Baton Orchestral

Il Danzon n. 2 del compositore messicano Arturo Marquez è stato incluso nel programma dell'Orchestra Giovanile Simon Bolivar del Venuzuela, diretta da Gustavo Dudamel, durante la tournée del 2007 in E...

The Wasps' is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was based on Aristophane's ancient Greek comedy 'The Wasps' for a production at Trinity College, Camb...

La Gazza Ladra di Rossini è un melodramma o "opera semiseria" in due atti su libretto di Giovanni Gherardini basato su "La pie voleuse" di Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubigny e Louis-Charles Caigniez...

Danzón no. 2 by the Mexican composer Arturo Márquez was included on the program of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venuzuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on their 2007 tour of Europe and the Unit...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

Although Franz Lehár became most known for his contribution to the operetta repertoire, he also composed a lot of marches. One of these is 'Piave induló' (Piave Marsch, Marche form the 106th Regiment)...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

The Toy Symphony, (Kinder-Sinfonie) was also published as Sinfonia Berchtolsgadensis because it was written for instruments that were manufactured in the toy industry of Berchtensgaden that flourished...

Ecce sacerdos magnus (Ecco un grande sacerdote), WAB 13, è un mottetto sacro del 1885 del compositore austriaco Anton Bruckner. Si tratta di un'ambientazione musicale dell'omonima antifona. L'opera è...

As a composer, Johann Strauss Sr. is probably less well known than his son Johann Strauss Jr., but his 'Radeztky March' is still one of the most popular pieces in classical music. Besides this march h...

In 1869 Johann Strauss composed the polka francaise 'Im Krapfenwald'l' ('In Krapfen's Woods'). It was originally titled 'Im Pawlowsk Walde' when first performed in Pavlovsk (Russia). Reportedly, sever...

L'opera più nota di Kurt Weill (1900-1950) è "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("Threepenny Opera") (1928), una rielaborazione de "L'opera del mendicante" di John Gay, scritta in collaborazione con Bertolt Brech...

Johann Strauss wrote the 'Russische Marsch-Fantasie' (Russian March Fantasy) for a tour to Russia in 1872. Because the tour was cancelled, the successful first performance of the march was held in Vie...

Nowadays, Carmen is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment because of the misunderstanding of the very realistic plot. C...

Die Moldau (Vltava) è il secondo movimento del ciclo di poemi sinfonici "Ma Vlast" del compositore ceco Bedrich Smetana. In questo brano, Smetana utilizza la pittura tonale per evocare i suoni di uno...

Johann Strauss jr. composed in 1864 the 'Persischer Marsch' (Persian March), Op. 289. It was dedicated this to his Majesty Nasir-ad-Din imperial Shah of Persia (1831-1896). The melody of the trio is t...

The Planets del compositore Gustav Holst è una suite orchestrale in sette movimenti in cui ogni movimento prende il nome da un pianeta del sistema solare e dal suo corrispondente carattere astrologico...

Besides operettas Franz Lehár also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems, marches and a number of waltzes. The most popular of these waltzes is 'Gold und Silber' (Gold and Silver) which he composed for Princ...

Alexandre Levy (1864 - 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazilian folklore and regional rhythms. In 1890 Al...

Hungarian Pictures, talvolta indicata anche come "Hungarian Sketches", è una suite per orchestra del compositore ungherese Béla Bartók. La suite consiste nell'orchestrazione di brevi pezzi per pianofo...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The famous polka Donner und Blitz is till today often used as interval...

Conga del Fuego Nuevo è stata inserita nel programma dell'Orchestra Giovanile Simón Bolívar del Venezuela diretta da Gustavo Dudamel e suonata in un concerto di Capodanno in Germania per Arte Televisi...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'anello del Nibelungo) è un ciclo di quattro opere epiche del compositore tedesco Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Le opere si basano vagamente su personaggi delle saghe norrene e...

Johann Strauss wrote the bubbling 'Champagne Polka' for his 1858 summer concert season in Pavlovsk, where its first performance took place on 12 August under the title of 'Ball-Champagner-Polka'. Stra...

Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (1851-1909) was a Spanish composer who wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas and is considered one of the most popu...