Baton Music

Just seeing its title, the "Swips-Lied" ("Tipsy Song") may not be immediately familiar. But hearing just one bar of it, it's the "Annen-Polka" with a vocal part in which a proper Victorian-era lady fi...

In a life spanning almost ninety-five years, Stolz wrote in excess of 2000 songs, dances and marches, as well as the music for more than 50 stage works, 60 films and 19 ice revues. The song 'Du sollst...

In a life spanning almost ninety-five years, Stolz wrote in excess of 2000 songs, dances and marches, as well as the music for more than 50 stage works, 60 films and 19 ice revues. The song 'Du sollst...

Sigurd Jorsalfar" is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The complete suite is in nine p...

Die Arie "Die Frist ist um" wird von "dem Holländer" gleich zu Beginn von Richard Wagners Oper "Der fliegende Holländer" gesungen: Auf der Heimreise wird Kapitän Daland durch stürmisches Wetter gezwun...

Die Arie "Die Frist ist um" wird von "dem Holländer" gleich zu Beginn von Richard Wagners Oper "Der fliegende Holländer" gesungen: Auf der Heimreise wird Kapitän Daland durch stürmisches Wetter gezwun...

In 1876, Grieg created incidental music for the premiere of Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt", at the request of the author. Many of the pieces from this work became very popular in the form of orchestral suit...

The Last Rose of Summer ist ein Gedicht des irischen Dichters Thomas Moore, das 1805 in der Grafschaft Kilkenny, Irland, geschrieben wurde. Es ist auf eine traditionelle Melodie namens 'Aislean an Oig...

The Last Rose of Summer ist ein Gedicht des irischen Dichters Thomas Moore, das 1805 in der Grafschaft Kilkenny, Irland, geschrieben wurde. Es ist auf eine traditionelle Melodie namens 'Aislean an Oig...

Friedrich von Flotows (1812-1883) Oper 'Martha' war bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein sehr bekannt. Nur die Arie 'Ach! so fromm, ach so traut' wird heute noch immer von vielen Tenören gesungen.

Friedrich von Flotows (1812-1883) Oper 'Martha' war bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein sehr bekannt. Nur die Arie 'Ach! so fromm, ach so traut' wird heute noch immer von vielen Tenören gesungen.

The 'Furioso-Polka' opus 260 is a fast polka by Johann Strauss jr. which was performed for the first time in Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg, at a charity concert in 1861. The brilliant orchestration of...

The 'Furioso-Polka' opus 260 is a fast polka by Johann Strauss jr. which was performed for the first time in Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg, at a charity concert in 1861. The brilliant orchestration of...

Als Komponist begann Lehár mit Beiträgen zum Operngenre, doch der große Triumph seiner ersten Operette "Die lustige Witwe" im Jahr 1905 machte ihm klar, dass er seine Talente der Operette widmen musst...

Als Komponist begann Lehár mit Beiträgen zum Operngenre, doch der große Triumph seiner ersten Operette "Die lustige Witwe" im Jahr 1905 machte ihm klar, dass er seine Talente der Operette widmen musst...

The aria 'Infelice! e tuo credevi' is sung by Silva at the end of the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Ernani: Silva has entered his niece and fiancee Elvira's room to find both Ernani and Carlo i...

The aria "Infelice! e tuo credevi" is sung by Silva at the end of the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Ernani: Silva has entered his niece and fiancee Elvira's room to find both Ernani and Carlo i...

The aria 'Vecchia zimarra' is sung by Colline at the end of the fourth act of Puccini's opera 'La Bohème': After Mimi has collapsed on the staircase to the attic room, she is carried into the room. On...

The aria 'Vecchia zimarra' is sung by Colline at the end of the fourth act of Puccini's opera 'La Bohème': After Mimi has collapsed on the staircase to the attic room, she is carried into the room. On...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra' was first in 1857. Only after a revision in 1880 with new texts by Arrigo Boito, the librettist of 'Otello', the Opera became a success and is even played now...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra' was first in 1857. Only after a revision in 1880 with new texts by Arrigo Boito, the librettist of 'Otello', the Opera became a success and is even played now...

Johann Strauss" Operetta "Die Fledermaus" belongs to his finest works and is the most successful operetta ever. Even nowadays "Die Fledermaus" is performed - especially around New Year's Day - all aro...

Bela Bartoks komponierte 1915 seine 'Rumänischen Volkstänze' ursprünglich für Klavier. Erst später bearbeitete er die kurzen Klavierstücke für Kammermusikensemble.

Bela Bartoks komponierte 1915 seine 'Rumänischen Volkstänze' ursprünglich für Klavier. Erst später bearbeitete er die kurzen Klavierstücke für Kammermusikensemble.

Johannes Brahms composed the 'Variations on a theme by Haydn' in the summer of 1873. The theme Brahms used was entitled 'Chorale St. Antoni' and attributed to the composer Joseph Haydn. But subsequent...