Martin Bernreuther

Berlioz considered it very important that listeners should understand the program of the cycle of five movements which made make up his most famous 'Symphonie Fantastique', so he insisted that audienc...

Percy Grainger's extraordinary scoring skills permeate this classic, carefree work for symphonic band. Children's March: 'Over the Hills and Far Away', originally a piano solo, was orchestrated by the...

Grainger's 'Youthful Suite' for orchestra was compiled in the 1940's. He felt that movement 1, NORTHERN MARCH to be 'North-English or Scottish' in character owing to its melodic material and rhythms....

trombone and piano Vademecum was commissioned by the Metropole Brass Brand and dedicated to Geert De Vos. The concerto is an ode to three distinct facets of the bass trombone: its dark, harsh and aggr...

13 Variationen über ein bekanntes Volkslied im Stile berühmter MEister

Also titled 'Der alte Brummbar' (The Old Grumbling Bear). By Julius Fucik, justifiably called the 'Czech March King', this 'polka comique' came to the attention of the editor when he began searching f...

For trombone ensemble (1 alto/tenor tromb - 5 tenor tromb - 2 bass tromb) Wim Bex wrote this piece commissioned by Sandor Hendriks as a tribute to a friend/colleague trombonist Frans Theeuwen, who unf...

solo trombone and piano (reduction from solo trombone and wind band) During the conceptual process the composer kept seeing the journey of a soul through this lifetime on earth and he felt the need to...

solo trombone and wind band During the conceptual process the composer kept seeing the journey of a soul through this lifetime on earth and he felt the need to translate it into music. He wrote it in...

For tuba and concert band Hybris describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous over-confidence. It often indicates a loss of contact with realiy and an overestimation of o...