Brilliant Marches

Survivors è una marcia da concerto luminosa e intonata. La brillantezza degli ottoni, unita all'espressività dei fiati, conferisce a quest'opera una chiara modernità. È stata composta e dedicata ai fe...

Mercury is a concert march composed in a typically British idiom. In 1990, Jan Van der Roost wrote this piece on the occasion of the 15-year anniversary of his own band: Brass Band Midden Brabant. Lik...

Minerva by Jan Van der Roost was composed on the commission of the German 'Musikverein Braunshausen' on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the orchestra. The composition, first performed on Septe...

Citadel's Destiny' is a march that can be performed either in concert or on parade. It was commissioned by the Musique de l'Infanterie de Lille. A special feature is that it adheres to the conventiona...

Citadel's Destiny is a march that can be performed either in concert or on parade. It was commissioned by the Musique de l'Infanterie de Lille. A special feature is that it adheres to the conventional...

Lugano is an exciting concert march that Franco Cesarini composed for the Civica Filarmonica di Lugano, which Cesarini has been conducting since 1998. The idyllic location of the Ticinese city and the...

In the course of the two centuries following the death of Henry Purcell in 1695, no British composer of any statue was apparent. Consequently, the break-through of Edward Elgar (1857-1934) as an inter...

Minerva by Jan Van der Roost was composed on the commission of the German 'Musikverein Braunshausen' on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the orchestra. The composition, first performed on Septe...

Dieser originale Marsch orientiert sich an der Marschform, wie sie im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert von vielen Blasorchestern gespielt wurde. Sousas Stil wird zweifellos immer populär sein, ga...

Following in the footsteps of Ceremonial March, Mercury, Arsenal and Minerva, Helios is a concert march in the tradition of grand English marches. In the first passage several connected themes are dev...

Everest is the name of a restaurant on the 40th floor of a skyscraper in Chicago. In 2003 the composer Jacob de Haan had dinner there together with his publishers and other fellow composers. The idea...

This concert march is a tribute to the 'pioneers' in the world of brass music in the Lowlands of Netherlands, the original founders of the bands and the people who take the lead in organising the soci...

This piece was composed in the summer of 2000, on commission of the Whightull Wind Ensemble. Seaside Road is a march in two-four time. The work begins with a tempestuous sound, followed by a light pas...

John Blanken composed his traditional style concert march Liberty was composed in 2004. The first performance took place during a concert in which the theme was the struggle for independence and durin...

This concert march does not begin with flourishing trumpets or loud tutti sounds: Jupiter opens refreshingly with percussion instruments and the 'high woodwinds'. This original introduction is followe...

From the first bars the stately character of this solemn, yet celebratory, march is clearly heard. The introduction of the main theme takes place in the medium register, immediately resulting in a nob...

Klaas van der Woude has based his arrangement An Old Swedish Hymn on an old pastoral hymn from Dalarna. This beautiful melody even attracted ABBA as they used it as the opening music for some of their...

Like previous marches by Jan Van der Roost (Mercury, Arsenal, Helios, Minerva, Artemis, Montana...) the overall character of Apollo is rather stately and noble. Broad themes and a lyrical trio melody...

Albastum is a proud, stately concert march written in classic A-B-A form. It opens with a festive fanfare in the brass section, followed by a lively, bright theme, symbolising the joy of playing music...

Satoshi Yagisawa ha composto oltre cento brani per fi ati, ma solamente quattro marce, tra le quali ricordiamo le acclamate March Willing and Able e March Bou Shu, la prima basata su musica corale, la...

Questa marcia da concerto è stata composta in onore, ma anche per incoraggiare e sostenere i vigili del fuoco che salvano le vite dei cittadini, spesso mettendo a rischio la propria incolumità. Le mel...

La Trattamars è stata originariamente scritta per 'Il Trattamento miracolo', un ensemble di cinque elementi che hanno nel loro repertorio musica leggera apprezzata da giovani e meno giovani. Questa ma...

La Trattamars è stata originariamente scritta per 'Il Trattamento miracolo', un ensemble di cinque elementi che hanno nel loro repertorio musica leggera apprezzata da giovani e meno giovani. Questa ma...

Una marcia da concerto nella tradizione di grandi composizioni di Jan Van der Roost quali Mercury, Arsenal, Helios, Jupiter, Apollo e Minerva. Il ritmo in levare conferisce alla composizione un caratt...