Spartiti medio per Banda

L'idea di comporre questo brano è venuta a Philip Sparke leggendo un articolo sulla filosofi a cinese che si basa su cicli di cinque elementi, fasi e stadi di cambiamento. A Sparke interessavano in pa...

The work opens with a stern fanfare in bare fifths, which leads to a cantabile theme introduced by alto saxophone. This builds to a climax and reintroduces the fanfare, which slowly evolves into the s...

With Clouds Descending is a fantasy on the powerful Advent hymn Helmsley which is long associated with another Advent hymn - Wesley's Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending. The hymn tune is divided into...

Highdays and Holidays was commissioned by the South Berks Concert Band to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2016. The band rehearses in the village of Mortimer, which has a long and fascinating histor...

Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel' was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, Ad Excel, is a play on words: it is Latin for 'to...

Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel' was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, Ad Excel, is a play on words: it is Latin for 'to...

Watch Your Step! was commissioned by Stadtmusik Biel from Switzerland and is dedicated to the mayor of Biel/Bienne, Erich Fehr. The title was chosen to represent Biel as the watch-making capital of Sw...

Questo famoso brano del compositore svizzero Franco Cesarini è un modo festoso per iniziare il concerto.

Showdown for Band was written as a compulsory exercise for the Third International Light Music Competition at St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1998. The intention of the composer was to write a piece in a l...

The triumphal march from Aida is probably one of the best known classical works of all times. This superb transcription by Franco Cesarini retains the exciting spirit of the original. As always his na...

This festive overture by the Austrian composer Thomas Doss, whose father was German, is intended to be a symbol of the friendship between Germany and Austria, and the countries that border on these tw...

Intrada è un brano di apertura lento e maestoso che svela la ricchezza della gamma sonora dell'orchestra di fiati. La dolce fluidità delle linee melodiche mette in evidenza la sonorità vellutata dei l...

The War of the Worlds (La guerra dei mondi) è universalmente noto come romanzo di H.G. Wells del 1898, nell'adattamento radiofonico di Orson Welles, come musical rock firmato Jeff Waynes, e anche per...

Festive brass fanfares, an attractive melody and a quiet chorale-like interlude, played by the woodwind section, are the main ingredients of this compelling concert opener by Gilbert Tinner. The livel...

Quest'opera è stata commissionata dalla Musikkapelle Heiden, in Germania, in occasione del centenario di questa versatile ed energica società musicale. Il Preludio trionfale inizia con fuochi d'artifi...

This joyous fanfare offers many members of the band the opportunityto shine. The opening subject is passed from the clarinets to thesaxophones and then to the oboes before being taken up by thecomplet...

Diese 'Bilder einer Stadt' wollen nicht so sehr visuale Bilder, sondern vielmehr ein Stimmungsbild einer modernen Großstadt heraufbeschwören. Die Musik spiegelt die Stimmungslagen des heutigen Lebens...

All the Best è un brano per banda particolarmente influenzato dalla musica pop, genere musicale che Otto M. Schwarz aveva già esplorato in Fire & Ice, Last Call e Funky Brass. Anche qui, il compositor...

The Imperial Royal State Railways was the first rail company in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Imperial Overture tells the tale of a tourist who visits Austria and travels by rail across Austria. During...

A composition of much contrast based on a well-known psalm melody. As its title announces, it starts with a majestic introduction in which parts of the psalm melody can be heard. Next we hear the comp...

A new era dawns-heralded by solemn brass fanfares. What does the future hold? In his work Overture to a New Age , Jan de Haan expresses on the one hand anticipation, on the other also an awareness tha...

Jan van der Roost's new work Jubilus will make an ideal opening piece for any event. It is in a classical ABA form, beginning with a rising brass fanfare which is quickly replaced by a contrasting exp...

Questo maestoso brano di apertura inizia su un passaggio sonoro grave e profondo dove echeggia un tema ampio e generoso, eseguito dagli ottoni gravi, su un movimento continuo delle percussioni. Poco a...

This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a majes...

The Banquet of Light is an easily accessible piece which takes its inspiration from ?light? both in terms of it representing good news and joy together with scenes inspired by light, such as a sunset...