Spartiti medio di Molenaar Edition

Let's go back to the fifties. As I have played as a musician at such famous places as Carrère and Maxim's in Paris and the Palm Beach in Cannes, I wanted to recreate the musical climate of that time....

Some musicians were complaining that in lighter music the 2nd cornets, 2nd and 3rd trombones and other players seldom had a tune to play. The composer resolved to put that right and has given the melo...

Noch ein ausgezeichnetes Arrangement von J. Hastreiter der eine gewisse Fachkenntnis zeigt. Hier gibt es ein sehr schöne Orchestrierung für Blasorchester von diesem leichten Unterhaltungswerk Ortolani...

Anthem is the most well known song from the popular musical 'CHESS' written by the male half of the Swedish pop group ABBA, Bjoern Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Anthem has been brought out as a separat...

This work was composed in the style of an Italian opera overture. The first part has a quick tempo and flashing dynamics, and contains some virtuoso passages. It has clearly been inspired by Rossini's...

This suite in three parts has been commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Defense on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of NATO. The first part is a festive fanfare in which you can briefly recog...

Joseph Strauß (Vienna 1827-1870), the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, was active as an engineer and an architect before getting in the wake of his illustrious father and brother. The Feuerfest Pol...

Here you have a swinging 'up-tempo' Boogie, the predecessor of rock and roll. The Boogie Woogie is a dance that was introduced in Europe by the American soldiers in the forties. This is an ideal piece...

The Italian composer Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870) was highly estimated by his contemporaries, even Liszt and Rossini praised him much. He wrote over 60 operas and was one of the 19th century operaco...

Michel Carros is the pen name chosen by a well-known Dutch wind band music composer to sign some compositions in the lighter vein. Among those compositions is this short but joyful piece 'The Happy Mi...

Bach arranged quite a lot of both his own music and that of others for all kind of instrumental combinations. Sometimes he also used the same tunes in several of his works. This 'Berceuse' (Lullaby) i...

Der in der mährischen Hauptstadt Brünn (Brno) beheimatete Leos Janßcek (1854-1928) erlangte erst im Alter internationale Anerkunnung. Sein Stil war seiner Zeit voraus. Anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstag...

This song became very popular when it was used in the famous movie picture 'Casablanca', starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. You will undoubtedly remember the final scene when Bogart, with a...

The songs composed by the American composer Stephen Foster have been 'evergreens' for over a hundred years now. In this selection we can hear successively: 'Jeannie with the light brown hair', 'Oh, Su...

England boasts an enormous treasure of folksongs, many of those being preserved and listed thanks to the efforts of Cecil Sharp (1859-1924). The composers Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Percy Grainger wer...

This optimistic message is the title of a popular song from the famous Monty Python film 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' (1979). Monty Python's Flying Circus was the name of a very popular British tele...

Among the some 1500 compositions by Johann Strauss Sr. and his three sons there are some 70 marches, 45 of them written by Johann Strauss Jr. He composed military marches, marches for students and eve...

In everyday life in Great Britain 'tea-time' plays a rather important role and this is what Jackson tried to suggest in this original wind band composition. Jackson was born in 1957 and graduated from...