Shaul Ben-meir

The orchestral version of the Suite No. 2 from L'Arlesienne was originally arranged and published in 1879, four years after Bizet's death. The suite consists of four movements: Pastorale, Intermezzo,...

The Moldau' is taken from a collection of six symphonic poems called 'Ma vlast' ('My Homeland'), composed by Bedrich Smetana between 1874 and 1879. The poem takes the listener down the course of the r...

The Valse is the second movement of Antonin Dvorak's 'Serenade for Strings,' composed in 1875. Said to have written the entire Serenade in only 12 days, the piece was premiered in Prague in December o...

An exciting transcription of the Bacchanale from Saint-Saens's opera Samson and Delilah, originally composed in 1877.

Two movements (Minuetto, Carillon) from the orchestral version of the Suite No. 1 from Georges Bizet's incidental music to L'Arlesienne.

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian originally composed incidental music to the play 'Masquerade' in 1941. Of all the material composed, it is best-known today as an orchestral suite consisting of five movements...

Aishe's Dance' is taken from the music written for the ballet 'Gayane' by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian. The ballet was originally produced in Yerevan, Armenia in 1939 under the title 'Happiness,' however,...

Edvard Grieg composed the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play, Peer Gynt, to be premiered along with the play in 1876. The first suite consists of four movements: Morning Mood, Death of Ase,...

Edvard Grieg composed the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play, Peer Gynt, to be premiered along with the play in 1876. The second suite consists of four movements, three of which have been ar...

Czardas is a composition by Italian composer Vittorio Monti, well-known for being a showpiece for violin. It was written in a rhapsodic style, reminiscent of the music of Hungarian gypsies. Here, it h...

The Three Gymnopedies of French composer Erik Satie were originally published in 1888. The first of the set, arranged here for flute ensemble, has become Satie's most well-known composition.

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor is more commonly referred to as the 'Unfinished Symphony.' Unlike most symphonies of that time, the symphony only consists of two movements, of which the And...

Sergei Prokofiev's 'Overture on Hebrew Themes' was originally composed in 1919 for a rather uncommon combination of instruments, a clarinet, string quartet and piano. The reason for this instrumentati...

The Ritual Fire Dance of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla is a movement from the incidental music he composed for the ballet 'El amor brujo.' The dance exists in a many different versions, including a...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his famous Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major in 1785. The second movement, arranged here for flute ensemble, with its simple and dreamlike melody has become one of the...

The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi are among the most recognizable pieces of all classical music. Originally composed as four violin concerti, Vivaldi originally published the works with accompanying...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor in 1788, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. Here, the first movement (Allegro molto) has been...

Little is known about Georg Philipp Telemann's Suite in A Minor. It may date from the first decade of the 18th century, but wasn't even published until 1936, when a general re-discovery of Telemann's...

The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi are among the most recognizable pieces of all classical music. Originally composed as four violin concerti, Vivaldi originally published the works with accompanying...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor in 1788, and it is one of two symphonies (out of 41) which he composed in a minor key. Here, the fourth movement (Allegro assai) has bee...

The Impresario (Der Schauspieldirektor), K. 486, is a comic opera (singspiel) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, set to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian theatre director. The entire work...

Abdelazer' was written in 1676 by British playwright Aphra Behn. Subsequently, composer Henry Purcell wrote incidental music for this play in 1695. The movements arranged here for flute ensemble are a...

Le tombeau de Couperin wurde ursprünglich als Suite für Klavier solo von Maurice Ravel komponiert. Sie wurde zwischen 1914 und 1917 geschrieben und besteht aus sechs Sätzen, die auf den Sätzen einer t...

Emmanuel Chabrier's orchestral rhapsody, España, is perhaps his most well-known composition, and it was premiered in Paris in 1883. Inspired by his travels to Spain during the previous year, the compo...