Spartiti medio di Molenaar Edition

This tune was the closing music on the British comedy tv series, 'The Benny Hill Show', where the host was often on the run being pursued by cheated cast members, and was composed by the American saxo...

Light piece in three parts, each one picking up distinct parts of north-american music appreciated by Afonso Alves. The swing, the 60's with Elvis Presley and the disco hype are all remembered in this...

This piece was number one on the dutch hit parade for many weeks and was sung b Raffaëla, winner of the Idols 2006 contest

Ramses Shaffy is one of the greatest and most popular singers The Netherlands have known in the 20th century but he had never been honoured with any arrangement for wind band of his songs. At last, th...

This is the first great hit (and the last as well) of Mink De Ville. This group was lead by singer and lyricist Willy De Ville. He started a solo career about 1990 with the guitar player of the group...

Here you have a fine, rhythmically supported melody in a nice arrangement for wind band. This piece will bring a moment of relief on your next concert program.

Several artists such as Incognito, John Legend and Trijntje Oosterhuis have made a cover of this great classic by the inimitable Stevie Wonder. The film 'Hitch' starring Will Smith used this music as...

Referring somehow to Ted Huggens's composition 'Choral and Rock out', Patrick Millstone composed 'Salt and Pepper'. As you find salt and pepper on each restaurant table, we advise conductors and techn...

Thinking Of You, composed in 1992, was Eric Swiggers's very first piece for windband that has officially been published. Especially in the 90's the piece has been performed many times all over the wor...

'Festiva Jubiloso' was commissioned by the Surugadai University Symphonic of the city of Saitama in Japan to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its annual concert. In the central part we can hear some...

'Streetlife' was a huge hit in 1979 for the singer Randy Crawford. This was her breakthrough into stardom with the R and B group the Crusaders, where this was the title track of the album. This song h...

Eloise was a hit song in the 60's from the brothers Paul and Barry Ryan. This is a melodramatic, orchestral number, typified by energetic refrains, and a slow intimate section. This is a powerful, fre...

With these two 'breaks' Patrick Millstone killed two birds with one stone. You can conclude the first part of your concert with 'Have a break' and start again after the interval with 'Break Away'.

For Bedrich Smetana, the polka was the source of typical Czech music par excellence. We do not only find it in his operas, symphonic works and chamber music, but he also wrote single or separate polka...

At the recording sessions for his album 'Disco Baby' (1975) Van McCoy had one extra hour of studio time left and so he wrote 'The Hustle' in a hurry, as a well-known New York disc jockey had told McCo...

In this suite you can hear a musical portrait of people born under the zodiacal signs 'Virgin' (Virgo), 'Twins' (Gemini), 'Fishes' (Pisces) and 'Archer' (Sagittarius). As usual with astrological expla...

Crimson Tide' is the title of an American movie picture dating from 1995 with a splendid soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer. The latter was awarded a Grammy as well as the BMI Film Music Award for the...

With this medley 'Boudewijn' arranger Gerhart Drijvers pays a tribute to one of the greatest composers of original Dutch songs. Indeed, in collaboration with Lennaert Nijgh, Boudewijn de Groot wrote n...

The march Wind in May (Vento di Maggio) was composed to celebrate the famous 'Festa dei Ceri' in Gubbio (Umbria), one of the oldest Italian folklore display. This is a solemn act of devotion towards t...

Danse des Sauvages' (Dance of the Savages) is an excerpt from the ballet opera 'Les Indes Galantes' (The Courtly Indies). Rameau was one of the most important French composers (1683 - 1764). He wrote...

After the successful compositions 'Cassiopeia' and 'The Transit of Venus', Carlos Marques has written another fine composition 'Mumadona Dias'. This piece boasts some theatrical characteristics: a sol...

Sir Elgar wrote his Pomp and Circumstance March no. 2 in 1901 and it was dedicated to fellow composer Granville Bantock. This second march is less well known than the first, but not because it is any...