Spartiti medio per orchestra

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While studying at Harvard University he conducted the university symphonic band. In 1936 he was engaged as arranger with the famous 'Bo...

The beaches of Rio de Janeiro are almost as famous all over the world as the Brasilian music with its typical characteristics. The population is an amalgam of several races: white people, black people...

The Canadian composer Legrady, born in Hungary, wrote this fine suite with three famous mediterrenean holiday resorts in mind.He was successively inspired by the Monte Carlo Casino, the Greek isle of...

A lot of composers, such as Brahms, Rachmaninov, Lutoslavski and many others used the Caprice nr.24 for violin solo by Paganini, to write a series of variations. This time that favourite theme has bee...

This parade, extremely well suited for wind band, is a succession of themes amalgamated into a medley and reminding major sequences of an imaginary musical. Conductor and musicians come to the fore.

After the popsongs from the musicals Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera an Starlight Express by the talented London composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) here is a selection o...

Here we have a beautiful and relaxed melody which is gradually supported by classical ornaments.

Though composed as a simple unpretentious little work, this 'Fandango Fantasy' sounds somewhat virtuoso. The slow middlepart makes us think of the plendid piano pieces by the Spanish composer Isaac Al...

The French composer Adam is famous for his operas such as, 'Le Roi d'Yvetot', 'La Poupée de Nuremberg' and 'Si j'étais Roi'. The overtures of most of these operas are still often performed by wind ban...

If you did not see the movie picture 'Dances with Wolves' you really missed something. It is a splendid film with magnificent music by john barry. The picture was awarded no less than seven oscars, am...

Johann Strauß Junior wrote this 'Perpetuum Mobile' opus 257 in 1861, inspired by a grand Viennese Ball. This event had been announced as a 'Carnival Perpetuum Mobile' with non-stop dancing and music....

The American soul music group 'Earth, Wind and Fire', set up in 1970 by singer and drummer Maurice Whitney, started a real international career from 1975 onwards. Especially the brass players were foc...