Una Furtiva Lagrima is a brilliant arrangement by Jacob de Haan, of the aria from Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) for concert band. The subject of this song is the powe...
Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...
In 1878, on a commission from his publisher, Anton n Dvorák wrote a series of eight Slavonic dances. Modelled on Johannes Brahms' famous Hungarian Dances, although in contrast to Brahms' work, Dvorák...
Addio Napoli is a medley of well-known Neapolitan melodies, including Torna a Surriento by Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937), Neapolitan Dance by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - which he used in hi...
This march, opus 470 in Johann Strauss the Younger's oeuvre, was dedicated to the k. u. k. (Royal) Infanterie-Regiment 'Hoch und Deutschmeister No. 4' on the occasion of its 200th anniversary. In 1896...
Der Elsässer Louis Adam (1758-1848) war ein französischer Komponist und Klaviervirtuose. Er war Klavierpädagoge und Autor einer berühmten Klavierschule und Vater des Pädagogen und Komponisten Adolphe...
Pie Jesu è la famosa aria per soprano e orchestra dal Requiem opus 48 che Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) scrisse nel 1887 due anni dopo la morte del padre e poco prima della morte della madre. Pie Jesu è u...
Un'introduzione di alcune battute ci accompagna nel giardino di un tempio in Manciuria, nel nord est della Cina. I segreti dei monaci e il profumo penetrante dell'incenso fanno da sottofondo ad una me...