Baton Orchestral

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Egyptischer Marsch Opus 335 is a beautiful...

Entry March of the Boyars, composed in 1895 by the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen, has been a popular orchestral favorite ever since and one of the best-known examples of Scandinavian orchestral m...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. His polka opus 332 'Eljen a Magyar!' (Hungaria...

Julius Fucík era un compositore ceco, con oltre 400 marce, polke e valzer a suo nome. Poiché la maggior parte del suo lavoro era destinato alle bande militari, è talvolta conosciuto come il "Sousa boe...

Julius Fucík was a Czech composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the "Bohemian Sousa". Today his marches...

Johann Schrammel (1850 1893) was an Austrian composer and musician. In 1878 he founded with his brother Josef Schrammel and Anton Strohmayer a trio; they were later joined by the clarinettist Georg Da...

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. The Homage March is one of the...

Julius Fucík was a Czech composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the 'Bohemian Sousa'. Today his marches...

Le Villi ("Le Volpi" o "Le Fate") è un'opera-balletto in due atti e il primo lavoro teatrale di Puccini. I tre movimenti orchestrali - parte sinfonica - dell'opera, "Preludio", "L'Abbandano" e "La Tre...

Le Villi ("Le Volpi" o "Le Fate") è un'opera-balletto in due atti e il primo lavoro teatrale di Puccini. I tre movimenti orchestrali - parte sinfonica - dell'opera, "Preludio", "L'Abbandano" e "La Tre...

Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

The Viennese composer Johann Strauss jr. (1825 - 1899) composed besides his famous waltzes and operettas also a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees'...

La "Polka Fledermaus" è uno dei sei arrangiamenti di danza su temi tratti dall'operetta "Die Fledermaus" di Johann Strauss. Fu presentata per la prima volta nel 1874 al Theater an der Wien e, secondo...

Strauss compose l'"Annen-Polka" nel 1852 per celebrare il giorno di Sant'Anna. Questa polka fu molto popolare fin dalla sua prima esecuzione nel 1852, quando i giornali viennesi riportarono quanto seg...

Emmerich Kálmán's most beloved operetta 'Die Csárdásfürstin' had its first performance at the Vienna 'Johann Strauss-Theater' in November 1915. Only in the German speaking countries it was performed 5...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give h...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give h...

Emmerich Kálmán's most beloved operetta 'Die Csárdásfürstin' had its first performance at the Vienna 'Johann Strauss-Theater' in November 1915. Only in the German speaking countries it was performed 5...

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...

Dell'oratorio "Elias" di Mendelssohn il Times ha detto: "Non c'è mai stato un trionfo più completo - mai un riconoscimento più completo e rapido di una grande opera d'arte". Il libretto di Elia è abil...

Nel 1869, Josef Strauss trascorse l'estate insieme al fratello Johann a Pavlovsk, vicino a San Pietroburgo. Quando si riprese da una malattia, scrisse una polka veloce particolarmente incalzante e die...

Tristsch Tratsch era una rivista satirica di Vienna. Nel 1858 pubblicò un profilo di Johann Strauss: si temeva, si diceva, che le stagioni concertistiche di Strauss in Russia e lo sviluppo del suo sti...