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This meditative work describes the final minutes before the night slips away and officially turns to day, the last few moments before a new dawn. The composition is based on the old Austrian folk tune...

IToccato profondamente dalle catastrofi delle centrali nucleari di Fukushima più recentemente, ma anche di Tschernobyl in tempi ormai lontani, Otto M. Schwarz ha composto Nuclear Power, un impressiona...

In questo brano per sax contralto solo e banda, Gerald Oswald presenta un affresco musicale di paesaggi, stati d'animo e tratti caratteriali. Il compositore intende descrivere la diversità culturale e...

This fanfare stands for progress and the discovery of new horizons. But it also represents an expanding awareness while nurturing traditional values. These are the cornerstones of the Austrian music t...

In 1981 the group OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) managed to turn the ancient legend of Joan of Arc into a modern electro-pop song-and thus leave a landmark in the landscape of pop themselves....

'The Three Towers' è una suite che descrive tre monumenti storici che adornano ancora i vecchi bastioni della città svizzera di Friburgo. Le tre torri sono raffigurate in altrettanti movimenti contras...

'The Three Towers' è una suite che descrive tre monumenti storici che adornano ancora i vecchi bastioni della città svizzera di Friburgo. Le tre torri sono raffigurate in altrettanti movimenti contras...

This beautiful and intense slow composition including lots of melodic and musical sequences is dedicated to Saint Francis-a figure whose life story has always impressed the composer. He had previously...

A Princess's Tale' is based on one of the best-known of all fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers with the original German title Schneewittchen. According to the mythologies the story actually took place...

A Princess's Tale' is based on one of the best-known of all fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers with the original German title Schneewittchen. According to the mythologies the story actually took place...

L'espressione 'groove' è spesso usata come un ampio ombrello sotto il quale si raccolgono vari stili ritmici caratteristici della musica afro-americana. Difatti, quasi ogni ritmo ballabile è chiamato...

This piece came about as a Christmas gift for Valentin, the composers' youngest son. Valentin-more commonly Valentine in English-is also the patron saint of lovers. He is said to have been a poor prie...

This piece came about as a Christmas gift for Valentin, the composers' youngest son. Valentin-more commonly Valentine in English-is also the patron saint of lovers. He is said to have been a poor prie...

Modern Austria has been shaped by various historic events over the last 100 years. In his piece Austrian Fantasy, composer Gerald Oswald works various motifs of the three different Austrian national a...

The 'Woodstock der Blasmusik' (Woodstock for Wind Music) is a four-day open air festival that has taken place annually over the last weekend in June in the Upper Austrian community of Ort im Innkreis...

The 'Woodstock der Blasmusik' (Woodstock for Wind Music) is a four-day open air festival that has taken place annually over the last weekend in June in the Upper Austrian community of Ort im Innkreis...

Canzone della gratitudine è stata scritta per un vecchio amico. Molte amicizie nate in giovane età durano per tutta la vita e costituiscono una sorta di filo conduttore per tutta l'esistenza. In quest...

Song of Gratitude was written for an old friend. Many friendships that start off at a young age last for life and thus form a sort of connecting thread throughout one's existence. In this particular w...

General Sherman is a giant sequoia situated in the Sequoia National Park, in California. The naturalist James Wolverton named it in homage to the famous American general William Tecumseh Sherman. The...

General Sherman is a giant sequoia situated in the Sequoia National Park, in California. The naturalist James Wolverton named it in homage to the famous American general William Tecumseh Sherman. The...

La samba è una danza fluida dal ritmo rapido, se non indiavolato, caratterizzata da un movimento regolare. La samba mormora, si muove e si scatena come gli elementi della natura, in perenne movimento....

Konzertante Marschparade von Franz Watz mit den interessanten Themen der Julius-Fuciks-Märsche.

Carl Teike (1864-1922) is one of the greatest composers of march music, being especially remembered for his traditional marches Alte Kameraden (Old Companions) and Graf Zeppelin. Both marches are well...

A wind music federation from Upper Austria commissioned Thomas Doss to compose Il Briccone, the Italian word for scoundrel. It is an elegant concert march which combines light ironic elements with vir...

This work describes the development of a local village band as it grows in both size and ability to become a symphonic wind band. It is dedicated to all orchestras that follow the same, sometimes hard...