Mitropa Concertwork Series

Europe`s broad cultural heritage is a valuable possession that should be protected. We stand before the enormous challenge of creating a unity of East and West while at the same time maintaining the l...

La città di Guflina, nel Liechtenstein, offre uno dei migliori punti di osservazione delle magnifiche Alpi. Si dice che sotto la sporgenza ci fosse una grotta nella montagna. In essa viveva un terribi...

Composed in commemoration of the 2006 Football World Cup. The World Cup is a global event that only takes place every four years and that is preceded by a number of qualifying rounds. In the actual ev...

Cantus ist das lateinische Wort für Gesang - und dieses Stück ist eine in melodiöse, gesangliche Musik umgesetzte Meditation. Es soll dazu motivieren, in sich zu gehen, abzuschalten und sich von der M...

Trumpets and Bridges was composed to celebrate the opening ofa new bridge linking Austria with Germany. This bridge is a symbolfor the meeting of cultures and the lifting of borders. In the thirdmille...

This work was commissioned by the Musikkapelle Heiden, Germany, on the occasion of the centenary of this versatile and energetic music society. Triumphal Prelude begins with fireworks of sounds and fa...

The Black River Overture was commissioned by the music society Pfarrkapelle Schwarzenbach, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Schwarzenbach literally means 'black brook' - hence the title of the...

The book The Idol of the Flies by Jane Rice (1913-2005) is a classicof horror literature. It is the story of a child who, in an incredibleseries of cruel actions, persecutes those around him. The comp...

The book The Idol of the Flies by Jane Rice (1913-2005) is a classicof horror literature. It is the story of a child who, in an incredibleseries of cruel actions, persecutes those around him. The comp...

This joyous fanfare offers many members of the band the opportunityto shine. The opening subject is passed from the clarinets to thesaxophones and then to the oboes before being taken up by thecomplet...

Romania boasts an endless wealth of folk music and culture. Whilethe music of the north still sounds familiar to West-European ears, it becomes gradually faster and fierier towards the south. The sixm...

Romania boasts an endless wealth of folk music and culture. Whilethe music of the north still sounds familiar to West-European ears, it becomes gradually faster and fierier towards the south. The sixm...

Jolly Roger ist der Name der berühmt-berüchtigten Totenkopf-Fahne der Piraten. Die Fahne wurde während der Jagd auf Beute gehisst, um unter der Besatzung des Beuteschiffes schon vor dem eigentlichen E...

Jolly Roger ist der Name der berühmt-berüchtigten Totenkopf-Fahne der Piraten. Die Fahne wurde während der Jagd auf Beute gehisst, um unter der Besatzung des Beuteschiffes schon vor dem eigentlichen E...

Franco Cesarini has used four anonymous renaissance pieces as the basis for this four-movement composition, and, by exploiting the many colours of the brass band, he has recreated the atmosphere of th...

Questa brillante composizione di Otto M. Schwarz riflette la vita avventurosa del personaggio storico Napoleone Bonaparte. Probabilmente il francese più conosciuto di tutti i tempi, sviluppò un eccezi...

Mit Bonaparte hat Otto M. Schwarz nach Erfolgen, wie Man in the Ice, The Count of Monte Cristo und Nostradamus, ein weiteres großes programmatisches Werk für Blasorchester geschaffen. Dieses Mal nahm...

Tali is a thirteen-year-old Israeli girl who has grown up amidst the religious conflicts between Palestinians, Christians, and Jews. Thomas Doss was so touched by a poem she wrote, he decided to set i...

A Triumphant Fanfare ist - wie der Name schon sagt - eine triumphale, majestätische Fanfare. In dieser neuen Komposition von Franco Cesarini dürfen die die Blechbläser brillieren, die Holzbläser mit L...

Mantova è per chi la conosce una bella città lombarda. Per gli abitanti del Tirolo è però una città particolare dove fu giustiziato Andreas Hofer (1767-1810), eroe nazionale della resistenza e dell'in...

Mantova è per chi la conosce una bella città lombarda. Per gli abitanti del Tirolo è però una città particolare dove fu giustiziato Andreas Hofer (1767-1810), eroe nazionale della resistenza e dell'in...

Die 'Botschafter des Lichts' in dieser Komposition sind einmal die funkelnde Pracht von Swarowski-Kristallen, die drei Grazien Aglaia (Glanz), Euphrosyne (Frohsinn) und Thalia (Glück) aus der griechis...

Questi "quadri di città" non vogliono tanto evocare immagini visive, quanto piuttosto un quadro d'atmosfera di una grande città moderna. La musica riflette gli stati d'animo della vita contemporanea e...

Molte persone ricordano vividamente il 18 gennaio 2007. Il servizio meteorologico diede l'allarme per l'imminente tempesta del secolo e iniziò a delinearsi lo scenario peggiore. L'uragano Kyrill ha la...

Am 18. Januar 2007 warnte der Wetterbericht vor einem Jahrhundertereignis - und der angekündigte Orkan Kyrill sollte tatsächlich Tote, Verletzte und einen enormen Sachschaden hinterlassen. Otto M. Sch...