass Band, dove ha sperimentato per la prima volta la potenza e la bellezza della musica per ottoni. Do...

Da giovane, Andrew Pearce aveva un bel ricordo di quando suonava la cornetta nella locale Youth Brass Band, dove ha sperimentato per la prima volta la potenza e la bellezza della musica per ottoni. Do...

A tone poem in one movement. This work from the American composer, Steven Reineke tells the story of the lives of Helena and Sibylla, twin sisters born in Germany in 1588. The sisters were separated a...

Negli ultimi anni Andrew Pearce ha avuto una proficua collaborazione con Phillip Cobb, tromba principale della London Symphony Orchestra, componendo opere come The Maestro e Interlude per il suo album...

Negli ultimi anni Andrew Pearce ha avuto una proficua collaborazione con Phillip Cobb, tromba principale della London Symphony Orchestra, componendo opere come The Maestro e Interlude per il suo album...

The Cotton Phoenix is the first part of the two-part work 'Metropolis of the East' and describes the influence of the textile industry on the development of Enschede. The composition begins introducin...

In the second part of the two-piece work Metropolis of the East is the Old Market, the centre point of the city of Enschede in the Netherlands. Elements such as the Great Church, the monument to the c...

Geschichten, Sagen und Legenden - wer kennt sie nicht? Eigentlich immer mit Brutalität gewürzt, spiegeln sie die Erziehungsmethoden vergangener Zeiten wider: Neugierige Kinder alleine im Wald werden f...