Spartiti medio di Molenaar Edition

Peter Laine has got a long and rich career with entertainment (and more serious) music. His experience, with a.o. the famous Swiss ensemble 'Hazy Osterwald Sextett' and several bands and radio orchest...

The American pianist and composer Cy Coleman(1929) is certainly best known as the author of several musical comedies such as Wildcat (1960), Sweet Charity (1966), Seesaw (1973) and of course Barnum (1...

(Rhapsody from Friesland)Friesland (Fryslân in the Frisian language) does not only have its own language but it also boasts a very rich own culture with many folk songs sometimes dating from many cent...

Josef Strauß, the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, worked for some time as an architect and engineer before he started conducting to replace his elder brother Johann Junior who had become seriously...

The Jim Croce hit streak began in 1972, with 'You don't mess around with Jim' en 'Operator then'.in April 1973, he introduced his most famous character, 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'. A swinging evergreen, b...

The German police television series in which actor Horst Tappart plays the role of 'Inspector Derrick' is still extremely popular in numerous European countries, even after 23 years. There have 280 ep...

The slow 'Airs' are a Ted Huggens speciality. LARGO ALLA BAROCCO is written completely in the style of the majestic 'Air from the New Baroque Suite' which was a worldwide success. At the end an ad lib...

The once extremely popular American group 'The Village People' released its first album 'San Francisco' in 1977. The next year two more albums came, 'Macho Man' and 'YMCA', followed in 1979 by 'Go Wes...

Giulio Caccini's 'Ave Maria' has been one the most often played tunes at funerals. In 2001 it was used for the soundtrack of the movie picture 'Donnie Darko'. Here is a most pleasant and skilful arran...

Dámaso Pérez Prado defined the mambo as 'merely an Afro-Cuban rhythm with a flavour of American swing'. In the 1950's he became also a star in the USA where he was considered as 'The Mambo King'.

The associated artists Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II played a prominent role in the history of the American musical. Their collaboration started in 1943 and resulted immediately in the big...

This is a brand new original arrangement of this famous Gershwin march with optional part for vocal soloist. George Gershwin (Brooklyn, 1898 - Hollywood, 1937) is not only the composer of 'Rhapsody in...

This rhapsody for solo quintet and band has been composed especially for bands of the honour's division boasting 2 oboes, one cor anglais and 2 bassoons. The classical dance forms played by the quinte...

Mandalay, the cultural capital of Burma, was very seriously damaged by bombings of the Allied Forces during the Second World War. 'The Road to Mandalay' has been a kind of oriental symbol, which was a...

Here is another fine arrangement by Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) in true big band style of the famous tune composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. A dialogue between the expressive, classical flute...