Baton Music

The Viennese composer Johann Strauss jr. (1825 - 1899) composed besides his famous waltzes and operettas also a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees'...

The trio 'so muss allein ich bleiben' from the operetta Die Fledermaus is sung in the first act: Gabriel von Eisenstein is due to leave for prison and his wife Rosalinde acts to be sad about it. Meanw...

Im Feuerstrom der Reben is the very final of the second act of the Operetta Die Fledermaus. (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Choir and Concert Band)

O Fledermaus, o Fledermaus' is the very final of the Operetta Die Fledermaus. (2 Sopanos, 2 Mezzo Sopranos, 2 Tenors, 2 Baritones, Choir and Concert Band)

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Brüderlein und Schwesterlein is the very final of the second act: at the end of Prince Orlofsky's party Dr. Falke proposes to sing a song of praise to the brotherhood of the assembled company. (2 Sopa...

Täubchen das entflattert ist is the very beginning of Die Fledermaus: At Eisenstein's house the singer Alfred, in love with Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde, is heard serenading Rosalinde. Adele, the maid,...

Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky composed his Marche Slave in five days in the fall of 1876, completing the score on October 7 (and beginning his Symphonic Fantasia Francesca da Rimini the same day).It's mayb...

Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, the composer conducted the orchestra of...

Scherzo d'apres une ballade de Goethe Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, t...

This movement from Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite is very suitable for an intermezzo or as a final in your concert program. But as an encore the March of the Dwarfs will absolutely charm your audience! Th...

Every year, Pomp and Circumstance (March no.1) is one of the encore's at the Last Night of the Proms in London: without any doubt, it's Edward Elgar's most populair work. (Concert Band)

Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. From 1893 til...

Gangar is the second movement of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite: a Norwegian march in an easy mood. (Concert Band)

George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

Die lustige Witwe, composed by Franz Franz Lehar is one of the absolute highlights in the whole operetta-repertoire. The duet Lippen schweigen - Love unspoken - is a waltz in a very romantic. This tra...

Die lustige Witwe, composed by Franz Franz Lehar is one of the absolute highlights in the whole operetta-repertoire. The duet Lippen schweigen - Love unspoken - is a waltz in a very romantic. This tra...

The name 'Pathetique' for the last of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's six symphonies was suggested by the composer's brother the day after its premiere in 1893. And indeed the 'Finale' of this symphony is...

The African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed his opera Treemonisha in 1910 but it was not performed in its entirety until 1970, when the piano score was rediscovered. The music of Treem...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The polka-mazurka Stadt und Land, Opus 322 is a beautiful example of S...

Tenor ana Concert Band. Paganini was the first Lehar operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Pagan...

Paganini was the first Lehar operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Crown Imperial is an orchestral march by the English composer William Walton. It was first performed at the coronation of King George VI in 1937, and substantially revised in 1963. Walton composed the...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...