Baton Music

Cantique de Jean Racine ist eine Komposition von Gabriel Fauré. Der Text, "Verbe égal au Très-Haut" ("Wort, eins mit dem Höchsten"), ist eine französische Paraphrase von Jean Racine eines lateinischen...

Allegro barbaro, komponiert im Jahr 1911, ist eines der berühmtesten und am häufigsten gespielten Soloklavierstücke von Béla Bartók. Die Komposition ist typisch für Bartóks Stil, denn sie verwendet vo...

Allegro barbaro, komponiert im Jahr 1911, ist eines der berühmtesten und am häufigsten gespielten Soloklavierstücke von Béla Bartók. Die Komposition ist typisch für Bartóks Stil, denn sie verwendet vo...

Cantique de Jean Racine ist eine Komposition von Gabriel Fauré. Der Text, "Verbe égal au Très-Haut" ("Wort, eins mit dem Höchsten"), ist eine französische Paraphrase von Jean Racine eines lateinischen...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1802-1803 his opus 48, 'Sechs Lieder (nach Gedichten von Gellert)' for voice and piano. The fourth song is 'Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur' which became very popular an...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1802-1803 his opus 48, 'Sechs Lieder (nach Gedichten von Gellert)' for voice and piano. The fourth song is 'Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur' which became very popular an...

Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

The Two Christmas Songs, 'Weihnachtsschnee' and 'Weihnachts Wiegenlied' are just beautiful examples of Edvard Grieg's craftsmanship as a songwriter. (Solo Voice and Concert Band)

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. In t...

Felix Mendelssohn composed the Marsch in D major opus 108 to celebrate a visit of the painter Cornelius to the city of Dresden in april 1841. (Concert Band)

The chorus Jauchzet Frohlocket! is the very beginning of the first part of Bach's Christmas Oratoria: 'Am erster Weihnachts-feiertage'. (Choir and Concert Band) The choir parts (4 exemplars) are inclu...

The plot of Sullivan's Operetta The Mikado tells the story of Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan and the young girl Yum-yum. The song ' The sun, whose rays are all ablaze' is sung by Yum-yum at the...

The plot of Sullivan's Operetta The Mikado tells the story of Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan and the young girl Yum-yum. The Trio Three little maids from school is sung in the first act by Yum-...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The overture is firmly in the tradition established by Rossini and ev...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The overture is firmly in the tradition established by Rossini and ev...

As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif his...

As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif his...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppe and Karl Millöcker were t...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. Like the famous polka Donner und Blitz, the Tick-Tack Polka opus 365 i...

The fourth movement (Finale) of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's fifth symphony, beginning and ending as a triumphal march, might be thought to represent the victory of the will, since the fate theme of the...

Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein wird von Fürst Orlovsky im zweiten Akt der "Fledermaus" gesungen: Er selbst ist von seinem Reichtum permanent gelangweilt, besteht aber darauf, dass sich seine Gäste auf se...

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 ist das Finale der Operette "Die Fledermaus". (2 Soprane, 2 Mezzosoprane, 2 Tenöre, 2 Baritone, Chor und Orchester)